Unrecognized
• 2008 Fri+00:002009-02-20T18:02:22+00:00. 15 • Leave a CommentPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, 228, aboriginal land rights, Admiral Shi Lang, After the arrival of Zheng Cheng-Gong, Although there were some proclamations made in 1945, belligerent occupation, Chapter II, Cheng Yi, Chiang Kai-Shek, China, China's Glory, Chinese and Taiwanese relations, Chinese Civil War, Chinese Nationalist Party, Chinese Revolution, Chinese Revolution of 1949, civil-taiwan.org, CKS, Conclusion, Democratic Progressive Party, dictatorship, DPP, For native Taiwanese persons to be bona fide ROC citizens, Formosa, Fujian, General MacArthur, General Order No. 1, Han Chinese, hyperinflation, Independent Sovereign State, Interesting Fact, Japan, Japan-China, Japan-China peace treaty, Japan-PRC Joint Communique, Japan-Taiwan relations, Japanese Courts, Japanese surrender, Kingdom of Tung-Ning, KMT, Koxinga, Lee Teng-Hui, Legislative Yuan, Ma Ying-Jeou, Ming Dynasty, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, missiles, MOFA, Nanjing Constitution, Occupation and Citizenship, One China Policy, Paracel Islands, party-state, Penghu, People's Republic of China, permanent population, Pescadores, province of China, Qing Dynasty, Question of Legal Basis, Reference tot he pronouncements of the US government, Republic of China, Republic of Formosa, return to China, ROC Constitution, ROC Constitution does not clearly define its own teritory, ROC Nationality Law, ROC was not the recipient of this sovereignty, San Francisco Conference, San Francisco Peace Treaty, San Francisco Treaty, SFPT, Shigemitsu, Significance of the 228 Revolution of 1947, Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty, Spratly, Sun Yat-Sen, Taihoku, Taiwan, Taiwan Aboriginal Rights, Taiwan Republic flag, Taiwan Retrocession Day, Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taiwan Think Tank, Tanaka Kakuei, temporary allegiance, Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion, territory, The Betrayal of the Kingdom, The military government of the principal occupying power, the PRC never controlled Taiwan or any of the current ROC territory commonly referred to as Taiwan, the principal occupying power, The Republic of China Constitution currently in use, The ROC Constitution currently in use, The United States is the conqueror, The US is the conqueror, Thinking Japanese, Three Kingdoms, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Treaty of Peace, Treaty of Taipei, TSU, U.N., United Nations, United States Military Government, US government, USMG, Where We Are, White Terror, With no clear legal basis, Yauo Fukuda, Yoshida Shigeru, Zheng Cheng-Gong, Zheng Jian, Zhou Enlai
NTD $100 Luck
• 2008 Thu+00:002009-02-19T16:57:55+00:00. 15 • 4 CommentsPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 100000 hair follicles, 12cm a year, avoid clothes in black and white, Benefiting From The Economy, buying a pair of shoes, Buying books, Certain religious groups, China, Chinese New Year, Electron micrograph, Electronmicrograph, even numbers, f100, foul languages, Funny Fact, getting a hair-cut, golden bowl, Hair-Cutting, Hong Kong, In the 1920's America, Japan, Jason, Male pattern baldness, Mohammad, Nail Cutting, NTD $100, NTD $100 in Taiwan, odd numbers, Offering anything in fours, Only in Taiwan, Other Should-Nots, Qing Dynasty, Rainie Yang, Regular hairdressing, Sam Zhu, Samson and Delilah, saying words like finished and gone, seven defined social values of hair throughout history, Shuan-Lian MRT station, Shuanglian MRT station, Shuanglian station, Singapore, Social Value, sweeping the floor, TaiChung, Taichung City, Taipei Main Station, Taiwan, talking about death, The African-American afro, the Christian Bible, The quality, the Spring Festival, Traditional Superstitions, USD $5 haircut, washing your hair, Western Superstition, What We Think We Know, While the amount of white or grey hair, Why we cut our hair
Romancing Taiwan
