The View from Taiwan

Islaformosa has opened a new blog on Blogspot and is once again back to putting up great stuff (the old blog is on Wordpress ). Among them ...

One pleasant little day trip out of Taitung city is swinging by the popular Chulu Farm and the Luye Tea District. Chulu Farm has been around...

Tropical Storm Bilis may have pounded Taiwan , although we didn't notice as we drove up the East Coast on last Wednesday, Thursday, and ...

A couple of years ago I swung around Taiwan with my Taiwanese in-laws ( some pictures from our trip ); this year we journeyed with my parent...

An anonymous spammer has been spamming the blog with urgent requests for me to visit the Drop Chen Email Signature campaign supposedly run b...

An organization in Singapore wants YOU! +++++++++ Our Website in Singapore is looking for a Taiwan-based tech blogger who could write in Eng...

ESWN, never one to miss a hack on President Chen, has a link to a rather silly article from an Apple Daily Taiwan essayist whom ESWN says is...

Have you entirely forgotten Brother The fragrance and comfort of clean hands? The confidence, the peace you have when you know You'll le...

With Ghost Month coming up, municipalities are searching for ways to reduce the air pollution from thousands of people burning ghost money a...

Bill Stimson, whose workshops on dreams and writing many people find inspiring, is hosting a workshop in Taipei on Aug 20. Jerome Keating ...

I haven't discussed the foreign media portrayals of Taiwan in over a month, and here Kathrin Hille at the Financial Times checks in with...

I've long wanted to dedicate a page to this magnificent stretch of road between Hualien and I-lan, so here it is . Enjoy. While you'...

Taiwan has many excellent museums, which I have thoroughly enjoyed visiting and writing about here ( Taichung Folk Culture Museum , National...

Jason at Wandering to Tamshui pointed me to this funny rant from a Hong Kong-based Apple Daily commentator about how absurd US diplomatic r...

I'm slowly going to build a set of websites on the places we visited, and blog on them in no particular order. Here's the page on ou...