The View from Taiwan

Lots of moon pictures out there this week, but in most cases the brightness of the moon so close to earth blows out the details. I prefer th...

Sun Moon Lake. A victory for Taiwanese-Americans as the state of California ended its crazy policy of forcing Taiwanese-Americans to list...

Great day Saturday. In the morning some old students of mine put together a ride around Sun Moon Lake. In the afternoon I drove up to Hsinch...

A friend of mine passed this around Facebook today ( link ). This is a picture of Jingguan Village in Nantou. Farmed slopelands erode specta...

At night, the snails come out by the thousand. The Ma Administration, under fire for the sensible move of raising electricity prices ...

The Red Army menace grows even a s the government cuts the budget .... The total area in Taiwan affected by exotic red fire ants has increa...

A juvenile Malaysian night heron, a common sight around Taiwan. A friend sent this  from the China Times around: "A ship carrying pes...

From about 1951 or thereabouts. My thanks to a dear friend and longtime reader for sending this around. My father in law gave my wife a gr...

Lots of stuff going on.... DPP takes by-election in Lukang. A friend writes: "DPP candidate Huang Chen-yen (黃振彥) scored a major victo...

Anthony van Dyck of Taiwanease sent around the press release for their new app.... Taiwanease.com, a website created for Taiwan’s Internat...

The stock market is still in shock that stock transaction tax and capital gains taxes are being contemplated by the Ma Administration. Thes...

Cain Nunn had an excellent piece in The Diplomat that echoed the concerns in my post from a couple of days ago....basically because Taipei...

Come out and vote! This is your chance to actually cast a ballot for a US primary election right here in Taiwan! If you haven't and don...

When is it going to stop? In Taiwan, after you have been convicted, the judiciary orders you to appear to start your sentence instead of ...

Some links for you to wallow in.... BLOGS : New bike models on display at Cycling Satin Cesena Individual combat training from Bala D...