Posted by: socalgolfer on: March 3, 2010
At around 720 pm eastern time a 6.4 magnitude Earthquake struck Southern Taiwan. The quake hit in the early hours of the morning and caused severe damage to many buildings and major bridges. Power was cut from many places and the damages are still being calculated by officials. The main part of the quake hit [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: February 3, 2010
The United States recently struck a $6.4 billion dollars arms deal with Taiwan on Sunday. The sale included the purchase of 60 Black Hawk Helicopters, 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles; a pair of Osprey mine-hunting ships; and many sets of advanced communications systems. China has been severely opposed to the sale of F-16 fighter [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: December 2, 2009
The new Chinese cartoon star is called TUZKI. The tuzki is a popular illustrated rabbit, created by Wang Momo. Wang momo is a female comic drawer. She graduated from the animation school and communication university of china. The first motivation for her to draw Tuzki was because she wanted to record down her daily life experience. [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: October 6, 2009
Chinese moon festival is called mid-autumn festival too. The date of the moon festival is August 15th on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The moon festival is one of the most important holidays for Asian people. It is the second most important celebration in China after the Chinese New Year. On the moon festival, the Chinese [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: September 22, 2009
Giant, the Taiwan brand of bicycle, and also the first product made in Taiwan that can popular around to the world. The Giant manufacturing is the world largest manufacturing. It established In1972 and they start the OEM for other company first. Oem is meaning a company builds the product for other company but after the [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: September 20, 2009
In Taiwan, the”ghost month” restricts people in doing many things. I am going to list the things you cannot do in the ghost month. 1. You cannot dry your cloths at night, because the ghost may get in your clothes. 2. When you sleep, you have to make sure your hair is neat or else [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: September 15, 2009
The meaning of the ghosts in my country is that the people are already dead but don’t know, they still have something they need to do or they are people that did a lot of bad things. In my country Taiwan, we were using Chinese calendar. It is separated to two different calendars, solar and [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: September 8, 2009
Taiwan is the place where I grow up. And there is one special cultural in Taiwan, The night market. It is also my best memories in my childhood. In Taiwan for most of people they will get out school or work really late. And usually there is the time that most of stores were close. [...]
