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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…
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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…
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'VERMILION STORIES’ art opening tomorrow @ The Sugar Factory
The Wild East news staff The opening for British artist Tim Nathan Joel’s latest exhibition, ‘THE VERMILION STORIES SHOW’ (and 40th Birthday…
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Wild Times at the Pasta'Ay
Denis’ version: It was insane. So we’re sitting at my place hungover on a Sunday in late November. Trista’s already promised to…
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Taiwan Architecture: A Festival of Junk
How and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state – an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities…
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The Story of Taiwan’s Legendary Little People
The Legend of the Pasta’ay in my own words By Sean Kaiteri [Editor’s note: This exclusive aims to lend historical insight into…
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Austrian trade rep: ‘Coming back to Taiwan an easy choice’
First published as part of Trista di Genova’s “Know Your Trade Rep” series, on the Foreign Community Page of The China Post,…
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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…
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Typhoon Bloody Warning for British People
The Wild East Just ‘got wind’ of the AIT’s (American Institute in Taiwan) typhoon warning for U.S. citizens. Bloody hell, don’t Americans…
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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…
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An Adventure 'round the Island: Couchsurfing, Hitchhiking, and Island Hopping
The Wild East As soon as I had secured myself a teaching position in Taipei, I decided to take a couple months…
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Answering In A Quiet Place: Taiwan Singing Legend Kimbo
The Wild East Magazine Hsinchu County, Taiwan – In May, three friends and I went to Wufeng, a group of Aboriginal villages…