Archive for December, 2011
Taiwan’s best blogs in 2011
Taiwanderful recently announced the 2011 Taiwan Best Blog Awards. To enter your blog you need to make sure you are registered at Taiwanderful before 10 December. Voting will take place from 10-30 December. I am no longer directly involved in running the awards but this blog will not be entered in the awards even though [...]
Posted: December 8th, 2011 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
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Foreign observers needed for election
I had a letter about the need for election observers published in the Taipei Times today. While I hope the forthcoming election will be trouble free, I note in the letter that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) supporters have engaged in violent protests following election losses in 2000 and 2004. The risk of violent protests destabilising the political [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under News & media, Taiwan.
Tags: election, politics, taipei times
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Building a Taiwanease community
The website Taiwanease, with the slogan “Making Taiwan easy!”, is the brainchild Anthony van Dyck. Some readers may know Anthony as a long term resident of Taiwan and for his ten year involvement with the well-known online discussion forum Forumosa.com. Taiwanease is a new and expanded website where Anthony is continuing to build an online community. I [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2011 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: Taiwanease
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