Taoyuan Nights

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This can be found near Chihkan Fort, Tainan…

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While walking around a buxiban area near Taipei Main Station, I came across what I think was a school, which had a giant map on the wall of the English-speaking countries of the world. As you can see, it’s quite interesting and unusual.

Map of the UK.
Today’s Lesson: The capital cities of the United Kingdom!
London, the […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
It seems this is a genuine ‘news’ report from the US shown on Fox. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.

“Happy Corner is then performed along with a song parodying Happy Birthday to You, with the lyrics changed to “Happy Corner to You”.
Happy Corner. It’s not what you might think. More here at the Taipei Times.

Other blogs:
Michael Turton on insider trading in Taiwan.
DoubtingToShou on the joys of the recent stockmarket drops + a story about […]

I recently came across this interesting collection of photos of unusual protests in South Korea.
http://www.who-sucks.com/people/the-exciting-world-of-south-korean-protests
I wonder, has anyone ever compiled a compendium of unusual Taiwanese protests?

I believe this vehicle to be the preliminary field test of a new, twin-barrel, single-turret ’stealth tank’ designed to merge almost invisibly with civilian traffic in Taiwan.
The alternative explanation is simply too stupid to be true.

And yet people wonder why I travel by bus rather than scooter.