Daily Links, Nov 9, 2010

Stomach pain all yesterday, couldn't focus on anything. Here are the links I should have put up yesterday.

BLOGS:

• Drew with more pics from our Nantou ride.
• The Bird's Eye with some lovely pictures of places around Taiwan.
• Hear in Taiwan on the new Luzhou metrol line.
• Ian Johnson reviews five good books on Daoism.
  
• The Righteous Temple in Monga.
• In addition to the Flora exhibition, Taipei is also hosting a tea festival
• Ozsoapbox rants about mozzies in Taiwan. We've noticed they are bad this year.
• The Foreigner notes blustering brainwashed buffoons from Beijing are now stealing Japanese flags as well.
• American Footsteps in Taiwan and slides of Taiwan 1968-9
• Nanyang international folklore festival in Tainan.
• Icons of Che in the Taiwan election.
• Youth can change Taiwan! from David
• Frozen Garlic on campaign rallies in Taipei DPP and KMT.
• Global voices on government software failures.
  

MEDIA:

• A Mormon missionary in Taichung looks for love.
• UDN says Chen verdict is result of moron judges. More likely moron laws.
  
• Taipei Times on Ma and KMT reacting to not guilty verdict in Chen case as KMT attempts to make Chen an issue in the Nov elections.
• Taiwan's visa refusal rate rises, meaning it is closer to getting a US visa waiver.
  
• Taiwan honey adulterated with Chinese honey, is global smuggling issue.
  
• China's intelligence war against Taiwan. Good thing relations are great, eh?
• China navy focused on Taiwan. Good thing relations are great, eh?
• York Chen, an expert on civ-mil relations in Taiwan, writes on the national security council
• High Court judges indicted for taking bribes.
• China's online map service gets pushback from Vietnam on islands.
  
• Taiwan's fishing fleet pirates
• Exports and imports rise again. Yay!
• Counterpunch still looking at East Asia through outdated Cold War lenses.
• Taiwan must be stern with Japan in sovereignty dispute, says top envoy to Japan. I guess it is ok to make trouble with Japan, but if you defend Taiwan from China, you're provocative and a troublemaker.
• Taiwan's abalone industry destroyed by a virus.
  
• Another set of Lafayette defendents freed. Note the enormous sums involved -- there's over US$500 million in accounts in Switzerland.
• One area where Taiwan's educational system beats the US: 85% of schools in Taiwan offer vegetarian meals.
• Climate: Climate progress with a discussion of Plass' seminal 1956 paper predicting warming in the 20th century, as well as the Denialist lie that the 1970s were a time everyone thought there would be an ice age.
  

Totally not Taiwan: Waq al-Waq, on Yemen.
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