Question: How can I find a good supplier from a particular industry in Taiwan?

Answer: A good way to do so is via the Australia-Taiwan Information Network, where you can post your demands and needs in both English and Chinese languages, for FREE. Because the network has two corresponding sites, one in English in Australia and the other in Chinese in Taiwan, it will enable Taiwanese businesses, groups and individuals all over the world to see your requests and make appropriate response.

Alternatively, please check out our Recommended Links page, where you can find links to useful sites that introduce Taiwan's trade and industrial developments. Some of these sites offer lists of Taiwanese exporters and manufacturers.

Answer: Taiwan.com.au Portal offers valuable Internet space for Australian businesses, groups and individuals who would like to promote their products and/or services to their counterparts in Taiwan. We provide Web Site Hosting service in both English and Chinese languages.

Alternatively, Australia's government agencies, corporates and small and medium business operators may secure a spot in Taiwan.com.au Portal's various prominent pages, where they can promote their visions, achievements, products and services to worldwide Internet users, in both English and Chinese. Please see our Sponsorship page.

Answer: The Taiwan.com.au Newsletter is a quarterly English-language publication that covers prominent political, economic, societal and cultural events in Australia and Taiwan. Topics of discussion are chosen to reflect the sometimes different but often similar values, beliefs and trends observed in Australian and Taiwanese societies. A book review dealing with a relevant subject helps readers gain an alternative understanding of these topics. For example, in the January-March 2006 issue of the newsletter, the "Issue in Australia" section investigates Australia's views on death penalty, as demonstrated in the case of an Vietnamese Australian who was hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking. The "Issue in Taiwan" section explores Taiwan's current plan to gradually abolish capital punishment, while the "Book Review" section introduces an Australian novel that depicts experiences of Vietnamese communities and individuals in Australia.

In this sense, the Taiwan.com.au Portal Newsletter is a valuable channel through which readers get to better understand Australian and Taiwanese societies. All readers who are interested in the communications between Australia and Taiwan will be benefited from our objective coverage and analysis of various aspects of these two societies.

Answer: This is because we have a collection of news articles and reviews about every county and city in Taiwan, in the Environment and Travel page under the "Latest News" section. There are introductions to the historical backgrounds and current features of most scenic spots in Taiwan, and how to access them. Plenty of colored photographs are displayed.

Meanwhile, if you require information about any specific tourist destination, resource, facility or service in Taiwan that we currently do not cover, please let us know.

Answer: Yes, they are expensive, because many individuals who offer to sell their copies of books published in Australia via Amazon.com often just put the prices up. It is regrettable that Amazon.com does not check whether these prices are reasonable or ridiculous.

Nonetheless, we have plans to establish direct partnerships with Australian publishers, so that books written by Australian writers and/or published in Australia can be promoted and even sold in Taiwan.com.au at reasonable prices. More details will be posted in our site in the future.

Answer: The best way to find news about specific aspects of Taiwan's society and people is to do a Google search within the Taiwan.com.au Portal web site. We have had Internet users searching for interesting topics such as Taiwanese recipes, professional life in Taiwan, Taiwanese TV shows, "Martian language" in Taiwan, Muslims in Taiwan, and whether or not Taiwanese children are present at political gatherings. While these users have found satisfying answers to their inquiries, we are also endeavoring to provide more statistics and facts about all kinds of imaginable topics about Taiwan in our site.

Meanwhile, Taiwan.com.au Portal provides News Research and Compilation service. As we continue to recommend news articles and reviews about all aspects of Taiwan, we generally provide the names of their authors as well as their sources. We help those Internet users who cannot find these articles and reviews on the Internet by investigating, locating and compiling them into a polished news report.

Finally, we welcome comments and suggestions from our Internet users if there is any specific aspect of Taiwanese politics, economics, society or culture that we have neglected to cover. Please feel free to let us know your views and opinions.

Answer: As mentioned above, Taiwan.com.au Portal provides News Research and Compilation service to our Internet users who would like to receive professionally compiled and analyzed news reports on all aspects of Taiwan. Our Cultural Consultation service also enables us to conduct research projects such as Internet Research, Qualitative Study and Literature Review for Australian and worldwide English-speaking Internet users on "anything Taiwan".

In the near future, we plan to launch specific RSS news services that allow our Internet users to receive summaries of latest news reports and reviews about Taiwan. Full versions of these reports and reviews will still be provided. More details will be posted in our site soon.

Answer: As introduced in "Our Goal" of The Naughties Club, the first ten years of the 21st century are commonly referred to as "the Naughties". The term suggests innocence and creative subversion. Being one of "the Naughties" is to extend all existing boundaries in an innovative and playful way.

Some of our members have expressed concern that the term "naughties" may mislead Internet users to sites containing pornography. Alternative terms such as the "noughties" have also been suggested. Indeed, one is likely to find that currently on the Internet, the number of sites that use the term "naughties" and that of those using "noughties" are about equal.

We continue to use the term "naughties" because we trust that our members have sound judgments and unbiased worldviews. The existence of pornographic sites is a regrettable fact. However, we can do our best to eliminate the negative impact of this fact on our future generations, by maintaining a healthy mindset and encouraging our children to tell right from wrong. It is our firm belief that only with proper guidance and assistance from parents that children can enjoy the most benefits offered by the Internet.

Answer: Our staff can be reached by mail, fax, or email, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Our contact details are:

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