The Wild East staff A heads-up for all foreigners who love driving recklessly — Taiwan cops are finally getting savvy After a spate of recent high-profile cases involving deaths of innocents, Taiwan police are cracking down on drunk driving (or drink-driving if you prefer). This includes reining in foreigners under
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Day in the Life of a Temple Sister
Trista di Genova, The Wild East During a recent visit to the Foguang Shan Buddhist Monastery in southern Taiwan, the Ven. Miao Tan shared her story of entering the monastery. After “having doubts about life”, she came from Singapore to live and practice Buddhism, and learn “the value of life.”
Read moreNew Buddha Memorial opens in Kaohsiung, thanks to ‘a million well-wishers’
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East The Fo Guang Shan (‘Buddha Light Mountain’) Monastery in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan opened to the public this month its new memorial to the Enlightened One, an 108m-high, 1,780-ton copper statue that is the largest of its kind in Asia. The monumental effort entailed
Read moreFolk hero Scott Cook returns for Taiwan tour
Ian Kuo’sIan Kuo’s blog: “SCOTT COOK @ BOBWUNDAYE” Being a relative newcomer to the Taiwan music scene, I had no idea who Scott Cook was, other than what I had read online. I knew that he had played locally for several years, and that he later went back to Canada
Read more‘Horse eats Grass’ (馬吃蔡): Ma gets re-elected
POLITICS / The Wild East As W.E. predicted, KMT President Ma Ying-jeou won a fairly close election against DPP challenger Tsai Ing-wen. With a 74% turnout rate, Ma won with about 780,000 votes, or 4-5 percent over Tsai, 51.5% to her 45.6%. In Tsai’s concession speech, she resigned as DPP
Read morePredicting who will be Taiwan’s new president
POLITICS / The Wild East Tomorrow is a big day for the people of Taiwan. There is no such thing as a ‘vote from abroad’ here, so all 23 million people, if they want to vote, must travel to their hometown. This makes it difficult for some to vote, particularly
Read moreChinese Python Swallowing the Taiwan Frog
OPINION / By Linda Arrigo (permission to republish; originally here) The New York Times editorial, “To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan”, has raised my hackles – I always warned Taiwanese independence advocates that the US would sell them out, and here it is literal. I have not been following the
Read moreHow to speak some basic ‘Street Chinese’
by Trista di Genova If you are like me, you are trying to learn Chinese, the REAL spoken-in-the-streets kind of Chinese. But all your Chinese-speakin’ friends won’t answer your questions about how to say all the important stuff, because they don’t want to teach you ‘Bad Chinese’! (Of course, THEY
Read moreMy Run-In With The Dumpling Vendor
by Trista di Genova There’s this little place deep in the Heart of Banciao where they admittedly have some great shui-jiao but some lousy, cheese-emporium-like service. When I ordered some curry dumplings, they said they were all out – mai wan le so I tried to score some Korea-style dumplings
Read moreThanks for making The Wild East ‘most social blog’ in 2011!
Voting is closed for Taiwanderful’s Best Blog in Taiwan 2011! Thanks to all of you who voted us Best Blog two times before. : -) You went to this link and made it a tradition. We particularly enjoy Richard Saunders’ Off The Beaten Track travel blog, and Steven Crooks’ site
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