'VERMILION STORIES’ art opening tomorrow @ The Sugar Factory

The Wild East news staff The opening for British artist Tim Nathan Joel’s latest exhibition, ‘THE VERMILION STORIES SHOW’ (and 40th Birthday Party) is taking place at the Grand Exhibition Room of the Dulan Sugar Factory in Dulan, Taitung, at 4pm on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011. The Vermilion Stories are

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Wild Times at the Pasta'Ay

Denis’ version: It was insane. So we’re sitting at my place hungover on a Sunday in late November. Trista’s already promised to go to this aboriginal festival, the Pasta’ay in the Hsinchu mountains. First, we cross the street and go eat mifan at the xiaoche, where there were 2 hot

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Taiwan Architecture: A Festival of Junk

How and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state — an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities By Trista di Genova The Wild East A few years ago, when producer Will Tiao and his crew were scouting locations for the film ‘Formosa Betrayed’, they discovered

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The Story of Taiwan’s Legendary Little People

The Legend of the Pasta’ay in my own words By Sean Kaiteri [Editor’s note: This exclusive aims to lend historical insight into the Pasta’ay Festival of the Little People, taking place this coming weekend. Permission to reproduce this copyrighted material in any form lies with the author.] No one is

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Austrian trade rep: ‘Coming back to Taiwan an easy choice’

First published as part of Trista di Genova’s “Know Your Trade Rep” series, on the Foreign Community Page of The China Post, Feb. 9, 2009. NB: The current envoy is Dr. Walter Höfle Before coming to Taiwan as Austrian trade delegate in August 2002, Wolfram Moritz had a previous assignment

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Good Friends, Great Times: Behind The Scenes of This Year’s Peacefest

Trista di Genova The Wild East The juicy inside story of what went down in the making of this year’s music festival “Nice one! Rock on!” — Post-fest text message from Peace Dave What an incredible weekend. After being postponed three weeks, and wisely rescheduled for Taiwan’s Birthday, Triple Ten

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Typhoon Bloody Warning for British People

By David Johnson The Wild East Just ‘got wind’ of the AIT’s (American Institute in Taiwan) typhoon warning for U.S. citizens. Bloody hell, don’t Americans make a big deal out of everything? Next they’ll be making a Hollywood movie out of all this rain. Warnings like this only make people

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Every Dog Has Its Day: The Case of Animals Taiwan

Animals Taiwan founder Sean McCormack wants Taiwan to become a model nation in animal control policy By Trista di Genova Special to The China Post Originally published in May 2007 “Everybody wants a perfect dog,” said Animals Taiwan founder Sean McCormack in an interview at the organization’s rescue shelter in

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An Adventure 'round the Island: Couchsurfing, Hitchhiking, and Island Hopping

By Mary Weathers The Wild East As soon as I had secured myself a teaching position in Taipei, I decided to take a couple months off to tour the Island that is Taiwan. I needed to see more of the country; I had certainly not fallen head over heels in

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Answering In A Quiet Place: Taiwan Singing Legend Kimbo

Kimbo and I were able to have an extended chat that afternoon; he agreed to allow me to interview him for The Wild East Magazine, about his experiences not only as an award-winning Aboriginal singer, but what led him to become an activist and leader in Taiwan’s democratic and human rights movement.
Kimbo was born in 1950 in Xinku, Taitung, “near a small harbor of the Amis tribe,” he said. His mother was Amis and father Baiwan. He lived there until he was 2 ½ years old, then moved again to the village Jialau, near Taimali, his “final home,” as he called it.

“Typhoon loves us,” he said, of the village that floods and is nearly wiped away every few years; the latest devastation took place during Typhoon Morakot last August.

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