Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white The Taiwan “Olympics” - Article for Israeli Calcalist Love Kaohsiung Music Festival at Sizihwan : A Night of Old Taiwanese Songs Taiwan’s street food : the “food trucks”
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 Chinese perception of Israeli media coverage of the China Olympics
Freedom-house, "an independent non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world", has issued its annual report this week called "Freedom of the World" detailing ranking for freedom in countries around the world. The report ranks every country on a seven point scale in two categories - "political rights" (PR) and "civil liberties" [...]
There’s a new beta project I’m experimenting with called Chinalyst at http://www.chinalyst.net . Chinalyst is meant to be a community for English language bloggers writing about anything China related. It works on the basis of an aggregator to blog feeds provided by blog owners ontop of which the members of the community [...]
There's no denying that eastern and western cultures are different. As an Israeli writing about Asia I believe one of the biggest differences between representing countries of each culture are when contrasting the Japanese culture and the Israeli culture.
Here's a funny bit from Nafka Mina - an English written blog by an Israeli who [...]
The question of whether the authorities in China have something against Lonely Planet, or any other western publishing acknowledging any kind of independence for Taiwan, is far more sensitive than I ever imagined. I’ve been getting some weird emails and comments lately regarding this issue, since it seems that I ‘started it’ and that I’ve [...]
Shanghai Daily brings a new insight into the Chinese sexual habits with a captivating article about a Chinese women claiming compensation for her sex life after her husband was injured and could no longer "perform" to her satisfaction.
The buzz over the Chinese sex life and sexual habits got a big boost in attention this past [...]
After spending over three weeks here in London-UK there are things I see and experience everyday which I'm curious about. Of that very big list of things, here are 10 quick observations, which are probably all incorrect :
Londoners love to stand up - They're always standing up. There could be loads of empty seats just [...]
