Lotsa news this week....
BLOGS:
- Red A discovers why Chinese and Taiwanese students are so great.
- Barking Deer on the Vertigo Trail
- Trips to rural townships (with pics)
- David goes photowalking in Taichung
- Jerome muses on Taiwan's hybrid nature
- Danshui history blog on Beriberi
- AsiaEye with underreported news.
- Important new PRC media rules limit what reporters can say about Taiwan
- Still massive silt and driftwood after Morakot at the Tsengwen reservoir.
- Huashan Dam slated for completion in 2014. Water going to...carbon polluting industries.
- Taiwan is something like third in wind resources. Or something.
- Can Taiwan make a $35 tablet PC for India?
- Gov't to allow military, parties, and agencies to invest in the media.
- Formosa Plastics naptha cracker hit by second fire in a month.
- Taiwan News looks at the KMT in Miaoli. Hilariously, two local universities there employed a convicted briber to teach law.
- How builders rip off buyers
- Taipei Times discusses the (lack of) negotiating skills of Taiwan's negotiators
- Commonwealth with another great piece on higher ed in Taiwan.
- Taiwan's cable TV market is shaken up.
JUST FOR KICKS: New species discovered all the time. And this photo heavy post at DKOS of strange earth phenomena.
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Jerome Keating wrote:
ReplyDelete"Taiwan has an identity that makes it clearly different from all its neighbors."
That they may be true, but on the other hand, can't the same also be said of, say, both North and South Korea or Japan? All of those countries are also clearly different from their neighbors (including Taiwan). Is Jerome suffering a bit from cultural myopia?
The west coast of Taiwan has to be good for offshore windmills... it's shallow water but good wind. Big issue are the typhoons/hurricanes.
ReplyDeleteHopefully there aren't issues with rare birds getting caught in them... I've read that bats actually have a much tougher time avoiding wind turbines. If that's the case, all the more attractive is offshore.
The only drawback I can see is Taiwan has no players in the wind power industry right now, though there are many component manufacturers that would benefit (transformers, battery systems).