David on Formosa

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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The tenth Taipei Film Festival (台北電影節) will be held from 20 June to 6 July 2008. It features some 250 films from around the world.

In Wuchang Street in Ximending there is a special event in conjunction with the festival called the Taipei Movie Walk. The Outdoor Cinema Park has an exhibition of hand painted movie [...]

This is a guest post from Glen Clifford, a freelance journalist based in Taipei. His website is oodio.net.
Well Computex is over for yet another year and I have to tell you, this year the show was even bigger (4,492 booths!) even better, even brighter and - well - not so noisy.  Yes, we had the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

U-Theatre (優人神鼓) held a free outdoor concert titled Sound of the Ocean (聽海之心) at Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall last night to celebrate their twentieth anniversary. The concert marked the end of their 50 day, 1,200 kilometre walk around Taiwan. During the walk they performed 30 concerts.

U-Theatre is a Zen drumming group. They featured [...]

Bike Day is an annual event in Taiwan held on the first weekend of May. It was held for the first time last year and is organised by the Cycling Lifestyle Foundation (自行車新文化基金會). Events were held in every city and county of Taiwan and I attended the Taipei City event. The ride began at Dajia [...]

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 [...]