Taiwan citizenship: Give it away now!

Expat Chat Legal Issues

February 7, 2016February 16, 2016 Trista di Genova 5 Comments custody rights and legal battles, divorce in Taiwan, domestic violence, dual citiz, father Brendan O'Connell, Robin Winkler Wild at Heart Foundation, Taiwanese-US relations, The China Post, U.S. State Department and American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), visa runs

The Wild East / Editorial The Taiwan media is notorious for being lame and vacuous, heavily relying on lightweight ‘coverage’ of food stories and the like, since restaurant ‘tributes’ are an important cash cow for them. Chinese New Year ‘reporting’ is especially pathetic. One TV station (must have been TVBS!) replayed the same exact

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How to Move to Taiwan

American Taels Culture Shock

November 22, 2012January 15, 2015 Trista di Genova 1 Comment 小吃 eateries, banking Taiwan, baozi, breakfast shops, find a place to live in taiwan, how to find a job in Taiwan, how to speak basic everyday swearwords cussing out in Mandarin Chinese, language exchanges, Learning Chinese, moving to Taiwan, steambuns 包子, strange Taiwan food, Stranger in Taiwan, study in Taiwan, studying chinese medicine in Taiwan, taiwan computers, Taiwanese aboriginal culture, visa runs, voltage

Trista di Genova (and NTU students), The Wild East The following article is an expansion on class discussion with National Taiwan University students. The topic was “What to tell your ABC cousin about moving to Taiwan.” What to bring: Bring your own, preferably laptop computer because the operating system is

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