David on Formosa

• Transitional justice seems like a theme for this week. Bent analyses the issue, Jerome Keating writes about the KMT's Smoking Gun and will the KMT ever own up? The Foreigner discusses responsibility for 228.
• Learning Mandarin Chinese Insights talks about Western Culture from a Chinese Perspective. This blog has some very interesting posts about language learning.
• A-gu on Taiwanese culture: 足俗 (tsiok sông).
• Canis Lupis reports on the Formoz Festival Day 1 and Day 2.
• Michael Turton goes hiking with his new camera.
• Tim Maddog tells why not all women go for Ma Ying-jeou.
• Wild at Heart writes about the endangered Formosan Sika Deer.
• Ron Brownlow at Thirsty Ghosts on how McDonalds will super-size you.
• Fishtail@Taipei has some great Taiwan photos at flickr.

Media: A good news story in the Taipei Times: 30 orphans from Yunlin ride their bikes around Taiwan.

Michael Turton will have more blog links later this week.