By Trista di Genova, The Wild East Rock Starkey, owner of Tin Pan Alley, talks with The Wild East about his entrepreneurial experiences after setting out with a mobile pizza truck in southern Taiwan. He urges expats to pool their efforts and start their own businesses THE WILD EAST: What
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Read moreName: Huang Zhen-yuan Job: Taxi driver Age: 48 Where do the foreigners in Taiwan come from? They come from everywhere. I consider my wife a foreigner. She came from mainland China. To me anyone who is not born in Taiwan is a foreigner. However, I should tell you that my
Read moreCorbett Wall has spent more than 20 years doing business in China. His American and Chinese heritage has given him a unique perspective when bridging the gap between east and west.
Read moreannert, 29, is from Edmonton, Canada. He came to Taiwan two years ago, “to get away, see Asia, similar to the situation of a lot of people here,” he says. In Canada, he was an investment banker, and “didn’t want to push paper anymore,” and managed promotion for a nightclub. In Taiwan, he taught English in Taipei County for a year. Three months ago, he and a friend took over the lease for Bliss, a popular pub and live music venue in Taipei.
Read moreHaving ousted the Democratic People’s Party based largely on voter’s disgust at massive corruption scandals, the Nationalist Party has also had to face a wary electorate who, while hoping for greater economic ties with the PRC, were also nervous of the political consequences.
The state of the cross-strait relationship is as follows:
Alice Cawte heads up the Australian Commerce and Industry Office (ACIO). She studied History at university before joining the Australian Public Service. She has worked in Beijing and Noumea (New Caledonia) and, of course, Canberra. She first came to Taiwan in 1991 to study Chinese.
Read moreTaiwan Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has Taiwan’s solar industry production may reach NT$500 billion by 2012.
Read moreWhile a lot of industries are facing problems in today’s tough economy, Taiwan’s bicycle manufacturing industry is booming.
Read more“Our image in China of being clean, green and safe there’s a risk that’s been damaged with this story. In China, they don’t know what Fonterra is, so reports just say `the New Zealand company’.
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