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The daughter of the former president of Taiwan, Chen Hsing-yu was prohibited (again) from leaving the country after being questioned by prosecutors on June 22 in connection with alleged perjury, which has hampered her plan to study in the United States.
Directly or indirectly it doesn’t matter, she asked to not be barred of leaving the [...]
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He was the King of Pop.
He is now a Legend.
R.I.P. Michael.
Mots clés Technorati : Culture,Mickael Jackson,fvarga
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The Minister of Justice visited yesterday the Penghu Prison on the Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait (HERE):
IF THE SHACKLES FIT – Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng tries on foot shackles at Tingwan Prison on Penghu yesterday. – PHOTO: CNA
I needed to read twice the CNA article to be sure I well understood:
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The normally heavily [...]
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A while ago I wrote (HERE), among other stuff, about the fact that the president of Taiwan (?) promoted the learning of simplified Chinese:
But yesterday, the President (chief of the region? Mr.?) promoted (see HERE) the learning of simplified Chinese but as you can read:
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Our suggestion is that Chinese be able to understand traditional Chinese [...]
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Short sighted: Whatever the money we got now, is good even though an hangover is waiting for the next morning:
AP Washington Tom Raum’s article
Ma (president of Taiwan –?-) said (confirming it again) his administration intended to negotiate an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with Beijing (HERE).
He confirmed it again even after few lines before he [...]
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Editorial Cartoon Taipei Times
Just a reminder of a presidential campaign made by a then-candidate .
…Just few months after his election, he decided to become the chairman of his party too…
It seems that old time is back…
Mots clés Technorati : Taiwan,Politics,fvarga
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Since yesterday, it is officially the summer and the time we may travel outside of Taiwan.
So maybe you could be interested by the exchange rates between the TWD and the major currencies.
Here you are (today bid/ask for an amount lower than USD10,000):
US dollar 32.660 33.060
Euro 45.18 46.18
Hong Kong dollar 4.189 4.289
Japanese yen 0.3388 0.3448
Australian dollar [...]
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A lot of people are writing about changes in Taiwanese’s policies since one year, since the new Chief, Mister, president is in charge.
Before, “they” did their stuff undercover, without letting the public know about everything.
But now, everything is under the beautiful coming summer sun.
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy’s (TFD) was founded in 2003 under the [...]
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NEWS # 1
I wrote (HERE) about the Want Want’s Group, a Chinese company which just bought a media group in Taiwan.
It seems that they do not like freedom of speech.
They are threatening people who wrote about them. See HERE:
[…]
The company said in a letter issued to a number of individuals who had written articles about [...]
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I posted few days ago (among other subjects) about the story concerning the wig (toupee). HERE.
I just read in the good blog The Foreigner in Taiwan, an hilarious post on the same subject.
The picture is… too much
Enjoy it HERE.
Mots clés Technorati : Taiwan,Humor,Politics,Wig,fvarga
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