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• Taiwan: Populism or Nationalism?

  
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  Lawmakers are now running after what it’s called “foreign fat cats”: foreign people with a high salary (for Taiwanese standards). The target is now the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC). A legislator asked (see HERE) “ asked to the company’s spokesperson what the company would do with two foreign ...
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• Who Can Believe That Taiwan’s Eldorado Is China?

  
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  Since one year, it’s clear for the observers that Taiwan (the administration in charge)  is putting all its eggs in the Chinese basket. At the beginning, it was quite discreet but now, it’s totally obvious. Even state-owned companies are joining the move. The state-owned Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corp (TTL) ...
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• Where A Lawyer Should Stay?

  
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  A lawyer awoke in a hospital bed after a complicated operation, and found that the curtains were drawn around him. "Why are the curtains closed?" he asked. "Is it night?" A nurse replied, "No, it is just that there is a fire across the street, and we didn’t want you waking up and thinking that the operation was ...
  6 days ago

• A Dead Chinese Spy Will Make Me RICH!

  
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  I was not in so good mood recently and put my blogging aside, except for my financial blog. But today, I have reasons to feel better. Have a look on this email I received this morning: Good Morning, I am Mrs. Vivian Ong, a staff of a security and safe deposit company in Singapore. I am in charge of Files ...
  1 week ago

• Taiwan: What’s Going On?

  
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  First day of the week and Media already provides some news people may scratching their head about: 1 – I suppose you know that Taiwan is allowing (without letting the legislators or the public know in advance) the import of a lot of new parts of US beef, as expressed in the today editorial cartoon of ...
  1 week ago

• What A Baby Born Now Is Thinking About

  
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  Bad times now. Worst than before? Blue sky tomorrow? Baby or no baby now? Please my Queen, don’t read this post! Anyone informing my Queen about it will be dead meat Here is the diary from a new born baby. A baby born in the worst recession in a generation. Thanks to Market Watch , here is the diary of ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Grad’s Students See Their Prof

  
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    Click on it to get a larger image   Mots clés Technorati : Teaching , Professor , Students , Research , Humor , fvarga Posted in Humor, Teaching
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• "Peaceful Wolf T’ai Chi Ch’uan"… And Economics

  
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  Let all things be healthy. Let all things be peaceful. Count your blessings at least once a day. Forgive those who have hurt you; forgive those who have offended you. But most of all forgive yourself for what you have done, and for what you have failed to do. What is done, there is no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taiwan: Finally The Cruel Made Its Decision And Left

  
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  Few hours after I posted about LUPIT (yesterday evening Taiwan Times), I checked (this morning) the current path. Obviously if LUPIT (downgraded to tropical storm) didn’t know what to do yesterday, it seems now that its mind is clear I am using a very good source: Tropical Storm Risk ( TSR ) which is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taiwan: Again, Not Responsible?

  
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  Since one year, the Maokong Gondola (located in Taipei – Muzha area) is suspended for security concerns linked (at least) to the Tower 16 (mudslides eroded the ground beneath a support pillar). It was decided, designed and constructed when Ma (the actual president of Taiwan) was the mayor of Taipei. The Control ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taiwan and Press Freedom

  
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  Taiwan yesterday saw its press freedom ranking slip 23 spots in the latest report issued by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), dropping to 59th this year from 36th last year ( HERE   and in RSF website ). According RSF, it’s a big drop. In response to RSF’s latest report, Executive Yuan Spokesman Su Jun-pin said ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Diet The Key Point?

  
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  It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies . 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taiwan: He Lost The Heart Of…?

  
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  PHOTO: LO PEI-DER, TAIPEI TIMES At the center, KMT honorary chairman Lien Chan (former vice president of Taiwan and still active in Taiwanese politics) was promoting KMT candidates for the year-end elections. As you can see, he drops a heart. Question: it was his heart or the Taiwanese heart? Beside, I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taiwan: It’s Not My Fault And Everything Will Be Fine. Magic!

  
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  Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan (especially the center and south as never a typhoon did in recent history) with the consequences you all know. You all also know the performance of the government and Taiwan’s president Ma. So of course, they had to find who were responsible of this disaster and the poor answer of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The First Sex Toy for Dog: Made in France!!!

  
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  Really, imagination has no limit… A sex toy for your pet … The designer, Clément Eloy (26 years old) wanted to create (among other benefits), something practical… The manufacturer (Stéphane Delimoges), located in the south west, said he already shipped this “practical” stuff all around the world, ...
  6 weeks ago

• Taiwan: BBQ Time! Happy Moon Festival!

  
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  Today is Moon Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival). The day is based on the lunar calendar so it’s not always celebrated on October 3rd. It’s on the 15th moon day of the 8th Chinese Lunar Month (Chicken month? I am not sure. I forgot ). Usually, people are partying with family and friends, offering each other moon ...
  6 weeks ago

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