Whew! It's hot out there! What's burning up the blogs this week?
BLOGS:
- Three culinary treasures of Donggang in Pingtung.
- Sun Yat-sen, American citizen when he founded ROC?
- Frozen Garlic on nominations for the Legislative Yuan, to date.
- Ozsoapbox with the media timeline of the DEHP scandal and some more background.
- Part III of Laorencha's work on marriage in Taiwan.
- AsiaEye's Underrated news for the week.
- Those hot Italian bikes that people buy because they aren't made in Taiwan? Guess what.
- Fulong Training Camp for triathletes and cyclists June 25-6.
Me on Open Mic night at Titty Tea (blog) in Jhubei. They will be doing this every Sat night this month.
MEDIA:
- Ralph Jennings in the NYTimes with a good piece on the environmental movement and Robin Winkler.
- China intensifying maritime surveillance (Jamestown Foundation). We here in Asia can expect an even more confrontations in the years ahead. East Asia Forum on the contradictions in China's external security approach.
- Liu Shih-chung with good piece on DPP Chairman Tsai's overseas trip to Europe.
- US-China rivalry driving China's South China Sea expansion? Yes, that's right. The US also compelled China to invade Tibet, asked Beijing to shoot everyone in Tiananmen, and is paying China not to regulate its coal mines. *sigh*
- Commonwealth with pieces on psychosomatic disorders this month. Good stuff, starting with this one.
- CSIS on avoiding another Cold War.
- Straits Times writer on US-China meeting there.
- Taiwanese singers dominate Mandarin music world.
- New paths to powering Taiwan from Taiwan Panorama.
- Cram schools in Taiwan from AFP
- Wealth gap could drive election. In the WSJ, too. Kudos to the author.
- Outstanding Taiwan forger of US dollars lives -- where else? -- in Taichung.
- Head of Public Construction Commission says ground subsidence is as serious as food contamination, so where's the public outrage?
- Don't flip the bird, you can be sued and promoted to the priesthood.
HELP:
NCKU student is running a study on bike stops. You can do the survey here:
- Chinese Version (中文): http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/544404/NCKU-Bike-Stop-Study-Chinese-Version-2
- English Version (英文): http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/554057/NCKU-Bike-Stop-Study-English-Version-2
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7 comments:
I posted a picture of Titty Tea on my blog months ago, when I actually made a friend pull over (we'd rented a car at HSR Xinzhu Station) so I could take a photo.
What a horrible, and yet so terribly funny, name for a tea shop.
I hope they open their affiliate shop, Cafe des Balls, soon...
What do you do on open mike, MT? Tell jokes? Sing Hall and Oates covers? Or just spread the word?
Yeah, Titty Tea is a crazy name, but so is "Bo1ba4 nai3cha2", right?
highly interesting article in Commonwealth about mental problems in Taiwan. i am quite familiar with those in my native country (not only because my mother is a psychiatrist) and also here.
Very good a magazine like this one makes this issue public.
I do not buy into this BS of companies helping their employees. Even if few do it, everyone knows what the priorities here are and how employees are treated - salaries, working hours ...
So - long way to go
D, I told jokes in Chinese. First two went over well, second two bombed, so I got down. I was followed by another foreigner who did the same thing, but much better. Very funny man, he was.
Michael
Hey, keep it up, you could go to the mainland and make a second career of that. Your standard set-up could be "Did you hear what happened when the Taiwanese guy ran into the Chinese guy?" [rim shot].
Regarding Ozsoapbox's timeline about the DEHP :
“May 2011 – Taiwan FDA food inspector randomly finds up to 600ppm of DEHP in 16 samples of sports and softdrinks including Sunkist Lemon Juice, Taiwan Yes energy-boosting drink.”
This is incorrect. The accidental finding was in mid (or early?) April, not in May.
The government covered up the finding until May 23rd --- after Ma's 3rd-year inauguration on May 20.
President Ma claimed that he didn't knew about the findings until late May. That is, around or after the inauguration date.
Hello
Would you care to add my blog to your esteemed sidebar?
It is about weather, and is a good place to track Taiwan-bound typhoons.
thanks.
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