The View from Taiwan

The Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily had an article on the excellent blog initechnology.com as well as podcaster Gem at Misadventures i...

This excellent NYTimes article on China in Africa illustrates some of the consequences of President Bush's ongoing defeats in Iraq and ...

Dogs sleeping in a storefront. Saturday I ran up to Hsinchu to see my friend Michael and hang out at the foreign worker bars there. A few ra...

The media giveth, with Therese Shaheen writing a strongly-worded argument about the crybaby Blues that appeared in the Wall Street Journal o...

Interesting bit of local history , though not sure how reliable it is: During the tour of duty of the Qing Court official Shen Pao Chen to s...

Local media is reporting that a car struck a vehicle carrying Taichung Mayor Hu and his wife. Apparently the wife was pulled from her vehicl...

The well-traveled Taiwan blogger Prince Roy argues that Taiwan is falling behind in the Chinese food race : I consider it one of my biggest ...

As Taiwan's income distribution continues to become ever more M-shaped -- with peaks in the lower middle class and at the top -- the is...

Tofucastle left this in a comment on an old post where no one will see it. I moved it here to give it more prominence. ++++++++++++ I'm ...

Blogger Simon World points to two articles on the US, Taiwan, China, and defense: The Jamestown Foundation offers Defense Reform and Civilia...

Won't need these. Don't miss it : After eight years of participating in the prominent Asian film festival throughout the Asia-Pacifi...

Minding the scooter parking lot near the Taichung train station. Haven't had much of a chance to go and gather pics lately, but did walk...

The Taiwan blogosphere is spinning plenty of stuff this week: I note over at Taiwan Matters that the Slush Fund Scandals are threatening the...

Wendell Minnick has another good article in Defense News. Minnick is based in Taipei. ++++++++++ 11/13/06 DEFENSE NEWS Taiwan Considers IDF ...

Hunting snipes? Check the toilets here. Midterms this week, apologies for the light blogging... Lost a lot of comments too, including one ri...