There's something addicting about starting off in a new place, I realize that now. Routine, for people like myself, is something that's a bit hard to bare. Difficulties are sometimes annoying, but are usually quite exciting, especially if they seem to work themselves out in a magical way. Oddities, in both people and culture, could [...]
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A different look at Asia, China and TaiwanLatest
A few weeks ago I went to visit Taichung, and saw a few cool spots. Visiting [...]
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Taiwan
Touring Taichung : Big Laughing Buddha, Art Street and Jing Ming Apartment Hunting in Tainan revisited Taiwan’s English Blogosphere - Introducing Expat Bloggers to local Taiwanese Best Taiwan blog awards – Voting now open on TaiwanderfulChina
The Chinese Israel bashing in response to China bashing on Israeli media Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari
The Chinalysis is my humble roundup of special blog and media articles I read regarding China and Chinese culture.
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Virtual China has a unique hi-tech China related story about the Digg battles between the international Digg and the Chinese version with "Web 2.0 cross-cultural mobs : Digg battles" :
Some Diggers didn't take kindly to a [...]
Israel shows support for Taiwan in the upcoming UN bid and it doesn't take long for China to react with a diplomatic crisis. Israeli YNet news agency summarizes:
After the Chinese found out the five were in Taiwan, the Chinese Ambassador in Israel Chen Yonglong asked MK Dani Yatom (Labor) for an urgent meeting with him [...]
12 Sep, 2006 in
China
According to Hong Kong newspaper reports, information from Ruian city (Wenzhou), 30-year-old female teacher Dai Haijing fell out of her apartment to her death on August 18. The police said that she committed suicide, but the residents believed that it was related to her husband. Furthermore, they believed that someone paid off the authorities. Therefore, [...]
11 Sep, 2006 in
Asia-Israel connections, China
Su Fei strikes again, in what's probably the best blogging production I've seen about China - Danwei's Sexy Beijing . After the big "Sex and Shanghai" Chinabounder blog scandal Su Fei gets some pretty amazing responses in the beginning of this new episode.
Su Fei : Do you have Chinese girlfriends? The foreigner : Yep. [...]
The "Jerusalem Post " has an illuminating article about the recent visit made by 5 members of the Israeli Parliament to Taiwan and the ties formed between Israel and Taiwan despite the threats made by China.
This visit of the Israeli representatives comes at a crucial time to Taiwan as Taiwan attempts to re-join the UN [...]