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May 10th, 2008

Taiwan: April 26th 2008, a Usual Day and a Special Day

I-fan Lin · 23:44

lingua → sq · mk

190 photographers all over Taiwan took their cameras and pressed the shutter for the photo blogging relay to make a 24-hr record of Taiwan. These photos and links are uploaded to this blog on May 5th: 0 comments · »»

May 5th, 2008

Taiwan: What can a baseball do?

I-fan Lin · 05:43

lingua → mk · sq

There are some Taiwanese playing in Major League Baseball: Chin-Feng Chen in Dodgers from 2002-2005, Chin-Lung Hu in Dodgers, Hong-Chih Kuo in Dodgers, Chin-Hui Tsao in Royals, and Chien-Ming Wang in Yankees. Although they are loved by Taiwanese, these baseball stars are not the focus of this article. ... 0 comments · »»

April 23rd, 2008

Taiwan: What is the dream we have in the Olympic Game?

I-fan Lin · 14:02

lingua → bn · mg

Before an ancient Olympic Game, ancient Greek people ignited a torch before Temple of Olympian Zeus.[...] The torch holder would run and shout, 'stop wars to join the Olympics!' Where the torch went, where the war stopped.[...] Greek people went to the Olympic Game, and they forgot hatred and war. As a result, torch, which is a tool for sending signals, becomes a symbol for peace, light, and friendship. 39 comments · »»

March 31st, 2008

Taiwan: Voices after Presidential Election

Ming-Hsien Lee · 17:17

lingua → zht · zhs

March 22 is Taiwan's presidential election held once every four years. The victory is belonging to KMT's Ma Ying-jeou, who got 60 percent of votes and 2 million votes than the other candidate, Frank Hsieh from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). KMT lost the political power since DPP became the ruling party eight years ago. Now they are back and complete the second-round trasition of political power. After the election, in addition to the election result reported by Taiwan and international press, bloggers in Taiwan have many comments on democracy development, hot and criticism for two parties, and relationship between Taiwan and China. 4 comments · »»

March 26th, 2008

Taiwan: Religious buildings–a way to explore how cultures mix

I-fan Lin · 15:05

lingua → es

The popular image of multi-culturalism as a mosaic, a salad bowl in which different cultures mix but keep their integrity, is misleading. Cultures are more like soups, flavored with many ingredients, some identifiable. --From the book ‘Cultures and societies in a changing world,’ written by Wendy Griswold. Taiwan has ... 1 comment · »»

March 25th, 2008

Taiwan: Support for Tibet

I-fan Lin · 14:59

For Tibetan independence movement, most Taiwanese support and sympathize Tibetans, and many people changed their twitter profile figure to the flag of Tibet which represents Tibetan independence movement. 'Free Tibet' (Photo courtesy of skydaughter.) Many artists, writers, musicians, and social movement participants held 'Bringing love to Tibet' to pray for Tibetans: 多年來，台灣年輕志工的身影，經常出現在全球各地需要協助的所在。如今，與台灣只隔著中國的西藏，受到暴力鎮壓，台灣年輕人感同身受，決心挺身聲援，用音樂、詩歌聲援西藏。 Young volunteers ... 55 comments · »»

Taiwan: Racial Commercials Everywhere

Portnoy · 07:23

On Taiwan's TV screens there is a commercial about drawing lots of cars. In this commercial, a woman with south-east Asia look is driving a car, and the subtitle says:"How can she own a car?" Is this a question? How cannot a south-east Asia woman own a car in Taiwan? When ... 4 comments · »»

March 17th, 2008

Japan: Support for Tibet

Chris Salzberg · 09:47

lingua → zht · zhs

As fires rage on in the streets of Lhasa, bloggers in another part of the world have been anxiously following developments in Tibet with open eyes and open ears. Over the weekend, as mainstream media in Japan presented what many criticized as toned-down coverage of ongoing events in Lhasa, the word "Tibet" climbed to number one on Japanese blog search engines with thousands of entries largely in support of the uprising. 85 comments · »»

Links

April 21st, 2008

Summer from Coolloud comments on the recent nationalistic protest in China and finds the populist sentiment very scary [zh].

April 14th, 2008

winddriver compares the 314 Tibet incident with the 228 incident in Taiwan [zh].

April 8th, 2008

Michael Turton comments on the newly elected president Ma Ying-jeou's visit to Chiang Kai-shek's mausoleum to commemorate the anniversary of the his death.

March 31st, 2008

Blog worker wrote a letter to gutsy youths who vote to use counter culture spirit for changes in Taiwan [zh].

March 26th, 2008

David on Formosa collected English bloggers' thoughts on Taiwan's Presidential Election that just finished on March 22. “Frank Hsieh has announced that he will resign as DPP chairman. Expect some major personnel changes in the DPP in the next few months. The next key things to watch for are whether President-elect Ma visits the US or other countries before he is sworn in on 20 May and who he appoints to the cabinet. ” said David.

I'm Vlog has a video spoofing the election advertisement for promoting an online game: “Let's change the future!”

March 24th, 2008

Micheal Turton wrote a fictional future report on Taiwan economic and political development under Ma Ying-jeou presidency from 2008-2016.

DPP candidate Frank Hsieh lost 2.21 million votes to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou in the Taiwan in the weekend presidential election; SpinalCord voted for Ma because the blogger found DPP had failed his expectation in the past 8 years. He hope DPP can reflect upon its failure and become a better party in the future [zh].