Daily Archives: May 23, 2004

Connections . . . Taipei, Washington, Iraq

US Congressmen want Washington to ask Taiwan to Send Troops to Iraq . . . Two pro-Taiwan US House members introduced a resolution on Thursday calling for US President George W. Bush to ask Taiwan to deploy marines to Iraq. Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher, co-chairman of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus, and Republican Representative Jim Ryun,…

Spirit Guides . . . “odd” jobs?

Did anyone else find the Taipei Times article by Max Woodworth on Spirit Guides in Taiwan to be just a tad too tongue-in-cheek and a bit on the disrespectful side of commenting on a traditional Taoist funeral practice and ceremony? To top it off, the article lead-in called this the first in a series on…