Safely arrived at #Taiwan's Taoyuan airport, via Istanbul this time. Off to #Taipei to drop that luggage at the hotel. Three very busy days ahead at Taipei Cycle Show, followed by almost two less busy weeks. Yay, bring it on, hoping to make it to Alishan in week two! #travel #FarEast #Asia

'Trumpflation' warning - Iran war could cost UK families at least £1,600 a year

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/trumpflation-warning-iran-war-could-36883634

Looks as if #Taiwan's opposition party #TPP has completely lost the plot. While the #KMT goes deep blue with its new chairwoman #ChengLiwun and courts #China, the TPP follows like a lap dog - out of obvious spite against the ruling #DPP.
Such a disappointment, this could have been an important step to break the stronghold of just two parties if only the TPP had insisted on doing its own thing and following its own #politics.
#FarEast #Asia #TaiwanisnotChina
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202603040015
TPP, KMT to announce joint policy platform on March 13: Huang - Focus Taiwan

The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) and Kuomintang (KMT) will announce a joint policy platform on March 13, as a prelude to a formal cooperation agreement ahead of Taiwan's November 2026 local elections, TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said Wednesday.

Focus Taiwan - CNA English News
More in the article by Yaroslava Kiryukhina: How once #indigenous village in #Kamchatka lost its fighting-age men to conflict; most of them were #Koryak and #Itelmen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8n4l8elpgo
#RussiaUnkraineWar #Russia #FarEast #genocide
Russia-Ukraine war: How one Russian village lost its fighting-age men to conflict

In the remote village of Sedanka in Russia's Far East, almost all of its fighting-age men have left to join the Ukraine war.

If you're still lying to yourself and think that #HongKong still enjoys #autonomy under the #OneStateTwoSystems idea, think again.
Autonomy, the #ruleoflaw and #civicrights are gone. Sentencing #JimmyLai to 20 years is ample of proof for that. #freedom is gone. And the ghoulish #CCP did not honor its promises at all.
Don't trust China, China is asshole.
#fucktheCCP #freeJimmyLai #StandwithHongKong #FarEast #humanrights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/jimmy-lai-sentencing-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-businessman

Ellie Bouttell's journey from China to the boxing ring via Cambridge university

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ellie-bouttells-journey-china-boxing-36644403