18 Feb, 2007 in Asia-Israel connections, Taiwan

The Chinese New Years was surprisingly fun and I got to meet a lot of wonderful people and experience some new things.
First, there was the official Taiwanese new years celebration in the Taiwanese ambassador’s house. Coming with me from Jerusalem were the girl in charge of the Korean center in Jerusalem and a Taiwanese student at the [...]

I thought newspapers here will be full of Chinese New Year world coverage, but after some quick browsing of the leading local websites it’s embarrassing to admit the fact that I’ve found absolutely nothing - the world’s biggest holiday goes unnoticed in this part of the world.
But still, the Chinese embassy held an official get-together yesterday [...]

16 Feb, 2007 in Taiwan

The Taiwan based English language bloggers and the Taiwanese Chinese language bloggers are attempting to bridge between their two blogospheres, and that’s something I’m very excited about. Following the top English language blogs about the Taiwan for over a year now I’ve rarely ventured into the unknown Chinese blogosphere, mostly because I had no idea where [...]

Israeli blogs about Chinese culture are quite rare, Chinese/Taiwanese blogs about Israel are even harder to find, but what I thought I would never find is an Israeli writing about Chinese culture in Chinese. I don’t read that much Chinese and what I do read takes me a very long time and so the chances of me [...]

14 Feb, 2007 in Taiwan

Which are the top universities in Taiwan? I’ve been looking into the Taiwanese university world and their recent rankings, trying to figure out how the university system in Taiwan works and ranks internally.
While visiting the Taiwan culture office in London, they gave me an information CD covering all the universities in Taiwan, which I uploaded [...]

13 Feb, 2007 in China, Israel

The Israeli Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor has an interesting website on the business relations between Israel and China.

Israel’s Trade Mission to China is a professional unit of the Foreign Trade Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which was established in order to promote, enhance and facilitate the economic [...]