People world over are shifting from conventional print edition to online for gathering any kind of information. Gone are the days when you used to hunt for magazines for reviews and news about anything. Every thing is available on internet, not from the people who are paid to write but real users. Hence, credibility in the eyes of users of blogs and review websites is increasing day by day. Whenever anything new strikes your mind you simply go and search the item in a search engine and start browsing the subject of your interest. Print editions are becoming highly unfashionable because of their limitation to produce content after a lag only and also, they are not even quality wise superior to online. Now, experts even want to break the news hot and people are exposed to it via many online channels like Google, digg twitter etc. However, it beginning to change the lifestyle habit of people and vast majority of print editions of well known News Papers and magazines are on the verge of closure. Once gone what would you miss?
Taiwanese are gripped into a new Fad. This time it is running. From 12 years old school going children to 70 years old retired person, everyone wants to circle around their own home island. They are not going on bicycle or any machine, they want to complete it on their own feet. Last year in Taipei, Timothy Liu, a 12 year old, with his 47 year old father, decided to circle around the entire island. It has a circumference of around 1200 kilometers. Both of them did it on foot, with some occasional rides from strangers. Summer heat, earthquakes, typhoon and mosquitoes could not make any deterrence to their determination. They completed it in 51 days! This exemplary evidence of courage and determination caught the eyes of other fellow Taiwanese, who too started this operation. This fever is called HuanDao, meaning circling around the island.
Taiwan's President, Mr. Ma YingJeao, circled the island on bicycle during his election campaign. He was followed by a large number of journalists…
Taiwan's President, Mr. Ma YingJeao, circled the island on bicycle during his election campaign. He was followed by a large number of journalists…
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