About Portnoy
Hi, I am Portnoy Zheng, a Taiwanese. Right now I work as project manager in Mongolia and Tibetan Foundation in Taiwan. I am also the co-director of Global Voices Project Lingua and a keen contributor of Global Voices in Chinese. Contact me if you have any question about Project Lingua or if you want to start a new Lingua site.(highly welcome!)
Check my personal blog in Traditional Chinese and my rarely-updated English blog here. Or maybe you want to follow my twitter here, plurk(in English) here.
Latest posts by Portnoy
Stories
October 19th, 2009
Central Asia & Caucasus
Ariungerel on Nomad Green critisizes the effects of many projects aiming to protect or restore rangelands in Mongolia. “Once a project ends and the result is reported to the world, both of their money and minds would disappear”, and in many cases, those restored rangelands return to waste desert because local people still lack the mindset of sustainable rangeland protection.
October 13th, 2009
Central Asia & Caucasus
How could Mongolian nomadic herders find a new living in capital city Ulaanbaatar? Ariungerel, citizen journalist of Nomad Green, interviewed Ms. Baytskhandai and told us her story of how she manages to change lives of poor and disabled people and be environmental-friendly by teaching them agricultural skills.
September 27th, 2009
East Asia
Started by a group of bloggers in 2005, and then organized by ADCT since 2006, BoF(Birds of a Feather), aka Taiwan Youth Blog Festival, has become the major Web 2.0 event in Taiwan. This year, because of Typhoon Morakot that wreaked havoc in August 2009 in southeren Taiwan, BoF 2009 on 9/27 focuses on how online community, as a part of local society, should have leverage in the offline world under the theme “Clean UP!”. Besides damage mitigation, this year BoF also divide sessions for microblogging, blogger economy and family bloggers, observing how different trends and innovations change the landscape in the blogosphere. (Live broadcasting in both text and video here.)
September 13th, 2009
Taiwan: Response to Ex-President's Life Sentence
August 20th, 2009
East Asia
Beeside made (zh)a video of his “free hug for Taiwan” campaign after he saw so many tragedies caused by the flood everyday (translation): “At the beginning, it was like other netizens said, people there were merely watching, no one dared to give me a hug. But this situation did not last long after a mother came near with her child and told him that: ‘Come, let's give Taiwan a hug, because we love Taiwan, right?' When I heard it, my eyes behind the mask were red in tears.”
August 10th, 2009
Taiwan: Southern Taiwan devastated by typhoon Morakot
On Aug. 7, 2009, typhoon Morakot landed on Taiwan. The Central Weather Bureau urged residents in Northern Taiwan to be prepared for the heavy rain and strong wind brought by Morakot. However, it turned out that southern Taiwan has suffered from more devastating landslides and floods when compared with northern ...
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