The View from Taiwan

Took the train back from Tainan today. Great cloudy blue skies, and clean windows. It is election time in Taiwan, so Ma Ying-jeou is going...

The Taipei Times passes along a report that the Obama Administration has given Beijing a veto over US foreign policy: US Vice President J...

A cluster of beetles gets out of the rain among the leaves of my neighbor's gourd plants. Lotsa good stuff out there today. SPECIAL ...

Summertime: time to visit Taichung's hopping Yizhong Street, where young people go to see and be seen. On Friday night in the early ev...

The President and Veep candidate Premier Wu have been flogging the KMT brand in the south . With the North locked down and the center evenly...

A beautiful bride-to-be being done up for the traditional wedding photographs. The Taipei Times reported : The nation’s exports fell 9.7 ...

Farmers protested this week that the government has been ruthlessly carrying out land expropriations .... “The past decade has seen tens of...

Saw this heavily armed and brightly painted fellow on 130 in Miaoli yesterday. I was going to respond to John Copper's latest outburs ...

As everyone knows, former President, Vice President, Taipei Mayor, and award-winning ag econ scholar Lee Teng-hui, a tower of recent Taiwan ...

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School's out. Time for a ride over the Northern Cross Island Highway ( Map ). I hadn't been on this route since 2009, and had been...

Plenty of other news going on even as former President Lee is indicted. The China Media Bulletin of Freedom House says: *Taiwan telecom re...

PLEA : All you academics on email lists discussing this -- it's time to stop discussing. The next open letter that comes around needs to...

What is this ant doing with those tiny bugs? Are they aphids? Ant larva? A Taipei Times commentary reports on yet another developer/local...

Independent tourism from China has begun here in Taiwan. This will be good for everyone. Unlike tour groups, which are detestable, I am look...