Becoming Taiwanese has some great shots of Tamshui/Danshui along with historical commentary. Senorita Pequena visits the famous Art Corner restaurant. Far Eastern Sweet Potato reviews a Rushdie masterpiece. The Foreigner blogs on professional student spies. Alton has a great article on people who don't finish their PHDs. What's the dropout rate? 50%! Talking Taiwanese has a good post on different bilingual education models. Poagao argues that the DPP has worked out a Su-Hsieh contigency plan. Stephanie discusses how water conditions impact tea. That's Impossible discusses cash and scandals of the DPP and the KMT. Enjoy the gorgeous pics of birds at Formosa Birding.
MEDIA: Reuters reports on our stray dog problem, which is actually getting better. Watch out folks! Living costs are rocketing up. Dept of Health here blocks US pork, but US says hormone in pork is not a problem. RAND Corporation has a new report out saying Taiwan will not annex itself to China even if the pro-China parties take the Presidency (Download from here).
MORE MEDIA: Chaon reports that when you personalize CNN with your location information -- and his is Taichung, as is mine -- it reports that you are in Taichung, China. Apparently, there is a place in China with that name, for Hualien, Hsinchu, and Taipei are all correctly located in Taiwan. Kaohsiung, Miaoli, and Changhua do not appear to exist in any form, and Tainan yields the choice of one in China and in Taiwan. Or maybe Taichung is just cursed: last week I stopped by his house and he showed me another common eff-up: an educational standards association he's corresponding with had his packet sent to "Taichung, China" but somehow the post office was wiser, and got it to his house in Taichung, Taiwan.
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Watch out! Pro-China activists must be infiltrating Taichung. They've already taken a hack at the public addressing network, I see. Maybe you can help them cool down; your network seems to be familiar with the watering holes in the area =)
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