The Best Taiwan Blog Awards 2008 for The Taiwan based English blogs we announced earlier this month opens 01/10 for voting. We invite you to tour the blog entries, visit Taiwan’s English blogs and cast your votes.

To celebrate the Taiwan blogosphere excellence we’re suggesting a small Taiwan Best Blog title award among the Taiwan blogs registered at the Taiwanderful Taiwan Blog directory.

Taiwan Blog Award features

All Taiwan blogs registered at Taiwanderful can participate. If your blog doesn’t show up at Taiwanderful, then sign up for a username and simply add it to the directory. Registered blog owners may edit their blog's details at any time.

Just wanted to point out the fact that the entire old 2004 version of Lonely Planet Taiwan is available online for you to read, scanned and hosted legally by Google Books. If you can manage reading books online and don’t necessarily need the most up-to-date information, this might save you the occasional 1000-2000NT$.

Beginning today, there'll be a slight change in the Taiwanderful revenue sharing policy .

From now on 100% of Google Adsense earnings from the ads displayed on content will go to the people who contributed the content, if they set revenue sharing on their account . After experimenting with his feature for a few months, we believe this is the right thing to do to reward the members for their hard work contributing to this site.

Shieh Jhy-wey

Minister, Government Information Office

Taiwan

We live in a good world, with good people in it. The human race has shown time and again that a spirit of compassion and love can overcome adversity, fear, injustice, and aggression. Natural disasters, famines, disease, conflict, terrorism, and tyranny do their worst, but this indomitable spirit marches on, manifesting itself every day around the globe.

Taiwan's been trying to encourage foreign students to come and study in Taiwan and the number of scholarships offered are increasing. I'm studying in Taiwan with the Nationcal Science Council scholarship and have been contacted a few times with questions regarding the scholarships available for foreigners in Taiwan. Following is a compilation of the information I know of.

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I've collected a few of the Taiwan tourism promotion videos available on the Internet. Although they don't actually tell much about Taiwan, they do have a talent for capturing Taiwan's beauty:

A few visitors emailed me asking whether I can put up a classified ads board on Taiwanderful. I've forwarded them to the numerous sites that supply this service in Taiwan, but getting back some feedback about some of those services it was suggested to me that I should try building one more. Although I am not sure Taiwanderful can support such a feature with current userbase, I decided to give it a try nonetheless and implement a simple board for jobs and buy/sell. I'm assuming it might grow with time.Some of the main features implemented :

Taiwan is re-applying to join the World Health Organization.

If you already have a blog about Taiwan, like David and I, and are wondering what Taiwanderful could offer you ontop of your blog, here are a few things to consider :