Typhoon drenches Taiwan after claiming lives in the Philippines

Dawu, Taiwan (CNN) -- Typhoon Nanmadol pounded Taiwan with heavy rains Monday before it was downgraded to a tropical storm and headed toward China, where hundreds of ships returned to harbor.

Just 15 minutes of exercise a day can boost life expectancy by three years and cut death risk by 14%, research from Taiwan suggests.

Experts in The Lancet say this is the least amount of activity an adult can do to gain any health benefit.

The Dubai that graces guidebook covers is easy to find. From its skyscraping towers to its bustling malls, the city can feel like a westernized, futuristic introduction to the Middle East. European imports pop up as plentifully as construction cranes, and 80% of the population is comprised of expatriates from more than 150 nations. But as the city focuses on sustaining growth, it has made preserving its historical sites a priority. Vestiges of pre-1970s Dubai, then an unassuming port of call famous for its pearls, can still be found, hidden amid the modern towers and flashing lights. This juxtaposition of the ancient and hyper-new creates a window into how modern Dubai has taken shape and provides an opportunity to learn about Arabic cultures in one of the region’s most open environments.

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Bastakiya, an old-city neighbourhood on the west side of the creek that divides the city into Diera on the east and Bur Dubai on the west, paints a picturesque if somewhat sterile snapshot of Dubai's past. Originally home to Iranian merchants in the late 19th Century, much of the neighbourhood was razed in the 1980s to make space for a new office complex for the emirate's ruler at the time. Bastakiya gained status as a heritage site in 1988, preventing a second wave of demolition, and since then the city has focused on restoring the neighbourhood, both physically and culturally. Few people live in Bastakiya today, but nearby souks (markets) spark foot traffic that enlivens the labyrinth of alley ways.

Four people have died and another 15 were injured yesterday when a Taiwanese tour group was caught in a bus accident in northeastern China.  

The 19 people (18 tourists and a Taiwanese guide), were on a bus traveling on the Changchun-Julin Expressway as part of a tour organized by Lion Travel yesterday. At about 2:30 p.m., while trying to dodge a vehicle cutting in from an adjacent lane, the bus turned over and rolled down a three-meter slope, about 440-kilometer from Changchun.

Four Taiwanese tourists, 42-year-old Lu Hui-yu (呂惠玉, female), 62-year-old Chao Cho (趙灼, female), 42-year-old Liu Hsiu-yun (廖秀雲, female) and 24-year-old Wang Min-wei (王明瑋, male), died in the crash, according to Vincent Lin (林承曄), spokesperson and deputy general manager of Lion Travel yesterday.

ETA是預計到達的時間，ETD是預計出發時間。

Technology is becoming increasingly important to restaurants and tabletop ordering devices only stand to multiply, according to Darren Tristano, executive vice president at the Chicago-based restaurant consulting firm Technomic.

"It's cool and trendy and kids love it," he explained. "It paves the way for other opportunities with applications."

有位民眾花了1700元找翻譯社幫忙翻譯約900字的碩文論文，不料交出英文摘

Yani Tseng returned to Taiwan on Tuesday as the youngest golfer ever to win five majors. With the Women’s British Open out of the way, Tseng says she can now focus on October’s Taiwan LPGA tournament. ##

Table salt will receive top billing in a series of festivities and activities planned for the coming weekend by the management of the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area under the Tourism Bureau.

The “2011 Qigu Salt Art Festival” (七股鹽雕藝術季), which promises to make Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan a “white” tourist destination and drum up business for the local salt industry, is slated to open on Saturday, Aug. 6 at the Salt Mountain Theme Park and Taiwan Salt Museum in Qigu, Tainan.

On Saturday evening, the seventh day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar, romance will beckon as the day is also the Double-Seventh Festival, the Chinese answer to the Feb. 24 St. Valentine's Day. TANK, the Taiwan king of love songs, will be on hand at a “Double Seventh Evening Variety Show” to serenade the ladies and entertain fans. Other entertainers, including rock groups Kaka and Sigma, will perform hit songs. A fireworks show will wrap up the event.

