Manzhou Township's Changle Village Suspends Work and Classes on September 1; Shiwen Village and South Cross-Island Transport Watches Continue
Original Chinese title: 屏東滿州鄉長樂村9/1停止上班上課：列work-school / watch；士文村與南橫交通watch持續
At 00:08:23 on September 1, the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration added Changle Village in Pingtung County's Manzhou Township to the official list of locations suspending work and classes for September 1, alongside Shiwen Village in Chunri Township. Both are work-school / watch, not red. Haiduan and Taoyuan transport restrictions remain under watch.
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00:22 Update: Changle Village in Manzhou Added to September 1 Work/Class Suspension
Information time: September 1, 2026, 00:22.
Official sources: Directorate-General of Personnel Administration; Central Weather Administration; Water Resources Agency; Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation; Highway Bureau; Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency; and relevant local-government and road-authority notices.
Indigenous areas affected: The Directorate-General of Personnel Administration's 00:08:23 update for September 1 explicitly lists Changle Village in Pingtung County's Manzhou Township as suspending work and classes today. It also lists Shiwen Village in Chunri Township as suspending work and classes today. Changle Village is the new threshold-level change in this scan. Changle and Shiwen are both `work-school / watch`, not `red`; the notices must not be expanded to all of Manzhou or Chunri Township or to other Indigenous areas in Pingtung.
Transport changes: Provincial Highway 20 from 149K+110 to 171K+500, Xiangyang to Lidao in Haiduan Township, entered preemptive closure at 18:00 on August 31. The temporary Provincial Highway 20 Route 105 Meishankou-Xiangyang section also remains closed from September 1, so Haiduan in Taitung and Taoyuan in Kaohsiung remain `transport / watch`. No formal reopening notice was found in this scan for the Highway 7A 61K Huanshan event in Taichung's Heping District, so Heping remains `transport / watch`, not `red`.
Nationwide regional scan: North: Wulai, Fuxing, Guanxi, Jianshi, Wufeng, Nanzhuang, Shitan, and Tai'an remain `monitoring`; no new threshold-level official change was identified. Central: Heping remains `transport / watch`; Ren'ai, Yuchi, Xinyi, and Alishan remain `monitoring`. South: only Changle Village in Manzhou Township and only Shiwen Village in Chunri Township are under `work-school / watch` for the September 1 suspension. Kaohsiung Taoyuan remains `transport / watch`; the Tainan mountain area, Kaohsiung Namasia/Maolin, and Pingtung Sandimen, Wutai, Majia, Taiwu, Laiyi, Shizi, and Mudan remain `monitoring`. East: Datong and Nan'ao in Yilan and the 13 Indigenous areas monitored in Hualien remain `monitoring`; Haiduan remains `transport / watch`, while the other monitored Indigenous areas in Taitung remain `monitoring`. Wanli River remains `monitoring`.
Weather, flood, and slope alerts: CWA currently shows no county-level heavy/torrential-rain advisory. The Water Resources Agency's inundation-alert page shows Taiwan below alert thresholds. This scan found no new severe-thunderstorm alert, level-one inundation alert, debris-flow or large-scale-landslide escalation, rapid stream rise, evacuation, shelter activation, major agricultural-loss warning, or major water/power/public-service interruption affecting the monitored Indigenous areas. The Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency's August 31 Wanli River update says the natural dam remains intact, the lake is stably overflowing, and forecast 12- and 24-hour rainfall remains below alert-release thresholds; Wanli River therefore remains `monitoring`.
Alert level: The site's overall level remains `watch`. Changle Village and Shiwen Village are `work-school / watch`; Haiduan, Taoyuan, and Heping are `transport / watch`. None of these conditions should be mislabeled `red`.
Recommended action: Residents, students, schools, and relevant agencies in Changle and Shiwen villages should follow Pingtung County and Directorate-General of Personnel Administration notices for the September 1 work/class suspensions. Other villages should not assume the same status unless separately announced. Road users in Haiduan, Taoyuan, and Heping mountain areas should follow the Highway Bureau's latest closure, clearance, and reopening notices and must not enter closed road sections.
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This English translation is based on the Traditional Chinese emergency brief and official updates from the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, Central Weather Administration, Water Resources Agency, Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation, Highway Bureau, Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, and relevant local authorities. It does not replace official notices.