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
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 ...
July 15th, 2009
East Asia
Neihu Line, the latest line that just joined Taipei MRT system and open to the public since July 1st is having malfuctioning troubles. While the current Mayor Hau is the one mainly criticized by the media and public, blogger elysii 幕容理深 provided his analysis (zh) on what exactly the former Mayor-now President-Ma Ying-jeou had ever done for MRT: almost nothing, except attending ceremonies.
July 11th, 2009
East Asia
TIWA starts a petition for reduced sentence of an injured Chinese worker Liu Hanghuang who stabbed to of his Taiwanese employers after he failed to commit suicide.
July 5th, 2009
Taiwan: Dell, Caught in the Web
On the late night of June 25, Dell, the brand that sells customized PCs, suddenly became the hottest word on Taiwan's Twitterverse, Plurksphere, and BBS, because all products listed on Dell's homepage are on unbelievable discount.
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 Boat
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.
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