By Trista di Genova Wild East news desk Taipei — MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, celebrated linguist, philosopher and cognitive scientist, is visiting Taiwan next month to deliver a special lecture, “Contours of World Order: Continuities and Changes” at Academia Sinica, the nation’s premiere research institution, on Monday, August 9, and
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Struggling to earn, foreign workers face abuse in Taiwan
Editor’s note: This DPA feature article was picked up and published by NONE of the local newspapers, so we are publishing this wires feature because we feel it is an urgent topic to raise with the general public, and too important to leave unreported. DPA feature By David Chang Jul
Read moreTaiwan 'English' newspapers struggling to stay afloat
By Trista di Genova The Wild East Op-ed On an island sporting a tiny foreign community of 500,000, all three English-speaking newspapers here — Taiwan News, Taipei Times and The China Post — are battling to stay alive amidst severe budget cuts and a dwindling readership. One might even question,
Read moreDiane Wilson Appearance ‘Shocks’ Shareholders’ meeting in Taiwan
By Trista di Genova The Wild East magazine On June 9, Diane Wilson, a Code Pink co-founder and activist, was arrested after she doused and blackened herself with fake petroleum during an energy hearing in the U.S. Senate. Wilson was voicing anger over BP’s lack of liability in the catastrophic
Read more'New' Curriculum Ideas for Taiwan
Dear Taipei Times, I am a lecturer at National Taiwan University (NTU), but I also have had the opportunity to teach toddlers, elementary, high school and college students over the past two years. Regarding English instruction, it seems a pity that only parents who can afford Ivy-League tuition rates can
Read moreTaiwan Researchers Wage War on Male Hormones?
“A team of Taiwanese doctors have found a way to repress male hormones in what could lead to the prevention of liver cancer, reports said yesterday. The team led by China Medical University Professor Chang Chawnshang used animal testing to prove for the first time that the androgen receptor can
Read moreHong Kong envoy takin' care of business
Know Your Trade Rep By Trista di Genova Perry Fung joined the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in Taiwan in 1989. He has been working in various business Departments (Exhibitions, Publications and Business Matching Departments), as well as serving in the Council’s Sydney Office (1990-93) and Beijing Office (2005-2008), before
Read moreTaiwan men are constantly asking me out
Dear MeiGui; Taiwan people are great! I am a newbie here hailing from the US heartland, and although I speak no Chinese whatsoever, I’m having the time of my life making new friends both with my Western colleagues and the local people. Now, I realize that I am probably riding
Read moreWhat Can We Do For Earth Day… and Every Day?
By Trista di Genova In my grandparents’ generation, this was a popular proverb that urged us all to be resourceful, not wasteful: “MAKE IT DO, WEAR IT OUT, USE IT UP, DO WITHOUT.” If only we could all get back to this state of mind. Here are some ideas for Earth Day
Read moreADOGA: Rocking Taiwan
By Phillip Charlier for The Wild East ‘Adoga’ may be a mysterious word to people residing in the Wild West. The current number one result when you Google the word is American Dehydrated Onion and Garlic Association. In Taiwan, it has a very different meaning. It is the Hoklo Taiwanese word for a
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