Travel
For Cape No. 7 actor, 'taike' means not forgetting history
Pongfong spraypaints a wall at Radio Banciao, leaving his mark. Photo: TdG Pongfong Wu (吳朋奉) is a complex character to describe. Professionally,…
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Trista di Genova
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Opinion
The Ox Year: From Under the Bund
The New Year of the Ox was heralded in Shanghai by silent shuttered shops and six days and nights of fireworks, often…
Opinion
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city – you’d better believe it… One of the massive construction projects for the Shanghai…
Opinion
The Meltdown of English Teaching in Taiwan
It’s not just the economy; Taiwanese have money. They are among the best savers in the world, and have invested, thrown money…
Travel
The Rise of The Bushiban in Taiwan
Originally published in The China Post, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008; this is the exclusive online publication for The Wild East. In 2007,…
Travel
Aussie marries in Aboriginal affair
For the Huang family, it was the marriage of a decade. Last Saturday, the track area of a junior high school in…
News
'The Betelnut Experience'
Kelvin “MC Insatiable” Alders is from Edmonton, Canada. KELVIN: I chew betelnut every time I hang out with my Taiwanese boys. Half…
Culture
Scott Sommers enlightening the blogosphere
Google Scott Sommers, and you’ll get over 2.2 million responses. Why? His blog covers a litany of subjects affecting both Taiwanese and…
News
Dear Rosanne: Why do some Taiwan men grow long pinkie fingernails?
Dear MeiGui; Why do some local men in Taiwan grow their fingernails very long on their pinkie fingers? I have been told…
News
Thoughts on Taiwan's new 'smoking ban'
Interviews by Trista di Genova Published in The China Post, 22 March 2009 Benjamin Kotin is half-Taiwanese, half-American, from Seattle, Washington, and…
News
Dear Rosanne: Foreigner girls don't like local guys like me
Originally published in The China Post, 3/22/09 (but not published anywhere else online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for…
Travel
NTU student looks at faith in Taroko tribe
Abridged version in The China Post 3/15/09 Many in Taiwan know Angel Cvetkov for his resonant Eddie Vedder-like voice as the lead…