Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Some great advice on earning more money as an ESL teacher. Though set in Taiwan, the advice is easily adapted to ESL teaching in any country.

The Xinhua website says this article by the Los Angeles Times sensationalises the anti-satellite test that China carried out in January 2007. I am not sure why - the article is quite moderate in tone and even reminds people that Taiwan is a rogue province.

Can you imagine what Taiwan looked like 50 years ago? Bob Ronald just celebrated his 50 years living in Taiwan, he shares here his first impressions when arrived to the island. You might be surprised as it might not be so far from one's more actual experience...

Great photo by Reuters' Daniel Aguilar of Chinese dancers performing the thousand hands of Guanyin at the Olympic Village.

Taiwan has revised its high-school history textbooks to show that Taiwan is an independent country and not part of China, media reports said Monday.

The China Times said that on the education ministry's order, the title of the national history textbook for high-school - to be used after the winter vacation - has been changed from 'National History' to 'China History'.

In this textbook, terms like 'our country,' 'this country' and 'the mainland' have been changed to 'China' to indicate that Taiwan is not part of China, the daily said.

The film stars Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Zhou Xun and Daniel Wu.

The movie is a Shakespeare adapation suitable for the internation market says Hong Kong Chairman of Crucindo Hung....

A ESWN translation of a well-written article by Lung Ying-tai regarding the near ousting of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian. The story uses this event to give a picture of modern day democracy in Taiwan.

Lin Chiling is a superstar in Taiwan and China, or just China if you think Taiwan belongs to the mainland.

I have heard from my colleagues and friends over and over again how they want to start a new business, do this and that, and talk about their product and target audience. No one, however, plans ahead to what to do if the business is successful aside from saying, “we want to get bought out by [insert big company name here]”