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Exclusive interview with Lisa Furtado
The Wild East So how did Nelly Furtado’s sister end up teaching in Kaohsiung, Taiwan? I was tired of the routine of…
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Trista di Genova
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Arts
Me Birthday Fiesta on The Loof
For me birthday, I wanted Mexican food. Knowing all my other foreign friends here are commiserating, nay, jonesing for The Real Thang,…
News
'The Wild East' wins again, thanks to you!
Thank You Dear Readers, mille grazie, xie-xie nin… and Happy Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and so on! Thanks to all our…
News
One Taiwanese Would Kiss All of Paris
A kiss just a kiss. Or is it? A Taiwanese woman named Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a…
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…
News
'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…
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…
Comedy
Dear Rosanne: My Taiwanese BF called me 'big nose'
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…
Travel
Unpaving Paradise: Digging Up Taiwan's Ancient Heritage
Cited on megalithic.co.uk Most of us inhabit this earth as far removed in our daily lives as possible from the roots of…
Opinion
Lowdown on Shanghai: Hot town, Summer’s in the city!
The furnace season is here, along with the blessed Plum Rains, which this year have killed hundreds with unprecedented flooding and heavenly…
Travel
Dear Rosanne: My foreign neighbor lady doesn't like foreign things
Originally published in The China Post (but not published anywhere else online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Saturday night in small town, provincial China
A couple of weekends ago, just after the Chinese New Year known here as The Spring Festival (which seems both erroneous and…