Daily Links, May 25, 2010

Drying tea in Chiayi on Saturday... what's being prepared on the blogs this week?

BLOGS:

• Taiwan in Cycles hilariously lists Taiwan's worst cars for cyclists. If you can't guess the number 1, you don't drive in Taiwan.
  
• Just Recently: Is Taiwan a province of China?
• Global Voices on Taiwanese responses to Thailand's agony, and Taiwanese WWII vets.
• The Biking Viking hits the northeast coast. Biking down to Jiaoxi is one of my favorite rides.
• Greater Kaohsiung legislative redistricting from Frozen Garlic.
• Hear in Taiwan on youth unemployment.
• Cycling Satin Sestina looks at Giant's new carbon bike.
• Battle of Fisherman's Wharf on the aborigines in the Japanese army.
• Far Eastern Sweet Potato questions whether Ma takes defense seriously.
• Tea Masters on a 20 year old Oolong.
• Patrick rips a brochure on Sun Yat-sen and Taiwan.
• Tainan City guide visits Xunfang fortress.
  

MEDIA:

• Taiwan's Businessweek mag is having an online vote about Ma's performance. When I looked at it Tuesday morning, the very dissatisfied result was leading any other many times over.
• As the Taipei Times points out over the latest flap with ECFA, each time Ma attempts to claim ECFA is apolitical, China returns to point out that it is, indeed, political.
• Filipino paper says growth in Taiwan good for Filipino OFWs.
• Taiwanese newlyweds recruited as drug mules for New Zealand.
• China and Taiwan to add 120 flights.
• Jon Adams with another kickass piece on ECFA in the NYTimes.
• TT's excellent piece on ECFA as a threat to food security.
• CIP says law should be amended to recognize plains aboriginal peoples.
• Taiwan and Vietnam tussle over agreements on legal issues -- there are 400,000 Vietnamese in Taiwan. In related news, a central Taiwan elementary school is offering Vietnamese language classes.
  

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