The US based magazine, Foreign Policy, in its recent issue has a “2006 Globalization Index” published. Accorging to the index, Taiwan ranked 35th in the survey of 62 countried based on 2004 data. Of the 4 major indicators used to determine the ranking, Taiwan ranked 12th, in terms of economic integration; 18th, in terms of […]
While browsing news from Taiwan, I have come across a news reporting that a group of Taiwan musicians will perform in a Spain city of Seville on October 26, Thursday next week, at the World Music Expo. The group is organized by Taipei Arts International Association and sposored by Chunghua Telecom and the presentation will […]
This year. 2006, is the 100th anniversary of baseball playing in Taiwan. After Japan annexted the Kingdom of Ryukyu (Okinawa) in 1879 AD, in that same breath, in 1895, Japan got the Manchu Dynasty China (Ch’ing Kuo), after a Sino-Japanese War, to cede Taiwan over to the imperial Japan in perprtuity. A Republic of Taiwan […]
Taiwanese soldiers will be eating a lots of bananas. The Agricalture Council of the Cabinet(Executive Yuen) announced the other day that as a measure of propping up price of bananas, measures of increased purchase of the fruit will be in effect and it will be distributed to the militaly units and schools. The famers are […]
Last Sunday, my daughter and her boy friend cooked an Italian dinner for the family with a very formal service menue on the table. The menue had it, Primo: Buccatini alla Carbonara (long hollow pasta tossed with crisp pancetta, fresh grated parmigiano cheese, Italian parsley and egg yolks. A Roman speciality favored by Sophia Loren). […]
Yesterday was October 10th in Taiwan. There, for over 50 years, the day has been called “Double Ten’s Day” which supposed to be like the Forth of July in the USA, a national birthday for the Republic of China and greatly celebrated by the KMT(China Nationalist Party) Government, and even continued untill yesterday. In hindsight, […]
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