Daily Links, Dec 6, 2010

My daughter with our new dog.

BLOGS:

• Here in Taiwan on Chen Chu
• Jim on Hsueh Shan
• The Temple of Baron Su from the Danshui history blog
• Way Cool: the factory that makes the garments of the gods
• Landslides can happen anywhere
• The Daily Bubble Tea has multiplied!
  

ELECTION & ANALYSIS

• China Brief: Michael Hsiao
• A new generation steps forward in the elections: David
  
• Jens Kastner in Asia Times
• Charles Morrison in WSJ pukes up a load in an otherwise pedestrian piece on the election. The DPP doesn't have an "image" as a radical, violent party, except in the minds of people controlled by KMT propaganda. That comment should be removed and apologized for. And speaking of violence, how many people has the KMT killed over the years?
  
• UDN reads the tea leaves on the election, noting the KMT's eroding long-term base.
• Frozen Garlic on the election results
• DPP's next steps are crucial
• China Times: KMT in crisis as a result of the election.
• Sean Lien now admits he doesn't know what gunman said. Now that the election is over. Who could have imagined that?
• Cast your vote against violence, said the KMT
  

MEDIA:

• Another in the string of bizarre articles that more or less assert that it was ok for North Korea to shell civilians because South Korea shelled water.
• More people now defined as low income.
• Taiwan in the World Bank Doing Business rankings.
• Ming Chuan becomes Asia's first US-accredited university
• MSF doctor writes about experiences in Yemen.
• One reason Taiwan is so great: the gov't has a commercial to tell employers not to force muslim workers to eat pork.
• Record number of couples registered marriages on Lucky Nines Day. Good they got married on a lucky day, because the divorce rate of people who marry on lucky days is so different from those who get married on normal days.
• Out of Touch Official of the Week blasted for saying students with part time jobs are stupid.
• Taiwan dollar continues to rise.
• Coral reefs still in danger.
  
• Cheap coal fueling China's rise, global problems
• Way cool: the U of Tex map collection, with a page containing US military maps of Formosa cities of 1944-45
  

EVENTS:

• SOAS in Taichung Dec 11-12
• Petition against the dominance of SSCI papers in faculty evaluations in Taiwan
  

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