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STORY: Signboards and debris could be seen strewn across the main tourist street leading to Taiwan’s famous southern Kenting beach on Thursday afternoon. Liu Hsieh-ta, a shop owner, said he had not slept Wednesday night. "We often get hit by typhoons in the Hengchun peninsula, but this typhoon was just too big, and it lasted for a long time." Another food truck owner Hsiao Chih-wen had been in Kenting for 17 years and he said this is the first time he had seen the tourist street in such bad shape. Koinu, a category four typhoon - indicating winds of up to 56mph - made landfall in Taiwan’s Hengchun peninsula on early Thursday morning, but is forecast to weaken as it crosses into the Taiwan Strait and heads toward the Chinese province of Guangdong, according to Tropical Storm Risk.
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