Fili’s world

Through TaiwanTony, I found out about the English CNN interview with Ma Ying Jiu in “Talk Asia”. It’s the easiest most sympathetic interview Ma could have hoped for and although it was a bit shallow, if not naive, it was still very interesting to watch.
At the beginning Ma seemed held-back and shy, which keeps surprising me. [...]

A few months ago I participated in a study performed by first year undergraduates students in NCKU as part of a university program to encourage Taiwanese undergraduates to tackle English academic level research during their first year with the university. A worthy goal indeed.
This study was especially interesting for me since it was dealing [...]

This is a question I hear alot. It’s also usually followed by “Do you recommend NCKU?”. I get lots of emails and blog comments asking me about NCKU, universities in Taiwan, programs offered, rankings, and the Taiwanese education system. Though I don’t consider myself a big expert, I do have some experience with trying to [...]

It’s been a few years since Taiwan announced the plans for promoting the Taiwanese universities into the top of university world rankings. The Australians have recently published an in-depth analysis of the program with details I wasn’t able to find anywhere else on the English web. I strongly recommend that you read through the Australian [...]

Finding an incoming link from Yahoo Answers on a Taiwan related question I searched the website for questions about Taiwan and it turns out Yahoo Answers has some really interesting information and discussions on a number of Taiwan related subjects. It’s not your regular Taiwan cynical Forumosa addicts bunch.
Take this first one that came [...]

IMHO, Taiwan blogs have the best English content about Taiwan. When I’m looking for something, like a travel destination, blogs are the first place I go to. This is why back in Q4/2006 I introduced the Taiwan blog search. It allows a quick search through over 400 Taiwan blogs. I haven’t updated the list [...]