• 2008 Tue+00:002009-02-17T16:18:55+00:00. 15 • 4 CommentsPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 26 Annual International Chery Blossom Festival, A Pink Taiwan, Aboriginal Cherry Blossom Festival, Alishan, Annual Flower Festival, Asakiyumemishi, Buddhist literature, Buddhist poems, Buddhistic cherry blossom as the main focus, Central Taiwan, Chaoping train station, Cherry Blossom Festival, Cherry Blossom Petals, Cherry Isn't Poetry Life Is, Chiayi County, Chinatown, Chinatown of Atlanta, Enjoying The View, European Garden, Evening Cherry, Evening Cherry Blossom Activity, Falling Dizzy For Pink, Festival, Five Centimeters Per Second, Flowers and Greenery, Forest Orchid Trail, Formosa Aboriginal Culture Village, Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village, Heian-era, Heian-era literature, In 2007, In 2008, In Meaning, International Cherry Blossom Festival, Japan, Japanese Colonial Period, Kaleidoscope of Cultures, KaohSiung City Government, Kokin wakashū, Kwanzan Flowering Cherry, light carving technique, Lin Ren-Yih, Macon Georgia, mono no aware, More Than Just A Flower, Motoori Norinaga, Multiple Petals Flowering Cherry, Prince Genji, Sakura, Sakura in history, Sakura with cherry blossoms, Sun Moon Lake, Taipei City Park's Administration, Taiwan, TECO in Atlanta, The Asia's Odyssey, The Asian Odyssey, the most important metaphor, The Tale of Genji, Train, train services, Valentine's Day, What is Sakura, World Games, Wulai, Yan Chun-Cheng, Yang-Ming-Shan, Yangmingshan, Yangmingshan National Park, Yoshino cherry
Chinglish
• 2008 Mon+00:002009-02-16T14:33:33+00:00. 15 • 5 CommentsPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 1954 Japan cabinet, a Hanyu-Tonyong comparison chart, a living fossil, a three-year plan, Academica Sinica, Anschluss edict, anti-secession law, because more than 95 percent of the Chinese speaking population worldwide uses simplified characters, Bopomofo was replaced with pinyin in China in 1949, China, Chinese Nationalist Party, Chinese Phonetic Spelling, Democratic Progressive Party, Do we have to change our names, DPP, Executive Yuan, Fading Taiwan, failed to answer our questions, foreigners who do not understand Mandarin, Gaoxiong, Hakka, Hanyu Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin as the national standard, Hanyu Pinyin bring Taiwan closer to China, Hanyu Pinyin was to bring Taiwan in line with international standards, Hepburn, How can we the government ignore the fact that Taiwanese people have used a hyphen in their given names for about 20 to 30 years, International Organization for Standardization, Internationalizing, ISO, it is not correct to focus on the issue of national identity first, January 2009, Japan, Kaohsiung, KMT, Lee Yuan-Tseh, level of difficulty, Liu Chao-Shiuan, Ma Ying-Jeou, Maybe it's not really wrong -- just the English pronounciation, millions of NT dollars, Ministry of Education, Modern Chinese, MOE, national language, National People's Congress, National People's Congress in 1958, never an official system for Taiwan, nippon-shiki, Opposing The Proposal, Ovid Tseng, Ovid Tzeng, Pinyin, PRC, President Ma says, put the identity issue second, Putonghua, Romanization is still a mess, sacrificing the nation's sovereignty, Shih Hsiu-Chuan, TaiChung, taipei city, TAIPEI TIMES, Taiwan, Taiwan City must adopt Hanyu Pinyin, Taiwan has every right to decide its proper names, Taiwan Pinyin League, Taizhong, the Guidelines on Using Chinese Phonetic Spelling, The Interview, the KMT only used Zhuyin Fuhao, the Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II system, The most serious problem is how our names are to be Romanized, the opinions of civic groups, the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Tongyong, Tongyong pinyin system, two different Romanization systems, Wade-Giles, We don't need your Hanyu Pinyin, what was the response, Wong Chin-Chu, Yu Bor-Chuan, Zhuyin Fuhao
The Strange Culture
• 2008 Mon+00:002009-02-09T13:31:55+00:00. 15 • Leave a CommentPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 1600 BC, 1900 BC, 19th Century, Abbot Chuang Chiu, Anglo-Saxons, Australia, bathroom hail, biometric user identification, Burgenland Province, Cardboard Toilet, Eisenstadt, Fish N' Flush, Georgia Pacific's Innovation Institute, ISS toilet, Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, King Snofru, Korea, Martin Biebauer, Marton Restaurant, million dollar toilets, Nantou County, Neenah, Raising Eyebrows, Robo Urinal, RSS Toilet Paper Printer, Souther Taiwan, Space Toilet, Sumerians, Taiwan, Taoist temple, The Bold Move, toilet humour, Toilet Paper Researcher, Toilet Scale, TwoDaLoo, Tzenan Temple, Uniersity of Wolverhampton, Wolfgang Leinner, world's oldest joke, Yahoo! Travel
