Politics
The ‘Hole’ Story: Part 2
The ‘Hole’ Story: My Two Months of Hell in the Taipei Detention Center By ‘M’ Read Part One here. So there I…
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Culture
My ‘Hole’ Story: Two Months of Hell in Taipei Detention Center
Dear ‘M’, Do you have some time to write about your experience of spending 2 months in the Taipei Detention Center? We’d…
Travel
Tough questions raised about hiker’s unnecessary death
Friends and family claim Taiwan police, search-and-rescue operations were negligent after failing to use critical information to find a hiker who spent…
Travel
Strange Harmonies: Chilean Flirts with ‘Non-folklorized’ Music
Tonight I spotted a ‘foreign people’ nursing an iced coffee at 85-degree Café in Wanhua District, and called out my standard Chinglish…
News
Dispatch from Japan: Untold disaster stories
UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Ry Beville has been in Japan as a researcher for four years, studying early modern Japanese literature as…
Politics
Tsai Ing-wen to speak @ The Breakfast Club
Wild East News Staff From Prof. Keating: To all, Good news. We have our confirmation from Tsai Ing-wen’s office that she will…
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NTU prof to speak on nuclear affairs @ Breakfast Club
Wild East news staff The Breakfast Club, a group founded by Professor Jerome Keating that invites scholars to speak and lead discussions…
Society
Worst-case scenario: Court rules guilty in Scotsman’s trial
Tuesday at 4 pm, the judge at Taipei District courthouse read out the verdict in less than five minutes, and the group…
Expat Life
A Friend to Us All: On the Loss of Mark Bennett
Trista di Genova, The Wild East It happened in the early hours of Saturday, Jan. 22. Many may have missed the short…
News
TED Event: 'Hearts And Minds', changed to 9 April
Wild East news staff TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25…
Society
Defense 'optimistic' in Scotsman's hit-and-run trial
February 18th hearing, 10:10am Taipei District Courthouse, Bo Ai Rd. The courtroom filled up punctually, with about 20 foreigners, observers who are…
Expat Life
Last hearing to determine Scotsman’s fate in hit-and-run trial
Media are invited to attend the last hearing in the trial of Zain Dean, on Feb. 18th, 2011, 10am in Room 10…