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What a Taiwanese taxi driver thinks of foreigners
Name: Huang Zhen-yuan Job: Taxi driver Age: 48 Where do the foreigners in Taiwan come from? They come from everywhere. I consider…
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Expat Chat: 'Having Kids in Taiwan'
Eryk Smith, 32, is an American writer who’s been in Taiwan over 10 years. ERYK: We had our child at Tai An,…
Culture
Dear MeiGui: What's Up With Nudie Photo Albums?
Dear MeiGui; Not only are my local colleagues making my experience as an English school teacher a misery, but so are the…
Politics
Taiwan's true asset is its people, says Saudi ambassador
Mr. Talal Abdulsalam began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983, and studied at the Institute of Diplomatic Office for…
Opinion
Beyonce in Beijing: Shut up and dance?
The Wild East While China changes so fast the facts blur, one habit that remains is audiences sitting politely in their seats…
Travel
Them bones! A Taiwan-French connection
According to a recent article in the New York Times, a finger bone from the body of the late Li Tien-lu, the…
Travel
Aquaponics: Get It In Your Garden
The Wild East We know it works. Aquaponics is booming in Australia at present because of the water shortage. By contrast, farm-raised…
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Dear MeiGui: My Taiwanese girlfriend is bankrupting me
Dear MeiGui; My girlfriend continuously insists on me buying her presents. We work at the same company in HsinChu and started dating…
Culture
When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but…
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One Taiwanese Would Kiss All of Paris
A kiss just a kiss. Or is it? A Taiwanese woman named Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a…
Comedy
On a Lighter Note: Top 10 Pickup Spots in Taipei
My room-mate, a Kiwi, just moved from Hualien to Taipei, and asked me where he could find a girlfriend? What kind of…
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'OH, IF ONLY I COULD TEACH'
EXPATCHAT Compiled by Trista di Genova, published in The China Post 12/28/08 Another huge hurdle here in Taiwan: teaching qualifications. Everything’s cool…