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I-fan Lin

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About I-fan Lin

38 posts · joined 2007-02-28

Born, raised, and educated in Taiwan. I write about current Taiwan issues and events as well as the Taiwanese blogosphere.

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January 19th, 2009

East Asia

The Lunar New Year is right at the corner. The Lunar New Year is an important holiday for family members and friends to get together in Taiwan. To prepare the food and the mood, people like to go shopping before the Lunar New Year. chensumi showed us what she saw when she went to several traditional markets in Taipei.

January 8th, 2009

Taiwan: Organic farming in TaiwanPhotos postVideo post

In Taiwan, more and more farmers adopt organic farming methods, from rice to vegetables, from fruits to roses, and from tea to coffee. These farmers use blogs to support each other and sell their products.

December 11th, 2008

Taiwan: The government could not wait to harvest wild strawberriesPhotos post

The forced eviction of Wild Strawberries Movement at the Freedom Square this morning (Dec 11), just a few hours after the International Human Rights Day, shows the Taiwan government's hypocrisy in the implementation of human rights .

November 28th, 2008

Taiwanese version of ThanksgivingPhotos post

Seeing Americans have Thanksgiving holidays, Arkun tries to search for similar festival in Taiwan and finds a similar counterpart, the peace ritual ceremony...

November 11th, 2008

Taiwan: At the Protest FrontlinePhotos postVideo post

It seems that many people, especially if you are outside Taiwan, found the recent protest against Chen Yinlin in Taipei confusing. Bob pointed out that in China, some incidents in the protest were interpreted as democratic violence. Such impression is probably a result of the mainstream media report on the ...

November 9th, 2008

Taiwan: Students Demand to Revise the Parade and Assembly Law!Photos post

About 500 students gathered peacefully in front of the Executive Yuan on 11/6 to protest against the current Parade and Assembly Law (集會遊行法). The government abusive use of the law has violated people's rights in protest in the past few days during the visit of Association for Relations Across the ...