Today is the Seventh of the Lunar Seventh Month,七夕, and it is a “Valentine’s Day” of sort here in Taiwan and many other Asian countries. The folklore has it that a young “Cow Boy” 牛郎 and a “Maiden Weaver” 織女 were in deep affection with each other but somehow invited ire of the master, who, [...]
Today, July 25th, according to Lunar calendar here, is the first day of the seventh month and it is the begining of the second half of the year. The majority of the people in Taiwan follow folk religion, and they believe that the Gate of Hell and the Underworlds were opened at zero hour of [...]
It has been an irritable thing for many Taiwanese to receive a mail with an offensive and erronous notation “Province of China” after Taiwan. Instead of addressing Taiwan sinply and directly, it appeares as “Taiwan, Provice of China”. Hopefully this kind of practice will change and cease in the future. On May 9th [...]
On his way back from the state visit to Latin America, President Chen Shui-bien turned down the US offer of a transit stop at Anchorage, Alaska and made his return trip by way of Tri-Polli, Libya and Batam, Indonesia before coming back to Taiwan on late hours of Friday, May 12th. He [...]
Taiwan’s President, Chen Shui-Bien, is en route to Paraguai and Costa Rica for an eight-day state visit to Latin America. For the trip, Taiwan negotiated with the US, requested an overnight stay in New York and a stop in San Francisco on return journey, but the US rejected the request and suggested to have [...]
The FORMOSAT – 3 was lefted into orbit on Saturday morning, April 15 on an US rocket. It will monitor changes of climate aiming for more accurate weather forcasts. The FORMOSAT – 3, a satellite mainly developed by Taiwanese scientists, is said to be a joint project of Taiwan and the US, was [...]
A month ago, there was a survey for a most favored imaging of Taiwan with three most refered figures: 1, The newest 101 Story Building in Taipei; 2, Traditional Taiwanese Puppets; or 3, U-Shan(the Jade Mountain, or Mt. Morrison, the highest mountain of Taiwan). To many’s surprise, it was the puppets that took the [...]
The Zootechnology Department of the National Taiwan University announced the other day that it has raised successfully a few pigs with green eyes, snoot and hooves and they also emit light from those parts like fireflies in the dark. It is claimed also that they will be valuable in medical resarches. There [...]
On its online reservation web, the Amtrak listed Taiwan as a “Province of China” but recently apologized for the error. A formal letter of protest was sent to tthe President of the National Railrord Passenger Corp, David Gunn by the President of Formosan Association for Public Affairs(FAPA) in the US, which [...]
After three months’ try and error, I finally get connected wireless. The freedom of movement within the range is really great as the signal quality is excellent. What I realized is that there is some basic knowledge that one needs to have so that one can follow things available [...]