Archive for 'Photos'
Cycling along the Tonghou River
A while back I wrote about cycling to Wulai and noted that the road continued on past the police checkpoint and up into the mountains. I took advantage of the perfect weather today to ride further up the road along the Tonghou River (桶后溪).
This area is popular with cyclists, hikers and people that just [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2008 under Cycling, Photos, Taipei County, Taiwan.
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Action for Burma in Taipei
Free Burma protest in Taipei
19 June is Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday and an international day of action for the people of Burma. The Taiwan Free Burma Network (台灣自由緬甸網絡) organised a protest outside the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei. Members of the Burmese community and other groups also took part.
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Posted: June 20th, 2008 under Human rights, Photos, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Photo in Sky Couch magazine
A photo I took last year in Danshui has been published in the June 2008 edition of Sky Couch, the inflight magazine of China Airlines (中華航空). The photo accompanies a trilingual (English, Chinese and Japanese) story titled "Scenic cycling".
The article by Rick Charette notes, "there were less than 100km of designated bike routes on [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under Cycling, Photos, Taiwan.
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Concert for Burma in Taipei
The Burma (Myanmar) Cyclone Relief Concert was held at 4 4 South Village (四四南村) in Taipei yesterday. A great line up of bands performed to raise awareness and funds for the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma.
The first band I saw was Underflow (暗流樂團). Their singer is from Shan State. His cousin also sang [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2008 under Photos, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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The freedom to play football
Last night I attended a screening of the documentary The Forbidden Team. It was organised by Amnesty International (國際特赦組織) in Taipei. The film is about the Tibetan national football team and their efforts to play their first international match against Greenland in Denmark in 2001.
The film details the formation of the team from the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2008 under Human rights, Movies, Photos, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Cosplay at Petit Fancy
Yesterday I went to Petit Fancy 8 at NTU to capture some of the cosplay action. Todd, Darren (also with a new WordPress blog) and Craig were also there and I suggest you check out their pics. Also have a look at Bryan Wu's photoset at flickr. I have uploaded more of my photos to [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2008 under Photos, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Indigenous conference in Taipei
I attended the 2008 World Summit of Indigenous Cultures (全球原住民文化會議) in Taipei over the weekend. The conference included speeches, musical performances and an open space forum. Indigenous people from The Philippines, Canada and the USA attended as well as many indigenous people from Taiwan and academics and researchers.
On Saturday night there was a welcome banquet [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Environment, Human rights, Photos, Taiwan, Taiwan Studies.
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Second trip to Smangus
On Saturday I went on my second trip to Smangus. The weather was perfect and it was a great day to travel in the mountains. This time I travelled with my NCCU classmate Sandy and her husband. Sandy has worked as a primary school in some of the villages in this area. We stopped at [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2008 under Photos, Taiwan, Taiwan Studies, Travel, Xinzhu.
Comments: 5