Enjoy some links for a rainy monday...
BLOGS:
- Craig Ferguson takes some lovely pics in Taichung
- Oz finds some wisdom at an abandoned Coast Guard station.
- Wind power firm hires thugs to protect its site, says J Michael
- A 1964 document on being an analyst of the war theater in Taiwan
- Jenna lists her favorite coffee shops in Taipei
- Tea Masters, always sumptuous, on high mountain oolongs.
- Steve C reviews one of Cheryl's guidebooks to Taiwan's indigenous areas
- Drew is selling his excellent Salsa steel bike. Damn! It's too big for me.
- For comic relief only: KMT knickers in knots over Lee Teng-hui's latest book.
- Asia's era of cheap migratory labor may be coming to an end: Philip Bowring with another interesting piece.
- Line, the popular chat application, is shooting for 20 million users in Taiwan by end of 2013. If only my HTC cellphone didn't have a crapload of apps I don't want but can't uninstall, I could probably install Line.
- [cynical laugh] Legislature to start to tackle capital gains tax this week.
- Phils Pres. Aquino says no harm in talking to Taiwan about a fishing pact
- Obama reaffirms duty to sell arms
- Phils bans imports of 15 foods due to chemicals, not shooting incident.
- The fight over Wang Yung-ching's massive estate continues
- Chinese hackers penetrated computers of Obama, McCain campaigns:
"In one instance, Chinese officials approached Sen. McCain's campaign to criticize his support for a planned Taiwanese military expansion. Staffers were left puzzled because the Republican Senator had drafted a letter expressing his commitment to the newly elected president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, in July 2008 but the letter had not yet been sent.”
- Jeffrey Koo, who testified that he bribed Chen Shui-bian, sentenced to nine years on appeal
- Taiwan homes in on free trade pacts
- US ignores island conflicts at its peril
- South China Sea problems risk wider clashes
- Two charged in train, office bombings.
- Richard Bush III on Obama/Xi and Taiwan
- Philippines confronting Big China and Little China
- Is TPP a tool to contain China?
- 1949 intel document shows how US knew Taiwanese didn't want to part of ROC and US did not consider Taiwan part of ROC.
- Gordon Chang in LA Times arguing, as I have for ages, that Mil-Mil relations between Beijing and Washington will not relieve tensions.
- China Brief on Taiwan Military Reform
- Japan in the US "pivot" from Project 2049
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" If only my HTC cellphone didn't have a crapload of apps I don't want but can't uninstall, I could probably install Line."
ReplyDeleteA-farkin-men.
Red A
(now using his hand me down i/phone 4 from his Mom...not sure if I like yet, but optimistic.)
I have a hand-me-down HTC Desire. Next year I am switching to another Android phone. Android seems ok, but without rooting the phone there is no way to get rid of these apps. Sucks
ReplyDeleteThat CIA intel doc isn't really news, but it confirms what George Kerr noted almost 50 years ago about the fact that he had been approached in late 1949 by the State Dept to "name local leaders who might be 'cultivated in the American interest.'" Since the last time local leaders had asked the US for help they ended up either dead or in exile, Kerr was not eager to give the US names of anyone left in Taiwan.
ReplyDeletePhilippine Daily Inquirer: NBI: Philippine coast guards liable
ReplyDeletehttp://globalnation.inquirer.net/77313/nbi-philippine-coast-guards-liable
(1) PCG's story of fishing boat trying to ram is DISPROVED.
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No attempt to ram
But the Coast Guard’s claim that the fishing boat Guan Ta Hsin 28 tried to ram the coastal patrol vessel MCS-3001 was disproved, the source said.
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(2)NBI recommends criminal charges
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The National Bureau of Investigation has recommended the filing of criminal charges against the Filipino coast guards involved in the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman in northern Philippine waters last month, the Inquirer learned on Tuesday.
A source, who has knowledge of the investigation of the incident but asked not to be identified because he has no authority to speak on the matter, declined to say whether murder or homicide charges had been recommended.
But the source said there was a debate on whether to bring murder charges against the coast guards, as “superior strength” was used “against an unarmed civilian,” or homicide, as the shooting death of fisherman Hung Shih-chen was “not premeditated.”
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