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About Pipper Lee

11 posts · joined 2007-03-10

Ming-Hsien Lee was born, raised, and educated in Taiwan.

In 2004, he began blogging in order to note down his feeling in his life.

His interests soon reached out to media observsations, as well as the events in Taiwan blogosphere.

In 2006 he joined GV Chinese Project, working on the translation of the articles on GVO.

He is currently acting as the coordinator in GV Chinese Project.

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August 2nd, 2008

East Asia

Annual Taiwan blogger BoF [zh] (named from “Birds of a feather”) is going to be held on Aug. 3rd in Taipei. Hundreds to thousands of Taiwan bloggers will enjoy the whole-day sessions from online to off-line, and from 00:00 to 24:00. Portnoy will introduce Rising Voice Project in one of those sessions. More detail agendas can be found in Chiao's article.

July 26th, 2008

Taiwan: Bloggers Discuss Marketing Post

Taiwan blogosphere recently resumed the hot discussion about bloggers' advertising / marketing post -- but the topic goes hotter this time.

March 31st, 2008

Taiwan: Voices after Presidential Election

March 22 is Taiwan's presidential election held once every four years. The victory is belonging to KMT's Ma Ying-jeou, who got 60 percent of votes and 2 million votes than the other candidate, Frank Hsieh from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). KMT lost the political power since DPP became the ruling party eight years ago. Now they are back and complete the second-round trasition of political power. After the election, in addition to the election result reported by Taiwan and international press, bloggers in Taiwan have many comments on democracy development, hot and criticism for two parties, and relationship between Taiwan and China.

June 21st, 2007

Taiwan: 《Voyage 15840》– the photo book powered by migrant worker

Voyage, means a period of trip to anywhere. 15840, it is the minimum wage for workers in Taiwan. However, for migrant workers in Taiwan, it means the “maximum”. By naming Voyage 15840, TIWA (Taiwan International Workers' Association) gathered all the photo works from 19 migrant workers in Taiwan. They published ...

April 18th, 2007

Taiwan: Fabricated News

On March 28th, TVBS, the TV station which has been long mocked as "TV Bull Shit", broadcast some footage that caught the public's eyeballs. The footage, which showed gangster Chou Cheng-pao threatening his former gangster boss with guns, was later broadcast by other cable TV news channels. However, not until ...

April 16th, 2007

East Asia

Ms. Chui-Yung Chang (張翠容), an independent reporter from Hong Kong, was threaten by Taiwan local police when she spoke for the public in a demonstration. The administration claimed that foreigners can only perform the task listed on the application, or they will be deported. More details can be reached via the article in coolloud.org.tw [zh].