NCTU, National Chiao Tung (Jiao Tung) University, actually has two options for the business school. The first one was just across the street from my love hotel at the Taipei Main Station area, and the second one’s in Hsinchu (Xinzhu).
I visited NCTU Taipei on my first day in Taiwan. The business school is holding a few floors in the very old Taipei main post office just across the street from the old northern gate (beimen). A very friendly guy greeted me at the entrance hall telling me he just finished his PhD exams and offered me his help in looking around. He kindly took me to see the 2 floors of the small branch showing me the labs and halls. I even …

Taipei <yaZ!> The EVA-Air flight from Bangkok to Taipei was wonderful. This will join the list of top flights I’ve been to together with Singapore Airlines from Brisbane->Singapore->Bangkok and Virgin Airlines from London->New York. Comfortable, modern with a very kind and professional service. I still can’t get over the differences between the noise on Israeli flights and being able to actually hear the aircon working in Asian flights. Taiwan is trying hard to promote international tourism and it shows. In the Taipei airport, previously called Chang-Kai-Shek but now changed to Taoyuan, I found signs mentioning the new Youth Travel Card and pointing my way to a lovely lady who signed me up. Thing didn’t work out perfectly, …

Bangkok…. <yawn> The El-Al flight from Israel to Thailand has been as awful as I expected it to be. An ex-Israeli now-Australian elderly has been preaching to me the whole way why Brisbane is where I should be heading and why he had enough of Israel. They don’t have good Humus in Australia, though, he summarized. Bangkok has a new airport, they’re really improving. Thailand has a whole new cost of living for tourists. Stronger Baht (1US$ = ~33 Baht instead of ~40Baht a year ago) and high demand for just about everything Thai caused prices for tourists to go up between 10 to 50 percent since last year. Maybe the same thing happened in Israel with the Shekel, I’m not sure. Kao Shan Rd. is more commercial …

"Thai what?", she stares at me with a silly look. "Sima… Sima! over here! did we ever have anybody go to - what did you say that country was again? Thai wand, he says… what’s the capital of Thai wand?" and then I hear that Sima girl proclaim - "I checked, there’s no such country".
Yep, been there before. Those who know me and my obsession with Taiwan and China are already fluent with the local politics and can repeat the names of the university cities if asked at 2am, but all those people I had to deal with in the …

Now in Israel - Chinese and Taiwanese fight over a Taiwan flag display in one small Israeli folk dance festival almost no one I know has heard of.
Here’s from Taipei Times’  "Dance turns nationalist at Israeli folkdance festival":
 

Chinese performers at an international folkdance festival in Israel touched off a diplomatic flap earlier this month by snatching a Taiwanese flag during the festival and bullying the Taiwanese troupe in attendance as they tried to protect their flag, Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials said yesterday.
Performing at the "22nd International Folkdance Festival" in Israel by invitation, a Hsinchu-based folkdance troupe was forced to protect its national flag as culture gave way to politics and dance to violence, said Antonio Chen …

While the other Israeli blogs on China are disappearing, it’s nice to find new ones. Naama and Zohar left to southern China and have been writing about their lives in a new Hebrew blog translated "Just like home, but completely different".
Here’s a quick translation from their introduction:

When we went to study Humanities, we didn’t think much of it. "What ever will be will be" we told ourselves. "We’re going to need a Masters in something, so why not enjoy ourselves in the meanwhile?", so here - not too many years …