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A Dozen Ways Taiwan is Better Than China
Food is better. Whilst proofing news briefs for a Taiwan 🇹🇼 newspaper, I read a crazy story about how vendors in Beijing…
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Why I’ve Never Been to China (& prefer Taiwan)
Wild East Editorial / By Trista di Genova When I’m ‘stateside’ in the U.S., people first – almost invariably – make the…
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Mysterious Concrete Coffins in Tainan
In a southern district of Tainan, farmers carefully till their fields, working their way around ancient concrete sarcophagi that sit on the…
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Aging Farmers: High-Tech Island
While Taiwan, like many other developed nations, is facing the problem of an aging population, the crisis in the agricultural sector is…
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Taipei Light Pollution 台北的光汙染
(translated by 吳耀翰) Because Taipei city is such that the residential always mixes with the commercial, and since commercial buildings here often…
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The Tainan Earthquake: who is to blame?
It’s a little over 12 hours since a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern area of Taiwan and wreaked destruction on the…
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Would You Like a Drink with your Plastic? :D
Well, as we know, the world doesn’t revolve around the Sun anymore. Instead, we’ve got excess(ive) plastic packaging, unreused plastic bags, plastic straws,…
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The historic charm of Tamsui’s boardwalk
For me personally, Tamsui (淡水) has some of the most endearing of Taiwan’s features– fresh-air strolls along its lovely boardwalk, now Youbike-enabled…
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Voices in the Clouds
A still image from award-winning domumentary Voices in the Clouds. Watch Now A documentary by American Tony Coolidge about his personal journey…
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Maori-Taiwan exchange group forges ties
The Wild East / Culture Six Maori media studies undergraduates from Aukland University of Technology (AUT) made a tour of Taiwan in…
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Dihua street (迪化街) abuzz every Chinese New Year
Via pristine.net The name “Dihua” was given in 1947 by the Republic of China government, in reference to the city of Dihua…
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Who Killed ShiDa? The heart of Taiwan has died a slow death
Andy Singh, owner of Out of India restaurant, is one of the many small business owners in the ShiDa who has been…