Every year Travel + Leisure releases their list of the world’s best hotel awards ranking the top accommodation options. Looking at the top hotels list for hotels and resorts in Asia 2009, India, Thailand, China and Hong Kong dominate the list.
Following are the top Asian hotels in the best world hotels list for the [...]
There are some really great English language Taiwan blogs out there, and almost every week I discover another one that’s worth keeping track of. With 2010 almost in, I thought I’ll do a special 2009 summary tribute of the top of Taiwan’s expat blogosphere.
Note : I urge my fellow Taiwan bloggers to do the same. [...]
The 2009 Miss Universe Pageant is held at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. Following our annual routine, we take a quick look at this year’s global perceptions of Asian beauty through the national contestants. Last year’s (2008) Miss Universe was Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza, and it was Miss Japan that made Asian beauty proud [...]
Trying to figure out the top ranking universities in Asia? Let me help you out.
Following is the best of the top world university rankings for the Asian academic universities analyzed for year 2009. Many of the leading rankings for 2009 still didn’t come out, but since I’ve been asked about this, I’ll post [...]
Yedihut Aharonot – Israel’s most popular newspaper – ran a story in December about Taiwan’s education system. The evening I was heading out to Korea, I received a phone-call from the Israeli correspondent for the newspaper in Beijing asking me what I thought of the topic. The story was initiated due to yet another decline [...]
There are a few world university rankings that came out during the past few months and so it’s an opportunity to refresh my rankings watchlist for Asia’s best universities.
Various other rankings posts include:
Top Asian Academic Universities in World University Rankings 2009
Asian academic research and the top research universities in Asia 2007
Best universities in [...]
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 [...]
