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 [...]
A few weeks back, during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote an article for an Israeli finance newspaper Calcalist about the upcoming Taiwanese Kaohsiung World Games 2009. It was published on the 13th of August in both paper (attached here) and the website. The editors titled it “The Taiwan ‘Olympics’”.
Following is the Hebrew article, followed by [...]
A few days ago I went to a music festival “Sunset on Sizihwan Bay and fall in love with Kaoshiung” (愛戀高雄). It was the last day of a long running festival going from the 6th of July till the 31st of August, featuring free parking, free water-banana and kayak rides and open performances of some [...]
I can’t help it. I find the question of whether Taiwan is more similar to Israel or Palestine intriguing, even though one can also easily claim that it’s similar to both or to neither. Aluf Ben has an interesting article in Haaretz from a few days back titled “The Taiwan of the Middle East” :
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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 [...]
Finally, Taiwanese TV popular culture makes it to Israel, with a wonderful effort in translating the Taiwan TV drama “Devil beside you” into Hebrew(traditional Chinese: 惡魔在身邊, Hebrew : השטן לצידך). The Asian TV drama craze in Israel began while I was still there with the wonderful Korean drama “My Lovely Sam Soon” making it into the [...]
It’s been brought to my attention the other night that I’m up on “The Real Taiwan” after John, his family and I went for a visit at Anping’s Fort “Old Street” (老街). I usually don’t enjoy seeing my photo on other blogs, but I honestly adore this next one (John – watermarks work! [...]
