Thanks for your vote. Every year Taiwanderful.net’s competition for Best Blog in Taiwan gets tougher; we won in the award’s first year, 2008. This year we got more votes than ever (149), but an upstart competitor (!), My Kafkaesque Life, busted a nut as the underdog, somehow clocking an incredible
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Dear TVBS!
Editor’s note: In Taiwan there is actually a TV station called “TVBS”. This piss-up was written in honor of the first television station to be up front about what they’re really all about. Dear TVBS, TVBS is always on the scene. There is never an incident of worldwide importance not
Read moreEagles coming to Taipei for one show
The Wild East Taiwan’s gonna get a dose of a “Peaceful Easy Feeling” one night only on Feb. 26, 2011, when the Eagles come to Taiwan for one show only. Ticket Prices: NT1,800 – NT12,000 SEATING Venue: Linkou Stadium, No. 250, WenHua 1st Road, Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. Google
Read moreEarly Taiwan Election Returns 2010
By Trista di Genova The Wild East Tomorrow’s Newspaper Today: Some early election returns in 5-city elections in Taiwan Highlights:Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) takes Tainan and Kaohsiung. Both parties held on to their strongholds. DPP didn’t do well in the industrialized North, a traditional KMT stronghold; but they held their
Read moreBlues Bash No.7 brings the Mojo to Taipei
Get your mojo working this weekend as Taiwan’s True Blues Festival presents the cream of the crop of both international and local bands and has gathered several thousand enthusiastic music fans all around Taiwan. The Blues Bash is a cultural, educational and festive event organized by the Blues Society of
Read moreHip Hop ONE LOVE Christmas party Dec. 18
By Wild East staff On Saturday, December 18, 2010 N.S.E. presents the Hip Hop ONE LOVE Christmas party! N.S.E. (New Stream Eternity) clothing company is sponsoring the “ONE LOVE” Hip Hop party to celebrate the coming together of people to hear great music. The holiday event will be featuring THC
Read moreTaiwan poised to become medical tourism hub — still
By Trista di Genova The Wild East Medical tourism in Taiwan doesn’t seem to be taking off as well as expected. Initial government efforts began with 2004’s ‘Health Tourism Guidance Task Force in Taiwan,’ funded by NT$10.5 billion (US$34 million) in July 2007 to market, develop and promote the island’s
Read moreDogs: Friend or Food?
Dear Bloody Dave, I’m interested in trying a traditional, but quickly dying out, specialty in Taiwan called xiāng ròu (“fragrant meat”, 香肉, or “mutton of the earth”, 地羊 dì yáng) in Mandarin Chinese and “3-6 fragrant meat”, traditional Chinese: 三六香肉; fragrant meat). There’s one restaurant here in Miaoli where for
Read more'Lovely and warped' Art Happening Friday, Nov. 5
Dear Friends, Join us this Friday, Nov. 5, 7pm till late, for a lovely + warped evening of audio/cultural/textual/visual exchange on SUPERIOR FRIDAY # 6. For this edition of Superior Friday, New Day Street [NDS] is honored to host the graduate students of Trans-Disciplinary Arts Department of National Taipei University
Read moreDisputed Islands a Flashpoint in a Greater Game
By Phillip Charlier The recent and ongoing dispute over the territorial sovereignty of the Diaoyu Tai/Senkaku islands is becoming one episode in a rapidly developing re-polarisation of the geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region. Both the Republic of China (Taiwan) and People’s Republic of China agree that the islands, located 186
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