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Exclusive photos: Students occupying Taiwan’s legislature
Editor’s note: The following photographs were taken by Dave Johnson on the evening when Taiwanese students occupied and took control of the…
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Scott Cook to wind up Taiwan tour @Sappho, Mar. 30
The Wild East / Entertainment Canada’s prairie balladeer Scott Cook is back in Taiwan, fresh from a tour of Australia, in the…
Society
Lessons for Taiwan: The HIV/AIDS pandemic
The largest and most important meeting on AIDS in Asia, the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP),…
American Taels
The Wild East stands in solidarity today against mass surveillance.
The day we fight back: https://thedaywefightback.org/ The NSA “has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data…
Politics
Letters from a tense Thailand
Jan 23. Phuket is like Detroit. A city they built for a population that isn’t coming anymore. A faded beauty. Since the…
Culture
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…
Expat Life
The Writing Cure: A Conversation with Trista di Genova
When the TIBE (Taipei International Book Exhibition) comes to town Feb. 5-10, 2014 two local expat writers will be represented, L. Farrah…
Comedy
How to tell someone off in Chinese
吵架必备汉语 The must-learn Chinese words when you are fighting with someone. 1. Go to hell. qù sǐ ba 。 去死吧。 2. You’re…
Arts
Expat author Furtado to present at Taipei Intl Book Exhibition
L. Farrah Furtado is an award-winning author living in Taiwan since 2002. First generation Canadian, her parents immigrated during the 1960’s to…
Arts
‘Gonzo’ returns for night of glee @ Taipei Comedy Club
Dan “Gonzo” Machanik in Association with The Taipei Comedy Club Presents “Gonzo Returns to Treasure Island” 10pm Friday 10th January, $200, Taipei…
Arts
Literary high felt at Taichung ‘Writ’ events
The Writ is a quarterly literary event that takes place at the Taichung Refuge, in the exotic setting of the former Dongshan…
Society
Taiwan EPA’s ‘smoking gun’: bogus air standards
The Wild East / editorial Real-time Taiwan air-quality readings here Who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present…