David on Formosa

• Michael Turton and Ben Goren on the Taichung shooting incident.
• Oiwan Lam at Global Voices rounds up the blogosphere’s response to the Chen Shui-bian corruption scandal.
• Pinyin News has a couple of interesting posts about the numbers of people learning Mandarin in UK degree programs and post-secondary schools in the USA.
• Pashan hikes the Pingxi crags.
• Sponge Bear on Japan, Taiwan and the US cooperating.
• Arbiter of Waste on the return of crony capitalism.
• Scott Sommers on the cost of education.
• Biking in Taiwan rides the Hengchun Peninsula.
• A-gu on the birds around his home.

In the news: The Olympics finish with Taiwanese athletes collecting a total of 4 bronze medals. AFP on the greening of Ghost Month. Bloomberg on the growth of Taiwan’s solar industry.

Events: Bike Smiling (微笑單車上路) is on at 7:00pm Friday 29 August starting from the main gate of NTU in Taipei. There is also a ride in Kaohsiung.

I am once again regularly updating the shared items from Google Reader. Also check out the Taiwan blog directory at Taiwanderful which has a RSS feed.