Some links

• Wushanding mud volcano
• WantWant: Taiwan considers making northernmost islands a national park. A subtle revelation of what everyone knows: the Senkakus aren't part of Taiwan. The northernmost islands of Taiwan have historically been these three. 
• WantWant: Deer conservation, new thinking needed.
• Ko Wen-je's remarks on colonialism ripped in the... Times of Oman.
• Sister of corporal whose death sparked massive protests to run for seat in Taichung 3 with newly forming party (from the great Facebook group Taiwan News in English. Freddy Lim of the metal band Chthonic is also going to run for a legislative seat. 
• China airlines to enter six months of negotiations
• Finally! Re-enactment of history in Taiwan
• Solidarity.tw notes two hot topics in DPP camp: (1) legislative approval of president's choice of premier and (2) lowering referendum threshold, fearing US would object
• Oxford Taiwan studies conference, Call for Papers
• WSJ: Mandatory liberal studies classes for Hong Kong make Beijing sweat.
• SOAS announces: Our colleague Bernhard Fuehrer（傅熊） and Yang Hsiu-fang（楊秀芳） 著 have released their long awaited Hokkien textbook set: Southern Hokkien: An Introduction
  The latest publication in the Routledge Research on Taiwan is Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan: Naming China by Chang Hui-ching and Richard Holt (Amazon link)
  

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