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Tropical storm Kong-Rey, which has already dropped more than 500 millimeters of rain on Taiwan. The torrential rain caused a landslide in the southern city of Tainan. The spectacular slide on Saturday dislodged a boulder the size of one of the island's small apartments and sent it rolling downhill into busy traffic

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