Torrential rain and strong winds triggered landslides and flooding, forcing financial markets to shut and disrupting transport, after Typhoon Saola made landfall in eastern Taiwan on Thursday.
Hindus take holy baths and change their sacred threads for protection and purification during the festival.
Twenty three people died and over 300,000 displaced as typhoon Saola (local name: Gener) continues to move away from the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
Olympic champions have to have guts, determination, belief and grace under pressure, qualities that are also needed to face the slings and arrows of false accusations.
More foreign youths are seeking internships in China as the country's economic growth remains robust and businesses become more open to foreign interns. 
'Tough part of job is getting a visa'
It was also the 21th Olympic gold medal that China won in table tennis since the game was introduced at the 1988 Seoul Games.
Eight women Olympic badminton players were on Wednesday disqualified by the sport's federation, but have not been expelled from the Games, the IOC said.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA), founded on August 1, 1927, marked the 85th anniversary of the founding.
The Chinese Olympic delegation has started an investigation into allegations Chinese shuttlers' deliberately lost the group stage of the tournament in London. 8 charged for 'throwing' matches
China's supercar market will grow at between 20 percent and 30 percent annually over the next five to 10 years, according to the general manager in Asia-Pacific for the famous Italian brand, Lamborghini.
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