This is only a promotional item. It costs little, but gets lots of publicity for Taiwan. That can’t be bad. As for tax rates in Taiwan, they are relatively low for the developed world. And there are a lot more services for locals than for tourists (true in any country) paid or partly paid for…
Christine spent the day making these! She did have fun!
It seems that after all the excitement of Chinese New Year’s red underwear, Valentine’s Day is just two weeks or so away. Now, if you live in a country where sexy lingerie is not appropriate on Valentine’s Day, you’ll be looking at Chocolates, Flowers or Cards. But … and it’s a big but, they might…
Came across this new HTML Editor as a successor to Kompozer: BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it’s a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards. It’s free to download (current stable…
I remember a few years ago how some kids were playing real soccer in Taiwan. You have no idea how rare it is to see, and there are few soccer pitches here, too. But the sport is enjoying something of an epiphany here, and one day, Taiwan may sport its own soccer team for the…
One of the nice things about living in Asia, is that many countries have the custom of using Personalized Stamps for signing documents and chops. While they are very stylized and perhaps different from what we might characterize as a personalized stamp, you can have your name inscribed in Chinese, on the material of your…
I really like this store: lots of good books available in Chinese, English, French and Japanese. I usually raid them for quality children’s books.
Hah! JCPenney’s Gold… is it worth the real thing? Looks less yellow than Taiwan or Chinese gold! But gold here is so soft! That’s 24K for you!