David on Formosa

After the first day of the Lunar New Year passed uneventfully I joined the mass exodus from Taipei to places further south. I met a friend at Taipei Station a little before 9:00 am and we were able to purchase a ticket to Taichung on the High Speed train for 11:00 am that day. There [...]

Happy Niú Year! Shan Ding Lu has a photo essay of Daliao, site of the recent poisonous gas leaks. Scott Sommers gives an overview of English teaching jobs in Taiwan. Tim Maddog writes down is up in Ma’s world. Fili recommends places to eat in Tainan. Mouse Eared Kiwi on the New Year party at [...]

Plaque bearing the Chinese characters for Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (photo taken 19 January 2009) The Taipei Times today reports that the military honor guard has been restored to the hall in central Taipei which contains a large statue honoring former dictator Chiang Kai-shek. The guards were earlier removed by the DPP government when it [...]

Two articles recently published in Science help confirm the “Out of Taiwan” theory on the origins of human migration across the Pacific. Wired Science reports: By tracking the evolution of language and gut bacteria, scientists may have settled a debate over the spread of humans across the Pacific. The evolutionary trajectory implied by words and [...]

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM; 臺北市立美術館) currently has an exhibition of photography by Lee Ming-tiao (李鳴鵰). Lee is one of Taiwan’s most influential photographers and the exhibition provides a comprehensive look at his life’s work. The exhibition begins with Lee’s black and white photos of Taiwan taken during the late 1940s and 1950s. These [...]

Fili analyses the top Taiwan blogs. Claudia Jean on more concerns about the future of the Talking Show. Jerome Keating compares Freedom House’s rankings of Taiwan and China. Paul Katz at China Beat describes the Lantern Festival in Taiwan. In 2009 it begins on 9 February. A-gu notes two interesting motions passed in the Legislature. [...]