100340 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=6ab2b369e38e8310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=china&s=newsThe first of two typhoons struck the east coast last night, with another set to make landfall early today, threatening devastation inland.Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:05:00 +0200scmp-80126744bdd044fad0ec7b5d0a743e3620120803000500http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182608/Typhoon-Saola-Flooding-landslides-kill-leave-thousands-homeless.html?ITO=1490The footage shows the startling moment Typhoon Saola claimed a life in the city of Taipei. The military helped more than 1,000 people flee from less-populated regions.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:18:00 +0200mailonsunday-2c37e054a0b2a8c85bdf8a33d3478fe920120802231800http://thehimalayantimes.com/rssReference.php?headline=Typhoon%20rain%20floods%20Taiwan&NewsID=341980TAIPEI: A typhoon inched across northern Taiwan today after already dumping up to five feet of rain that has flooded farmland, swollen rivers and paralysed life on much of the densely populated island of 23 million people. Typhoon Saola weakened to a strong tropical storm by late afternoon, but its....Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:22:00 +0200thehimalayantimes-4aa00ee99ec611390de90856862f9c0120120802222200http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2012/08/03/2003539343Rescuers deployed rubber boats while doctors fanned across cramped evacuation centers in the Philippines as the death toll from five days of flooding reached 23 yesterday, officials said. Large farming towns north of the capital, Manila, as well as heavily populated coastal areas remained under....Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:03:00 +0200taipeitimes-5bb32523082095b3d45c70908b3f7add20120802200300