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The ‘Hole’ Story: My Two Months of Hell in the Taipei Detention Center By ‘M’ Read Parts One or two. I am a very stubborn person. I made myself a promise I would not let all that chaos break me and make me go nuts, no matter how long I
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The ‘Hole’ Story: My Two Months of Hell in the Taipei Detention Center By ‘M’ Read Part One here. So there I was in Sanxia… It was Christmas Eve, December 24th. We arrived there around 8 pm. There was a crew of police officers in different uniforms, more serious, cold
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Dear ‘M’, Do you have some time to write about your experience of spending 2 months in the Taipei Detention Center? We’d like to publish this on The Wild East, as it really concerns a lot of people, especially foreigners in Taiwan. Hi. Yes, sure, no biggie. I myself am
Read moreHow and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state — an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities By Trista di Genova The Wild East A few years ago, when producer Will Tiao and his crew were scouting locations for the film ‘Formosa Betrayed’, they discovered
Read moreDear Bloody Dave, I’m interested in trying a traditional, but quickly dying out, specialty in Taiwan called xiāng ròu (“fragrant meat”, 香肉, or “mutton of the earth”, 地羊 dì yáng) in Mandarin Chinese and “3-6 fragrant meat”, traditional Chinese: 三六香肉; fragrant meat). There’s one restaurant here in Miaoli where for
Read moreAlan Kwan was born in Hong Kong, and went to high school and law school there, then was an exchange student in Singapore and pursued graduate studies in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) in England. There, he applied for the MOE (Taiwan Ministry of Education) scholarship
Read moreBy 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
Read moreBy Trista di Genova Wild East Rooftop Correspondent “Do you have places like this in America?” the Madame asked me, in Chinese since her English is rocky. I doubt it – we don’t have KTVs in the States, I told her. I haven’t visited the cathouses in America, and only
Read moreThe Wild East Opinion Desk There’s something creepy about Chinese people trying to breed pandas. What’s this about showing ‘Panda porn’? ‘Sexercise’ for pandas? I wouldn’t go into oestrus, either, if only out of spite. China should back off its panda ‘preservation’ programs, stop intervening in panda sex by practically holding
Read moreBy Caleb Cole, in Taipei County There is an eccentric man in Xin Beitou selling pocket-sized novels of an overtly sexual nature outside of one of the Seven-Elevens en route to the public hot springs, for which the locale has come to be known. I randomly learned of his existence
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