Expat Life
Expat Chat: 'Having Kids in Taiwan'
Eryk Smith, 32, is an American writer who’s been in Taiwan over 10 years. ERYK: We had our child at Tai An,…
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Culture
Dear MeiGui: What's Up With Nudie Photo Albums?
Dear MeiGui; Not only are my local colleagues making my experience as an English school teacher a misery, but so are the…
Politics
Taiwan's true asset is its people, says Saudi ambassador
Mr. Talal Abdulsalam began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983, and studied at the Institute of Diplomatic Office for…
Opinion
Beyonce in Beijing: Shut up and dance?
The Wild East While China changes so fast the facts blur, one habit that remains is audiences sitting politely in their seats…
Travel
Them bones! A Taiwan-French connection
According to a recent article in the New York Times, a finger bone from the body of the late Li Tien-lu, the…
Travel
Aquaponics: Get It In Your Garden
The Wild East We know it works. Aquaponics is booming in Australia at present because of the water shortage. By contrast, farm-raised…
Dear Meigui
Dear MeiGui: My Taiwanese girlfriend is bankrupting me
Dear MeiGui; My girlfriend continuously insists on me buying her presents. We work at the same company in HsinChu and started dating…
Culture
When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but…
News
'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…
News
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…
Travel
Artists ‘Beat the Flood’, Raising Half A Million
The Wild East A charity art auction held at the Lili Gallery in Tienmu on Sept. 5, raising a remarkable half million…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Fortune-telling Alive & Well in The Middle Kingdom
Certain practices and “superstitions” were frowned upon, violently so, during the Cultural Revolution – a recent hiatus in China’s rich and ancient…