The Man Who Changed the KMT
• 2008 Thu+00:002009-01-22T15:35:09+00:00. 15 • 2 CommentsPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: 1992 Consensus, Actions That Speak Louder Than Words, ADA, Agriculture Development Act, APEC, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), Beijing University, Central Taiwan, Chairman, Chairman of Political Science Department, Chao Lan-K'un, Chen Shui-Bian, Chen Yun-Lin, Chiang Ching-Kuo, Chiang Kai-Shek, Chiang Qing-Kuo, China, Chinese Civil War, Chinese envoy, Chinese nationality, Chong-Qing, Communist Party of China, constitutional but inappropriate, Council of Grand Ju, Council of Grand Justice, CPC, Dean of the Graduate Institute of Political Science, Diaoyutai, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, direct flights, direct shipping, DPP Legislator, Enter the KMT, epoch-making, erase the Lee effect from Taiwan, Francisco Ou, friendlier KMT, Globalizing through China, Governor of Taiwan Province, Hong Kong, Hu Jin-Tao, Influence As a Chairman, Interior Minister, International Law and Diplomacy, Japan, KMT, KMT Chairman, KMT loyalists, Kuomin, Kuomintang, Land Law, Lee effect, Lee Teng-Hui, Legislative Yuan, Legislative Yuan committee meeting, Lien Chan, Lien Chen-Tung, Lien Fang-Yu, Lien Heng, Lien Hui-Hsin, Lin Fong-Cheng, Mainlander group in Taiwan, Mao Ze-Dong, National Taiwan University, NTU, Pandas, Peking University, People's Republic of China, Peru, PRC, Presidential Office, property scandal, Republic of China, Return to the Good Old Days, ROC, Second Sino-Japanese War, Secretary-General, Shaanxi, Southern Taiwan, State Council, Taipei City Council, Taipei mayor, Taiwan, Taiwan Affairs Office, Taiwan Constitution, Taiwan Strait, Taiwan Strait talks, Taiwan Work Office, Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Taiwanese Agriculture Policy, Taiwanese envoy, Taiwanese fruits, Tang Bi-A, THE Talks on November 21 2008 and Beyond, U.N., UC, United Nations, University of Chicago, Vice President, WHA, What Lays Beyond 'The Talks' the opportunity, WHO, World Health Organization, Xi-an
“Level” of Freedom, the Reflection
• 2008 Thu+00:002009-01-15T13:37:14+00:00. 15 • Leave a CommentPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: Asia, Assembly and Parade Law, autocratic regional hegemonic powers, BERI, Business Environment Risk Intelligence, Cathay United Bank, CBC, CCW, Central Bank of China, Chen Shui-Bian, Chen Yu-Lin, China, Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Citicorp., Citizen Congress Watch, civil liberties, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, credit cards, Democracy Watch list, determination for unilateralism, DPP, E. Sun Bank, Economic Freedom, Environmental Advocacy Group, exaggerated faith, Financial Supervisory Commission, free country, Freedom House, FSC, George W. Bush, Heritage Foundation, Ho Tsung-Hsun, Hong Kong, Human Rights Watch, Index of Economic Freedom, India, interest rates, International Human Rights Group, invasion of Iraq, Iraq, Japan, Jason Tsai, KMT, KMT boycott, Lee Tung-Hui, Level of Freedom, Ma Yin Jeou, market fundamentalism, police brutality, political freedom, prosecution and detention, regime change, Russia, Singapore, Taipei Fubon Bank, Taishin International Bank, Taiwan, Taiwan Business Alliance Conference, U.S., Union Bank of Taiwan, United States, Universal Declaration for Human Rights, vouchers, Wall Street Journal, Wild Strawberry Movement, world's freest economy
Violating the W.T.O.
• 2008 Mon+00:002009-01-12T12:49:28+00:00. 15 • Leave a CommentPosted in Journalism, News, Discovery
Tags: Bush Administration, Canada, CECA, CEPA, China, Chinese financial market, Clinton Administration, Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, Cross-Straight relations, economy, EU, Free Trade Agreement, FTA, GDP, Government Procurement Agreement, GPA, Hong Kong, Intellectual Property Rights, IRP, Japan, lead poisoning, lead toxin, Ma Yin Jeou, Macao, Made in Taiwan, Memorandum of Understanding, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOEA, MOFA, MOU, tainted milk, Taiwan, tariffs, U.S., World Trade Organization, WTO, Yen Ching-Chang
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