Taiwan’s Wang Chien-ming returned to a Major League mound for the first time in over two years Saturday morning Taiwan time. Though Wang gave up six runs in four innings in the Washington Nationals’ 8-5 loss, just making it back was a victory in itself. His next start will be against the Atlanta Braves early Thursday morning. ##

這句老掉牙的中文口語在英文中有幾句對應的翻譯，即 if worse come(s) to worst，if worst come(s) to worst，其中若為直述語氣，則動詞用 comes，若為假設語氣，則動詞用 come。此外，worse 或 worst 前面也可加上定冠詞 the。例如：Check with the company to see if they can fix the printer, if the worst comes to the worst, we’ll just buy a new one. (去找那家公司看看能不能修理這台印表機，如果實在不行 [即最壞的情況發生]，那麼我們就買一台新的)。

有人可能質疑，worse 是形容詞 bad 的比較級，而 worst 是最高級，照理應該只有 if worse come(s) to worst 才對，但其實這幾句都是英文的標準用語，不折不扣的慣用語。雖然 if worst come(s) to worst 可能是 if worse come(s) to worst 的變形，但前者在使用頻率上反而比後者來得高。

Electric car drivers in the UK are being offered the chance to break free of the city and hit the open road.

Green energy firm Ecotricity has launched the world's first national motorway charging network for electric vehicles.

Vase Rock is the most famous tourist attraction on Liuqiu. It was formed by the rising of the coastal coral reefs. The coral formation looks like a vase because its lower part becomes thinner as a result of being eroded by the sea for a long period of time.

A widespread drought in the Amazon rain forest last year was worse than the "once-in-a-century" dry spell in 2005 and may have a bigger impact on global warming than the United States does in a year, according to British and Brazilian scientists.

More frequent severe droughts like those in 2005 and 2010 risk turning the world's largest rain forest from a sponge that absorbs carbon emissions into a source of the gases, accelerating global warming, the report found.

Electric Bikes Clean Up

In Taipei, scooters are both popular and ubiquitous. They offer quick, cheap transportation and easy parking. However, they are also responsible for air and noise pollution. Is there any alternative to these two problems? The answer may be the electric bicycle. On Xiamen Island in China, the government has banned scooters but allows people to purchase electric bicycles. These machines carry people around silently and do not emit any exhaust. According to China’s environmental protection standards, Xiamen’s air is classed as first rate. Is every one happy? No, they are not. Both the Xiamen traffic department and local residents agree that the growing number of electric bicycles is causing more accidents. Banning them seems unlikely. Instead, better driver education and stricter enforcement of existing laws are necessary. This should help this quiet and clean alternative to the scooter continue to transport people around Xiamen.

TAIPEI -- After a very long wait, Washington Nationals pitcher Chien-Ming Wang of Taiwan will finally return to the Major Leagues with a start against the New York Mets on July 30 Taipei time, the Nationals said.  

“It would mean a lot,” Wang said in an interview with the New York Times of his return to a Major League mound. “A lot of people tell me, this kind of injury, no one comes back.”

In the interview with the newspaper published July 24, Wang said he still could add 2 or 3 mph to his sinker and guessed that he was 80 to 90 percent as effective as he used to be in his long journey to regain the vaunted sinker that once tied up big league hitters.

A：雖然這兩句的結構不同，I worry about you. 中的 worry 為不及物動詞，而 I am worried about you. 中的 worried 為分詞形容詞，但它們的意思幾無不同，皆為「我擔心你」或「我為你擔憂」；此外，它們的文法都正確。 然而，它們的含意並不相同。I worry about you. 是一般性或普遍性的陳述，是指說話者一直以來或大多數時間都為此人擔憂，是一種長期或持久性的擔憂，而 I am worried about you. 則有一項「現在」的元素存在，表示說話者對說話當時所見所聞或最近所發生的某一特殊情況的憂慮、擔心。為了讓讀者瞭解它們之間的語意差異，茲將這兩句加以延伸如下： I worry about you because I’m your mother. (我擔心你，因為我是你母親) I’m worried about you; you’re looking very thin. (我為你擔憂；你看起來好瘦哦) 母親向來都為子女操心，所以在第 1 句中，母親為子女擔憂是一種普遍性的情況，不是特殊情況。第 2 句為特殊情況，因為你平常可能體重很正常，但此時此景你看起來瘦巴巴的，所以我為你擔心。

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After taking a hit recently because of Apple’s patent lawsuits, HTC shares went limit up Wednesday, propelled by support from Google and a stock buyback program. Its performance helped the Taiwan Stock Exchange rise 2.13 percent to close at 8,706.17 points.