Archive for the ‘Taiwan’ Category
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Alton Thompson has a post on Typhoon Morakot disaster relief information. I highly recommend anyone looking for information on how to help to check out this post.
Typhoon Morakot has really hammered Taiwan and at least one entire village appears to have been completely submerged in mud. Apparently the response has ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Michael Turton posts on the letter Obama writes to Ma congratulating him on the inauguration. There is wording in this letter that has some interesting insight into this candidate's perspective on Taiwan's political situation.
Many I've discussed this with see the wording as being positive for Taiwan's position, and it shows ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Bao wan are these killer little dumplings that I love to have whenver we go to Taiwan. I haven't had these since the celiac diagnosis, but Yingwen and one of our friends came up with this recipe and they are delicious. Here is the recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup rice flour
7 cups ...
Posted in Gastronomy, Gluten Intolerance, Taiwan | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Where the word "sharp" means being a purely hypocritical tool:
Rice Has Sharp Words for Taiwan, as Gates Does for China
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Taiwan, pointedly calling its planned referendum on United Nations membership “provocative.”
So a referendum on calling Taiwan what it is and ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I love reading Michael Turton's blog, and I admire both the volume and the quality of his posts on Taiwan and the jostling of this wonderful little place between the political whims of two giants, China and the USA.
In response to the Kitty Hawk debacle, he posts something about a ...
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