Boosting Competitiveness in Taiwan's Universities
DPA reports via Earth Times:Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday urged Taiwan universities to recruit foreign students to boost the island's international competitiveness and keep themselves in business. Because of Taiwan's low birthrate, the island's university have difficulty in recruiting students and dozens of them might

Riding to the heart of 921
Saturday morning I drove out to Nantou with my friend Drew and met up with Todd Alperovitz from The Daily Bubble Tea in Chunghsing Village. From there we began climbing....Here is the route we took (an interactive version may

The Once and Future US Retreat on China's Colonial Expansion?
Apologies for the light blogging; just swamped with work this week.The US State Department's latest version of its background notes on Taiwan are out, so it is appropriate that we glance at US-Taiwan-China relations....The Taipei Times hosted a commentary today from former Japanese diplomat Hisahiko Okazaki

Shocked-I-Tell-You Events
Happiness is an office decorated with my daughter's paintings.I was shocked, I tell you shocked, to learn that Premier Wu Den-yih, back before he received his promotion to his current exalted state, traveled to Bali Island in Indonesia with a prominent Nantou gangster back in December, as the pro

Fourth Round of ECFA Talks Postponed
Breaking news this evening as the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), which does not, as its title would suggest, help Taishang manage their mistresses in Shenzhen, announced that the fourth "informal" round of ECFA talks has been postponed.Huang Chih-peng, chief of the Bureau of Foreign Trade under the Economics Ministry, said that the ministry had already received