Comedy
On a Lighter Note: Top 10 Pickup Spots in Taipei
My room-mate, a Kiwi, just moved from Hualien to Taipei, and asked me where he could find a girlfriend? What kind of…
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October 2009
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'OH, IF ONLY I COULD TEACH'
EXPATCHAT Compiled by Trista di Genova, published in The China Post 12/28/08 Another huge hurdle here in Taiwan: teaching qualifications. Everything’s cool…
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'Woodstock' takes Taipei… 40 years on
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Despite how the U.S. was transformed by the 1969 Woodstock musical festival in upstate New York, Taiwanese filmgoers are…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Strangely fascinating: China's 60th anniversary fanfare
Golden week came and went in high Indian summer up here in Qingdao. Temperatures in the thirties in the second week of…
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Taiwan's Betel Nut Culture Deeply Engrained
Annual production value has fallen sharply in the past decade, but the fruit of the betel palm still ranks as the second…