2 Things Taiwan Does Well: Leggy Girls & Sweet Desserts
…and if you’re a red-blooded male, you might consider the two one and the same. Let’s start with the dessert…the edible one. Er, the ones you can buy. Aw, dammit, I mean the ones that can either be...
View ArticleJohn Fan: The China Internet Market For Taiwanese Companies
John Fan introduced his Facebook Application development company, Cardinal Blue Software, along with their headline app/game, Friend Stock, at Barcamp Shanghai 2009, while sharing some insights on...
View ArticleThe Chinese Tourist (In The Eyes of The Taiwanese)
Just last year, both online and print media have been fussing over the fact that “The Chinese are coming!” I remember China Daily publishing an informative piece about The Chinese Wave. Some excerpts...
View ArticleTaiwanese Identity Survey: False Choice, Nationalism, Regionalism
Source: Tiac via Flickr Taiwan’s Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) recently published the results of its survey on political and ethnic views. From the Taipei Times– The survey...
View ArticleDeaflympics, World Games, Lamas, & Cross-Strait Relations
Nowadays, it really is difficult to predict what Taipei and Beijing’s moves are with regards to improving (or making a stale mate of) their cross-strait relations. At first, with the election of Ma...
View ArticleiPartment: Hot Teen Girls Want to Move In With You, Online
Hello there! Teenagers are apt to experiment, and the Chinese are no exception. iPartment, or “love apartment” (爱情公寓) in Chinese, creates an online home that appeals to young, affluent women (about 60%...
View ArticleTaiwan Is A Renegade Province Because China Says So
…which is one of the lousiest arguments I’ve ever heard in the never-ending debate over whether Taiwan is an independent state or merely a renegade province that rightfully belongs to the PRC. It is my...
View ArticleTaipei & Beijing To Set Up Tourism Offices By February 2010
At the opening of the 2009 Taipei International Travel Fair last October 21, Lai Seh-jen, director-general of the Tourism Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, announced that...
View ArticleStanford’s FACES Student Exchange Program Experiences
Obama and Hu have pledged for 100,000 American students to come to China over the next four years (up from the current 13,000 a year), so what could that look like? US Ambassador Huntsman addressed...
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