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Democrats Abroad elect new Taiwan leadership
From DA Taiwan DEMOCRATS ABROAD: TAIWAN ELECTION MEETING at CARNEGIE’S TAIPEI DA Taiwan’s annual election meeting will be held on Wednesday, March…
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March 2011
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Expat Life
How to Make Learning Chinese Impossible: Taiwan's Got It Down
Hapless Chinese learners agree: the Taiwan-only useless system of ‘Bopomofo’ ought to be immediately phased out, and the agreed-upon phonetic system of…
Expat Life
Forumosa Happy Hour this Friday
Friday at 7:30pm – 1:00am Location: On Tap, Zhongxiao East Road Section 4, Lane 216, Alley 11, No.21 (忠孝東路四段216巷11弄21號) Taipei From Forumosa.com:…
Expat Life
‘Mobile pizza’ pans out for expat in Tainan
Rock Starkey, owner of Tin Pan Alley, talks with The Wild East about his entrepreneurial experiences after setting out with a mobile…
Society
Worst-case scenario: Court rules guilty in Scotsman’s trial
Tuesday at 4 pm, the judge at Taipei District courthouse read out the verdict in less than five minutes, and the group…
Expat Life
A Friend to Us All: On the Loss of Mark Bennett
Trista di Genova, The Wild East It happened in the early hours of Saturday, Jan. 22. Many may have missed the short…
News
TED Event: 'Hearts And Minds', changed to 9 April
Wild East news staff TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25…
Expat Life
Coffee with an immigration cop
I met my immigration police friend, Eric, at a café today for an informative chat. It’s always nice to run by him…