Monthly Archives: November 2015

The spirit of Taiwan independence An interesting interview was conducted in Taiwanese.  The interviewee was a 90-year-old man named Ku Kuan-min, former presidential adviser and father of the “Taiwan independence spirit”.  He has been calling for a “normalization of the country”. [Master Chen … Continue reading →

Hualien to be international cruise ship destination The Asuka II of Japan brought 790 Japanese cruise ship passengers to Hualien,Taiwan, on November 27, 2015.  In 2016, 25 large international cruise ships will visit the port of Hualien, including Quantum of … Continue reading →

A positively rousing speech On November 27, 2015, Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and her running mate academician Chen Chien-ren went to the Central Elections Commission to register as candidates for president and vice president in the … Continue reading →

TRA offers new train services The Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) will begin mixed train runs on its Taipei to Kaohsiung line.  Starting on December 1, 2015, it will run a mix of “direct”, “jumping frog” and “stop at all stations” … Continue reading →

Latin in Taiwan There are over 53,000 Taiwanese high school students who are learning a second foreign language, English being their first foreign language. Japanese, Korean, French, German have been popular as an elective second foreign language of many high school … Continue reading →

Eva Air signed its purchase order on November 24, 2015, for 20 787-10 Dreamliners, 4 787-9 Dreamliners and 2 777-300ERs, with delivery beginning in 2017 and to be completed by 2020.. Eva Air currently has a fleet of 22 777-300ERs.  With … Continue reading →

Strong words from Tsai Ing-wen Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party’s presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen said in Pingtung on November 21, 2015, that if she becomes president on election day, January 16, 2016, and if the Democratic Progressive Party’s legislative candidates win … Continue reading →

Democratic chaos or chaotic democracy? While the Kuomintang (KMT) is mired in its unpopular list of proposed legislative candidates and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is mired in the alleged plagiarism controversy of its vice presidential candidate academician Chen Chien-ren, the … Continue reading →

Has Xi Jinping abandoned confrontation with Taiwan? At the APEC meeting in the Philippines, Chinese Communist regime’s president Xi Jinping reportedly took the initiative to approach the head of the Taiwanese delegation Vincent Siew and both met briefly with US … Continue reading →

Interesting conclusions from an educational follow-up study In 2000, the Taiwan National Chengchi University, Taiwan University, the Academia Sinica and the Taiwan science and technology ministry established a data bank for a Taiwan educational progress statistics (TEPS) study.  The data … Continue reading →