Good Friends, Great Times: Behind The Scenes of This Year’s Peacefest

Trista di Genova The Wild East The juicy inside story of what went down in the making of this year’s music festival “Nice one! Rock on!” — Post-fest text message from Peace Dave What an incredible weekend. After being postponed three weeks, and wisely rescheduled for Taiwan’s Birthday, Triple Ten

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Every Dog Has Its Day: The Case of Animals Taiwan

Animals Taiwan founder Sean McCormack wants Taiwan to become a model nation in animal control policy By Trista di Genova Special to The China Post Originally published in May 2007 “Everybody wants a perfect dog,” said Animals Taiwan founder Sean McCormack in an interview at the organization’s rescue shelter in

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An Adventure 'round the Island: Couchsurfing, Hitchhiking, and Island Hopping

By Mary Weathers The Wild East As soon as I had secured myself a teaching position in Taipei, I decided to take a couple months off to tour the Island that is Taiwan. I needed to see more of the country; I had certainly not fallen head over heels in

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Answering In A Quiet Place: Taiwan Singing Legend Kimbo

Kimbo and I were able to have an extended chat that afternoon; he agreed to allow me to interview him for The Wild East Magazine, about his experiences not only as an award-winning Aboriginal singer, but what led him to become an activist and leader in Taiwan’s democratic and human rights movement.
Kimbo was born in 1950 in Xinku, Taitung, “near a small harbor of the Amis tribe,” he said. His mother was Amis and father Baiwan. He lived there until he was 2 ½ years old, then moved again to the village Jialau, near Taimali, his “final home,” as he called it.

“Typhoon loves us,” he said, of the village that floods and is nearly wiped away every few years; the latest devastation took place during Typhoon Morakot last August.

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Peacefest 2010: It Flows Like a River / 2010和平音樂祭:如河般流動

Press Release: Peacefest 2010 Nestled in an idyllic valley between lush green mountains – peace runs like the river through it – Taoshan, Hsinchu County will be the site of this year’s seventh annual Peacefest Music Festival, taking place Friday to Sunday, October 8-10 新竹的桃山,依偎在茂密的綠色山谷及田園之間,寧靜的小溪貫穿,這就是第七屆和平音樂祭坐落之處,時間定於10/8-10,星期五~星期日。 Up to four thousand are

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Will Tiao on 'Formosa Betrayed': ‘I can defend my movie to the T”

By Trista di Genova Wild East senior correspondent At a speaking engagement jointly sponsored by Prof. Jerome Keating’s Breakfast Club and the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club (TFCC) and held at Central News Agency’s headquarters in Taipei Saturday, Will Tiao, the American-born Taiwanese writer/actor/producer of a controversial new independent film, “Formosa

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First Days in Taipei: Paranoia and Preconceptions

By Mary Weathers The Wild East Here I am in a far away, foreign land. Here I am, or at least part of me. Here I am with a dismembered body and soul. Heart and mind are still at home fighting each other in a bloody battle of courage and

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'Extraordinary Measures' doesn't come clean

RE CNA story 5/25/10 on Harrison Ford movie in The China Post Dear Harrison Ford, As one of the great actors of the 20th century (and maybe the 21st century as well), you are very much admired by film-goers in Taiwan and all of Asia — in fact, all over

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A Pre-emptive Music Scoop: Scott Phipps

By Trista di Genova Staff Writer In September 2008, I interviewed for The China Post a clean-cut, charismatic Canadian entrepreneur in Taiwan who had started his own UN-consultative organization, Clean Development Group (CDG). I met him at The Wild East art exhibition, and later he was the perfect interview subject

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We pop the question to Taiwan's 'young heavenly king'

Jay Chou is the emperor of Mando-pop. But does he plan to conquer the West, too? By Trista di Genova STAFF REPORTER Westerners react to the music of Jay Chou (周杰倫) in one of two ways. They either see it as an introduction to Chinese language and culture; or they

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