Expat Life
‘Mobile pizza’ pans out for expat in Tainan
Rock Starkey, owner of Tin Pan Alley, talks with The Wild East about his entrepreneurial experiences after setting out with a mobile…
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business
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News
TED Event: 'Hearts And Minds', changed to 9 April
Wild East news staff TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25…
News
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…
News
Doing Business in China
China Business Network Founder Christine Lu interviews Corbett Wall,China Director, JDD Corbett Wall has spent more than 20 years doing business in…
News
Taking over Bliss: Interview with Travis Bannert
Bannert, 29, is from Edmonton, Canada. He came to Taiwan two years ago, “to get away, see Asia, similar to the situation…
Politics
State of the Strait, 08: Beijing-Taipei Dialogues
As 2008 draws to a close it’s worth looking at the results of the first nine months of the Chinese Nationalist Party…
News
ROC, Aussie ties ‘dynamic,’ says rep
Published 11/23/08 in The China Post TAIPEI, Taiwan – Alice Cawte heads up the Australian Commerce and Industry Office (ACIO). She studied…
News
Taiwan Sun Power Shines through Gloomy Economic Forecasts
Taiwan has long been known for making silicon wafers for computer memory chips. Now Green Energy Company (TPE: 3519) is investing in…
News
Bicycles Boom in Tough Economic Times
Article by Phillip Charlier Picture by Trista di Genova While a lot of industries are facing problems in today’s tough economy, Taiwan’s…
Opinion
Deadly Chinese Business Practices a Warning for Joint Ventures
Picture: AFP As of 16 September, 2008, over 1250 babies have fallen ill and 2 have died after drinking milk formula laced…
Opinion
Face and Fakery in the Wild East and West
“Westerners are not immune to the effects of surface appearances and fakery. One rarely sees an unattractive news reader on TV nor…