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标题: Listener: Want Good Care? Try Taiwan. [打印本页]

作者: choi 时间: 10-8-2009 10:50
标题: Listener: Want Good Care? Try Taiwan.
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National Public Radio (NPR), Oct. 5, 2009.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/10/listener_want_good_care_try_ta.html

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(1) 华府第一所公立华语小学. VOA Chinese, Oct. 7, 2009
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/education/YuYingSchool-20091007-63692532.html
("在这里根本没有中文课，而是直接以中文教授所有科目。 * * * 育英学校的执行主任薛芙纳本人曾在台湾学习中文")

Note:
(a) 华盛顿育英学校 Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School
http://www.washingtonyuying.org/
(b) 特许学校 charter school
(c) 执行主任薛芙纳 "Mary Shaffner - Founding Executive Director," according to "leadership" in the web site.
(d) 王珏 Jue Wang

(2) 美国防授权法案最终条文未纳入台空军报告. VOA Chinese, Oct. 8, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/TAIWANAIRFORCE-20091007-63699142.html

(3) 六十年秘辛——国府黄金渡台的故事. BBC Chinese, Sept. 26, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/institutional/2009/09/090926_taiwan_gold_vic.shtml

Quote:

"吴兴镛博士向BBC中文网说，他自己都是在翻阅了吴嵩庆遗留下来的日记之后，才发现他的父亲为了信守对蒋介石的承诺，到去世前从未提及这段秘史。现在在美国行医的吴兴镛博士的父亲吴嵩庆当年奉蒋介石指示将上海黄金转运往台湾作为军费。

"他估计，当年国府渡台黄金的总数大约折合700万两，可是这个数目大约只占全中国金银收藏量的百分之二左右。1950年，广东省一地，当局便以人民币从民间换出了470万两的黄金。

My comment: The report cites the book:

吳興鏞, 黄金檔案: 國府黃金運台一九四九年. 時英 (出版社, in Taiwan: traditional Chinese characters), 2007.
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010383545
(內容簡介)

(4) 两岸分隔一甲子菜肴传乡情. BBC Chinese, Sept. 25, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/institutional/2009/09/090924_taiwan_cooking_vic.shtml

My comment: "1989年解严了." Actually the late President Chinag Ching-kuo lifted martial law in 1987.

(5) 图辑：两岸故宫首次合办特展. BBC Chinese, Oct. 6, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/10/091006_picgallery_palace_vic.shtml

(6) Nicole Tsong, Facing East Taiwanese dishes up fantastic fare. Facing East Taiwanese is a Bellevue restaurant that knocks out some fantastic fare, hitting the right notes for freshness, authentic flavor and a Taiwanese obsession — chewy textures. Seatle Times, Oct. 2, 2009.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2009977336_deal02.html#

Note: sticky rice sausage 糯米腸

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