Daily Links Jan 11, 2011

What's hanging out on the blogs today?

BLOGS:

• Chinese state media pushes bike tourism in Taiwan
• Nascent Liner Notes on a hike to a nearby pond, with pics.
• OzSoapbox asks why people cover their wheels with cardboard.
• Cold Fronts and Hehuanshan from barking deer.
• Is the NT under attack?
• Ben Goren confirms ECFA NOT SUBMITTED to WTO. Hopefully it is just bureaucracy and not an agreement between allies Hu and Ma to treat ECFA as an "internal" affair.
• Todd visits a sugar refinery in Chiayi.
• Steve Crook on the Handy Guide for Foreigners in Taiwan.
• China looking to buy UK carrier.
• Househunters in Taiwan are looking for expats to profile.
• "The agriculture of Taiwan blew us away".
  

MEDIA

• US will respond to China's military build up. Cue another misinformed piece like this 2008 one from Robert Scheer in 3 2 1.....
• Can the Sudan's referendum serve as an example for unrecognized nations everywhere? Just askin'. Although whether the north will let the south go without a fight is iffy.
• Taiwan to be driver of economic integration in the new Asia, and an education hub, sez President Ma.
• Construction of the bridge between Kinmen, Little Kinmen and China begun.
• Ishigaki island fishermen seek accord with Taiwan over its fishing boats in the Senkakus.
• We're number one! Delays to the fourth nuclear plant appear to make it the world's most expensive nuclear power plant.
• Teachers, solders must begin paying taxes next year.
• UPI report cites Xinhua on the Taiwan birth rate. Leave a few messages of love there for that.
• Taiwan's total trade tops $500 billion.
• DPP wins narrowly in mayoral by-election in Caotun, Nantou.
• Japanese textbook claims Taiwan is part of PRC. Gov't protests, says Taiwan is part of ROC.
• TSU says Ma, KMT time publicity to please PRC.
• Economist says inflation should remain low in 2011.
  

RESOURCES:

• South China Sea.org with lots of information about the South China Sea.

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