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Hurricane in Tai Wan

On August 12th, Tai wan experienced an extremely heavy afternoon thundershower. The scientist named it Morkaot. I heard that it has killed at least 126 people and there are about 61 people missing in Taiwan. I am sure it has definitely caused a huge lost financially. I would say at least more than 1 hundred million dollars.

I feel really sorry for people in Tai Wan. The government in China takes very quick actions to help Tai Wan people. But there is a strange thing confuses me. Tai Wan government refused Chinese helicopters and army to go there. However they do accept money and relief materials.

That's very  confusing, we may have saved more people in the first place if they agreed the helicopter to go there, but they didn't. what they did is to wait for the Japanese and American helicopters. It turned our to be only 2. Come on, that's not enough. They need as many as possible.

I think the reason behind is mostly "Politics". Maybe they think it will be dangerous to allow Chinese army to enter Tai Wan Island. So they prefer to wait for the Americans while at the same time they missed the best time to save people's life. This is not smart. By the way, China is the first country to offer help after the hurricane.

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tulipa

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 tulipa hotmail.fr 
2009-08-18 / 10:31PM

i’ve seen this hurricane on different channels on tv, it was really chocking,i mean it was so huge and there was a very big loss,dead and missing people and material loss,i just want to say that i feel a big compassion towards tai wan people and towards everyone on such a catastophe in this world,unfortentlly all i can do is hoping they save lives as soon as possible and i really wish missing people will be fond.

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ToshimiKira

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 Toshimi Kira msn.jp 
2009-08-20 / 09:19AM

Very sad indeed. I see this in the new in Japan.

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 French guy rocketmail.com 
2009-08-20 / 09:28PM
To : Toshimi Kira

Are all the japanese girls so cute!? More seriously I’m wondering about learning Japanese or Mandarin and I don’t know which one is the “better”. I mean: these languages are part of two different cultures, so learning one of them involve to learn the culture. Anyway, who are the most significant japanese “philosophers” (the chinese ones are well-known: Confucius, Lao Tse, Sun Tzu…)?

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-08-20 / 09:41PM

Hi,

In terms of the numbers of people and usage, definitely Chinese is more useful than Japanese(assume that you’re not in Japan).

However, at the end of the day, this is your decision to decide which language you need to learn

Benny



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 claudia calisti(claudita) tiscali.it 
2009-08-21 / 10:38AM
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Hi Benny: first of all I want to congratulate you for the always more interesting themes you write on your blog.
Then I think you are right in your analysis of the Tai Wan Gvernment choiches: but they are not only political choiches but also “ingenuos” (I want to be polite…)choiches. How could them imagine that who give help today, ’ll ask for the bill tomorrow?? if they are afraid of China…ok…but in the meantime they are entering in the bear lain….
AS Italy: yesterday we used help from Usa and todaday Italy is the waiter of USA!(fuwuyuan? yes sir!). anyway:people life must come before all.

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 claudia calisti(claudita) tiscali.it 
2009-08-21 / 10:51AM
To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher

by the way of languages: whatis the meaningof the name TAI WAN? may be :
1 queen of the night but must be Wen Tai
2 tabletennis night but ‘d be strange to name so a land…
3 night sun
4 death night (oh my God)
5 too much evening
6 table night
or tai(feng)night and this ’d be a yuyan
or hip hurrà to the queen?
hat’s enough! better you say me!!!

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-08-21 / 02:20PM
To : claudia calisti(claudita)

I agree with you, Claudia. People’s life is always the priority to everything. Politics can’t be compared the hundreds of lives

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-08-21 / 02:23PM
To : claudia calisti(claudita)

Hi Claudia,

As far as I know, Tai wan’s name can’t tacked to the early "Ming Dynasty“. “tái” is the word from “tai feng” which means “Typhoon” and “wan” means “bay.”

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 claudia calisti(claudita) tiscali.it 
2009-08-21 / 02:59PM
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aha ah! I was near to the right! so Typhoon bay!! as a terrible forecast!(yuyan?)

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2009-08-21 / 03:50PM

Yes, exactly. yu yan = forecast

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