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'Woodstock' takes Taipei… 40 years on
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Despite how the U.S. was transformed by the 1969 Woodstock musical festival in upstate New York, Taiwanese filmgoers are…
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Strangely fascinating: China's 60th anniversary fanfare
Golden week came and went in high Indian summer up here in Qingdao. Temperatures in the thirties in the second week of…
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Taiwan's Betel Nut Culture Deeply Engrained
Annual production value has fallen sharply in the past decade, but the fruit of the betel palm still ranks as the second…
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Artists ‘Beat the Flood’, Raising Half A Million
The Wild East A charity art auction held at the Lili Gallery in Tienmu on Sept. 5, raising a remarkable half million…
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Fortune-telling Alive & Well in The Middle Kingdom
Certain practices and “superstitions” were frowned upon, violently so, during the Cultural Revolution – a recent hiatus in China’s rich and ancient…
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Peacefest spirit, gearing up
The Wild East Meeting under banyan trees in ShiDa Rd. park, organizers of this year’s Hoping for Hoping “Peacefest” gathered for the…
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People Mountain, People Sea… of Cars
September is here, and with it the teeming masses have left the beach – drunk down all the Tsingtao beer during the…
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Prepare for Death and Vaccine, Health Minister Warns
Phillip Charlier Department of Health (DOH) Minister Yaung Chih-liang (楊志良) said recently that people should not directly link death after treatment with…
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Japan's New Era
Japan and the East Asian region face a new era with the election of The Democratic Party of Japan. The ousted Liberal…
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Charity events for Typhoon Morakot victims
The grassroot efforts in Taiwan to raise relief funds for victims of the Aug. 9 Typhoon Morakot have been PHENOMENAL. The following…
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Taiwan, Mecca for Noodle-Lovers
for TheWildEast.net “I want noodle!” I have heard this shouted many times on the streets of Taiwan, by both children and adults…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
China heads to the beach
This is part of an exclusive, copyrighted series by British novelist Jonathan Chandler, “Lowdown on the Middle Kingdom.” For permission to publish…