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Entries for November, 2006

Taiwan Blog Round Ups: Permanent Page

Blog Round UpsI used to round up the blogs each week, but I ran out of time.
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Intercultural Religion Mis-interpretation

Here’s a question that I’ve always wanted answered….I was reading the blog for Jon Benda’s intercultural communication class (what? I thought intercultural communication was all done with hand signals) — which must surely be a blast to teach — and I came across this highly confused paragraph:
Moreover, I suggest that Wikipedia could provide further discussion [...]

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Theory and Practice of Blogging

I don’t often blog on blogging — if blogging is a form of mental masturbation, then blogging about blogging is surely a kind of self-absorbed pornography — but the excellent interlocals.net, which does translations from all over the world, had a link to this set of papers on the theories and practices of blogging. Those [...]

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Polls Show Support for Independence on Rise

One reason I don’t like to argue much about local support for Taiwan independence is that it has been very difficult to say for sure what it is. But a recent poll may have changed all that, as the Taipei Times reports:
Sixty-two percent of Taiwanese respondents to a recent survey conducted jointly in four [...]

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Taiwan Boss Woes

A boss I think many of us will recognize:
Not to embark on a tangent, but that last part is possibly the most despicable behavior I have seen at this company, or in all my employment experience. In fact, the plagiarism is not limited to stealing ideas from other companies that produce similar products, or even [...]

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Andrew Szanajda Proudly Announces

My friend, Axis and Allies partner, and professor at OCIT announces the publication of his new book:
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The Restoration of Justice in Postwar Hesse, 1945-1949By Andrew Szanajda
The Restoration of Justice in Postwar Hesse deals with the reconstruction of the administration of justice in postwar Hesse, a newly established state in the American occupation zone, during the [...]

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Photo blog with Taipei Pics

For those of you into photos, I stumbled across thesegreat photos from around Taipei by Darby Sawchuck, professional travel photographer.
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Related PostsGreat Taiwan PicsCraig Ferguson has a fantastic page of pictures athttp://www.photo.net/photos/cfimages with pics of …Great New Blogs on the RollUpdated with two blogs with really great photos today as I was updating my blogroll. First, [...]

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Foreign Investment as strategy to Evade China-bound investment laws?

The US investment firm Carlyle’s bid for a local hi-tech firm has sent positive vibes throughout the local stock market for a number of reasons….

The local benchmark index capped 10 consecutive days of gains by hitting a six-year high yesterday, spurred by the Carlyle Group’s bid for Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the world’s largest [...]

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ESWN hacks on Taiwan’s Democracy Again

ESWN’s obsessive hatred of Taiwan got the better of him again today as he posted another abusive article about our democracy here. I’m not going to bother to deconstruct that silly post in its entirety because really, reading ESWN’s yammering on Taiwan’s democracy is a comically painful act, rather like watching a Golden Retriever trying [...]

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The Ninth Circle of Hell

You wouldn’t have thought it, but you’re looking at the Ninth Circle of Hell — that is, if you live next door. In our neighborhood a local charity that is building a hospital nearby has purchased several of the large villas for use as dorms for its doctors and nurses. The buildings are all being [...]

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Japan-Taiwan ties continue to grow

One of the most important trends in the Asian region in the last few years has been the increasingly good ties between Tokyo and Taipei, symbolized by the recent visit of former Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro and a set of Japanese art treasures to the Beautiful Island this month. Taiwan News editorialized:
However, substantive relations between [...]

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More media follies on Taiwan

In a quote I cited a few posts down, American correspondent William Shirer, who was in Berlin during the Hitler era, talked about how, no matter how hard you fought, after a while in a totalitarian state, you begin to absorb its habits of thinking and expression. The steady supply of correspondents who go to [...]

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NYTimes with Spotty Article: Taiwan….

The foreign media once again mailed in an effort on Taiwan as NY Times reporter Jim Yardley turned in a definite “D” effort on the island yesterday (IHT version here):
“In 10 years, when we look back, this could be a turning point for Taiwan’s democracy to become mature,” said Emile C. J. Sheng, a [...]

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Third Recall Fails; PFP to go after Premier?

The third attempt by the KMT and PFP to recall Chen failed yesterday, as WaPo reports.
President Chen Shui-bian easily survived an impeachment vote in Taiwan’s legislature Friday despite his wife’s indictment on embezzlement charges and a prosecutor’s statement that Chen could be indicted as well if he did not have presidential immunity.
The vote signaled that [...]

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Tom Plate, Media, and Taiwan

“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state….. It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’ s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a [...]

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    TAIWAN BLOG FEED
    Blog Aggregator

    35togo
    Photos and commentary on Taiwan

    The Bala Daily
    Pics & Commentary on Taiwan

    Battlepanda
    Politics and Life from local reporter

    Becoming Taiwanese
    An American-Taiwanese in Taiwan

    Belligeretron
    Life and All from Taipei

    Bent
    News from Taiwan and China

    Big Ell's Blog
    Wit and Wisdom from Canada in Taichung

    Black American Lawyer in China
    Brash, black, legal insight on Taiwan and China

    Bloggers in Taiwan
    Taiwan English Blog List

    Bourdieu Boy
    Learned insight into Taiwan

    Chewin' on the Chung
    Karl's insightful blog on what life is really like in Central Taiwan

