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Portnoy

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About Portnoy

51 posts · joined 2006-09-22

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.

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June 29th, 2009

East Asia

Andrew from Feast Meets West interviewed Rose Huang, the most-followed twitterer in Taiwan, in his radio show on RTI.

June 24th, 2009

Taiwan: Burning of the Plague God BoatPhotos post

Burning of Plague God Boat is a local religious ritual in many parts of Taiwan. Instead of showing you a grand event, photo blogger, YangPhoto, takes us to one of the smallest ritual in Da Jiou, a small fishing village in Pingdong.

May 21st, 2009

Taiwan: LiveCast and music for saving rural livelihoodPhotos postVideo post

Citizen journalists, activists and artists use different forms of media - LiveCast, written reports and musics- to save rural livelihood and Taiwan's agriculture from destructive government rural policies.

April 25th, 2009

East Asia

TEIC(Taiwan Environmental Information Center) criticize French director Luc Besson's decision to invite Hau Lung-pin, the Mayor of Taipei City, to dub his latest documentary film about environment while Hau is actually a tree killer and nature destroyer(zh).

April 16th, 2009

Taiwan: If You Lost Your Job…

What would you feel if you are fired, your small business goes bankrupt, or you simply cannot find any way to make a living? In this most disastrous moment of economic downturn, many Taiwanese are losing their jobs and helplessly waiting for for all the dreadful news to stop. Some begin to blame themselves for being unemployed.

April 3rd, 2009

Japan , Taiwan (ROC)

Today is the first day of a new baseball season in Japan Professional Baseball League(Nippon Pro Yakyu), 天聲禧語(Heavenly voices and joyful words) lists all Taiwanese baseball players playing in Japan and cheers them on.