David on Formosa

Hanjie on the use of human flesh search engines in Taiwan. Pinyin News explains how to write verbs in Hanyu Pinyin. A hungry girl recommends Shin Yeh Table. Save the Dolphins has before and after photos of the Songshan Tobacco Factory site and photos of humpback dolphins. Taiwanonymous on naming conventions of movies and how [...]

The Bitan Music Festival was a series of free concerts held on the bank of the Xindian River in Bitan. The festival began on 10 January with performances every weekend. I only attended a few days of musical performances, but I saw some fantastic performances. Yerboli Ahmethan (葉爾波利) is a Kazakh musician from Xinjiang, China. [...]

Clare Wang (王秀毓) from Taiwan has won the wild card vote in The Best Job in the World, a tourism promotion activity by Tourism Queensland. She received a total of 151,676 votes, almost three times more than the second place getter. Entrants in the contest had to produce a 60-second video explaining why they should [...]

Global Voices on reactions to the Kuo Kuan-ying controversy. Claudia Jean on the case against Kuo. Michael Turton on the process being the new status quo. Andres has photos of Yingge. Craig has five photos for Friday. Reports on Taipei Cycle from Robert, Joshua Samuel Brown and MJ Klein. Photos by Josh. A hungry girl [...]

A few days ago the Taiwan News reported  global warming is causing Taiwan’s sea level to rise: Sea levels around the world are gradually on the rise due to global warming, said the report. In his research several years ago, Fan discovered that Taiwan’s sea level was rising at an annual average of 0.32 cm, [...]

Taipei Cycle 2009 is now on at the Nangang Exhibition Centre. In the middle of the exhibition hall on the fourth floor were all the big names in cycling: Giant, Merida, Dahon, Campagnolo, Shimano and SRAM. Elsewhere there were all sorts of bicycles, accessories and activities. I visited the show yesterday and my report and [...]