    Conductor's Notebook
    Pieces, Themes, and Variations

    Craig Ferguson Images
    Stunning images, photography news & views

    Cross-Strait Economics Blog
    A balanced view of an unbalanced Strait

    The Daily Bubble Tea
    Travels, pics, life

    David on Formosa
    Popular and informative Taiwan Blog

    Doubting to shuo?
    Teaching on the Beautiful Island

    Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
    Writer based in Taipei

    FideCogitActio
    Life and Catholicism in Taiwan

    filination
    Taiwan, from Israel

    following an unknown path
    a widely-linked missionary blog

    The Foreigner in Formosa
    Cthulhu meets Taiwan

    Gary EFL Taiwan
    Taiwan EFL blog

    The Gentle Rant
    Observations on a world quickly going insane

    Getting a Leg Up
    Podcasting and Blogging from Taichung

    Hanjie's Blog
    Things and scenes in Taiwan

    Highway 11
    Blog and site of East Coasts' leading expat mag

    Ilha Formosa - Keeping up with the War God
    Taiwan: Life, love and laughs in paradise.

    Investorblogger
    Investing, Blogging in Taiwan

    IslaFormosa
    Rants and Raves about Taiwan

    It's Not Democracy,It's A Conspiracy!
    Maddog Dissects Taiwan's News and Politics

    Jeff's Taiwan
    Longtime expat and local history buff

    Jerome F. Keating's writings
    Historian and writer on things Taiwan

    Kelake
    Design and Life on The Beautiful Isle

    Keywords
    P. Kerim Friedman's wide ranging and insightful blog

    Laowiseass
    Wire service reporter in Taiwan

    the leaky pen
    Life in Taiwan and in the University system

    Letters from Taiwan
    Pics and Commentary on Taiwan

    Lief in Taiwan
    Sumptuous Pics, Learned Commentary

    The Life of Brian
    Commentary from Prof and Hypnotist

    The Mandate of Heaven
    Wulingren on Taiwan

    media diary
    Cinema in Taiwan

    memoirs on a rainy day
    Beautiful pics, great commentary

    Misadventures in Taiwan
    Podcasts and video from Tainan

    Mixed Eggs I have Met
    Pix, commentary on life in Taiwan

    MoShang
    Podcasting and Musical Performance in Taiwan

    My Several Worlds
    A Global Mind in Asia

    Naruwan Formosa
    Politics and Life on the Beautiful Island

    The Nebulon Fry
    ESL teaching, musings on life & stuff

    The New Hampshire Bushman in Taiwan and The World
    Tea, GPS, and good times in Taiwan

    New Writing
    Living in Taipei.

    Ni Howdy
    The Ba-Gua Shan of Taichung Blogs

    Notes from a Small Island
    27, British, and in Taipei

    Notes of a former native speaker
    Jonathon Benda's excellent Taiwan blog

    The Only Redhead in Taiwan
    Redheaded contemplation of Taiwan

    Pashan
    Hiking in Taiwan, great pics

    Patrick Cowsill
    From Wanhua, Taiwan

    Pinyin News
    News and Commentary on Chinese Language in Taiwan

    Poagao's Journal
    Bands, Movies, Life in Taipei

    Portnoy in Between
    A window into the local blogosphere

    Prince Roy
    Blog of US consular official in Taiwan

    Rank
    Notes from the overpass, a day-to-day look at life in Taiwan

    The Real Taiwan
    Commentary on Life in Taiwan

    Red A -- the Blog
    Powered by alcohol, the clean fuel

    The Regulatory
    The Sound and the Fury

    R.O.C. the Boat
    Blogging Taiwan's UN membership drive

    SanBeiJi
    Pics and Travels in Taiwan

    Scott Sommers' Taiwan Blog
    Internationally popular blog on Taiwan and education

    The Shorty Method
    A personal approach to living.

    Sofa in the Sky
    Prose Poetry on Taiwan

    Sponge Bear
    Pix, commentary on central Taiwan

    Stinky Tofu
    Strange tales of Taiwan from a Lonely Planet writer.

    Steven Crook
    Local reporter and writer on Taiwan.

    Stranger in an even Stranger Land
    Teaching English in Kaohsiung

    The Tainan Don
    Observations from the South

    The Taipei Kid
    One of the most widely read Taiwan blogs

    Taipei Trash
    Pics and Commentary from Taipei

    Taiwan Airpower Blog
    Blog Devoted to the Taiwan Air Force

    The Taiwan Chronicles
    Living and working in Taiwan

    Taiwan Composite
    Business and culture on the Beautiful Isle.

    The Taiwandesk
    Things Taiwan

    Taiwanese Heart, Global Perspectives
    Group blog on Taiwan Politics

    Taiwanindependence
    Blog on TI

    Taiwan Matters!
    Politics from veteran Taiwan Bloggers

    Taiwanonymous
    Musings About Life in Taiwan

    Taiwan Pundit
    News from Taiwan

    Taiwan Tourism Bureau Blog
    Taiwan Tourism Bureau's information filled blog

    Talking Taiwanese
    Language education in Taiwan

    Taoyuan Nights
    From Taoyuan, Taiwan

    That's Impossible: Politics from Taiwan
    Taiwan Politics

    Thirsty Ghosts
    A group blog from local foreign media reps

    Tumbling in Taiwan
    An Indian in Hsinchu

    Wandering to Tamshui
    Politics and Daily Happenings on Taiwan

    The Wild East
    The One-Stop Blogspot of the Radio Banciao collective

    Wild at Heart
    Blog of Taiwan environmental group

    Winkler Partners
    Law Firm's Blog with many useful resources

    Writer's Block
    Taiwan Woman's Life Here and Abroad

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