A few weeks back, during the Olympic games in Beijing, I wrote about China bashing in some of the Israeli media and my concern over the uprising trend of biased if not ignorant reporting about China. I was attempting to promote more cultural understanding and sensitivity in media reporting and highlight some of the [...]
As part of the visit of Technion president to NCKU, we were invited for a presentation of a new project currently being developed in NCKU, combining Electrical Engineering, Industrial Design and Creative Design of professors from the Tainan area universities, led by NCKU.
I got permission to take a few videos and post them here. They [...]
I’m the only Israeli student in southern Taiwan, as far as I’m aware, and although it sounds a bit culturally lonely, it does bring up some unique opportunities. During Friday and Saturday I joined the Israeli Technion president, Dr. Yitzhak Apeloig, while he was visiting NCKU with his charming wife – Mrs. Tzippi Apeloig. It [...]
The Chen Shui Bian scandal is always on the news. What a mess. Another article I wrote for Israeli Calcalist, this time about the Chen Shui Bian scandal in Taiwan.
Here’s the Hebrew article, followed by a very quick English translation :
שערוריה תוצרת טייוואן
הנשיא לשעבר צ’ן שווי ביאן הודה כי כ-25 מיליון דולר מכספי קמפיין בחירות [...]
Michael Turton and his race for the best Taiwan politics blog (go vote) got me motivated to put up a small blog awards for our little blogosphere. Hope you’ll like the idea and would want to take part.
Information is posted here : http://www.taiwanderful.net/blog/taiwan-best-blog-awards-2008
Voting will begin on the 1/10 and will close 31/10, registration of blogs [...]
As I was walking around with a Taiwanese local we came across this wonderful toy shop full of old Taiwanese games. The special thing about this shop, we soon realized, was this adorable old Taiwanese lady who gave us alot of her time and demonstrated some amazing game skills.
Let’s start with the easy stuff :
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In the past year of studying with NCKU, some of the international students of the student council were continuously making an effort to help the university go global. We’ve offered practical help and endless suggestions as to what we think the school can do to improve in that area. One of those areas was international [...]
Through an Israeli blog on stamps I came across this fascinating story about a stamp that was issued in Communist China on November 1968 called “The entire nation is red”. Have a close look :
There’s an interesting story behind this (source) :
The stamp was quickly withdrawn from circulation because Taiwan, which is claimed by the [...]
