Daily Links, August 30, 2010

Found this Taiwan government Chinglish fail in my Gmail ads: "Interesting" in Taiwan? Aargh. There are thousands of native speakers who work for the government who could easily correct fails like this.

August. Even in the heat and rain, plenty of stuff happening.

BLOGS:

• An excellent post on the Taiwan HSR at DKOS says it may soon turn a profit.
• Chinese perceptions of Taiwan from Sinocentric.
• CNN says Kaohsiung #3 city for cycling in Asia.
• Students ask for more rights in Taiwan's colleges
• Stocks and Politics on Sen. Patty Murray's visit to China
• Brian Dunn rips China invasion assessment idiocy.
• 250,000 Facebookers against inadequate sentence
• Is Taiwan whitewashing Sino-Tibetan history?
• Lawyer and immigrant Robin Winkler with a piece on rule of law in Taiwan
• Jerome on Ma-speak
• Laowiseass on the fashions of fear: conformism in bicycle masking.
  

MEDIA:

• AP on the cats of the old coal town of Houtong.
• Taiwan painters and Taiwan identity from Jon Adams at Global Post
• Ma moves to restore KMT control over the judiciary with the appointment of crony to key post.
• Commonwealth Mag on the new personal data act: a minefield.
• Sex selection practices in Taiwan's clinics are illegal: DOH
• White Knight to save AIG from Chinese money.
• Indian Defence Review on China's core interests.
• Taiwan to set up marine park over fishermen's objections.
• Cram school scandals. The miracle is that they were caught....
• New analysis in Hsichih Trio case may exonerate them. Finally!
• Qualcomm mulls R&D unit in Taiwan
• Taipei housing crunch: people now searching for homes where murders occurred.
• Beijing whines, pees on floor, snarls at US over radar sale.
• No kidding: another college football player named Taiwan.
• China stages own exercises in Yellow Sea to match US
• Japanese forces stage island re-taking assault. Hint, hint, China.
• Taiwan What's Up out.
  

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