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Dolphin and Lionrock will replace Yanyan and Tingting as tropical cyclone names.
The decision was made at the recent 38th Session of the Typhoon Committee of the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific and the World Meteorological Organisation.
Storm names in the western-north Pacific have been regulated by the committee since 2000, and the 14 members have nominated a 140 names, with 10 from Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Observatory and Radio Television Hong Kong ran the Tropical Cyclone Name Nomination Contest earlier this year and selected Taichi and Kapok as the winning names, with Dolphin, Lionrock, Yun-Yeung and Lu-Feng as standby names. But Taichi and Kapok have negative implications in other languages and were rejected.
The committee also elected the observatory's Assistant Director Dr Wong Ming-chung as the vice-chair of its Working Group on Disaster Preparedness & Prevention and Senior Scientific Officer Lai Sau-tak as the vice-chair of its Typhoon Research Co-ordination Group.
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