Pierre Cote spent years languishing on public health waitlists trying to find a therapist to help him overcome his PTSD and depression. When he couldn’t, he did what few might consider: he built one himself. “It saved my life,” Cote says of DrEllis.ai, an AI-powered tool designed to support men faci
During the Metal Ages, prior to the arrival of the Dutch and Chinese, a great shift took place in indigenous material culture. Glass and agate beads, introduced after 400BC, completely replaced Taiwanese nephrite (jade) as the ornamental materials of choice, anthropologist Liu Jiun-Yu (劉俊昱) of the U
Aug. 25 to Aug. 31Although Mr. Lin (林) had been married to his Japanese wife for a decade, their union was never legally recognized — and even their daughter was officially deemed illegitimate. During the first half of Japanese rule in Taiwan, only marriages between Japanese men and Taiwanese women
In the next few months tough decisions will need to be made by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and their pan-blue allies in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). It will reveal just how real their alliance is with actual power at stake.Party founder Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) faced these tough questions, which
Standing on top of a small mountain, Kim Seung-ho gazes out over an expanse of paddy fields glowing in their autumn gold, the ripening grains swaying gently in the wind. In the distance, North Korea stretches beyond the horizon.“It’s so peaceful,” says the director of the DMZ Ecology Research Instit
Not long into Mistress Dispeller, a quietly jaw-dropping new documentary from director Elizabeth Lo, the film’s eponymous character lays out her thesis for ridding marriages of troublesome extra lovers. “When someone becomes a mistress,” she says, “it’s because they feel they don’t deserve complete
Who would say work was fun? Your job might be rewarding (some of the time). You may get on with your colleagues (some of them). But fun? It seems simultaneously too grand an ambition and too small.After the work-centric “hustle culture” of the 2010s, then the backlash and widespread burnout brought
James Cameron has a confession: he can’t write Terminator 7. And it’s not because Hollywood won’t let him, as he’s too busy making the new Avatar — it’s because reality keeps nicking his plotlines. “I’m at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,” Cameron told CNN this wee
The skies are blue, the sun unrelenting and the body count escalating in the Bakersfield, California, of Honey Don’t!, where Margaret Qualley’s private investigator tries to get a handle on the nefarious goings-on in her city with a small-town feel.It’s the second film in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke
This year's Taiwan International Human Rights Film Festival is to center on the themes of human rights, environmental rights and Hokkien (commonly known as Taiwanese), according to the Ministry of Culture (MOC).Hosted by the National Human Rights Museum and overseen by the MOC, the festival will be
The next few months will be critical in determining the future of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP).Following party founder Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) arrest in September last year, Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) effectively became the de facto face of the party and officially became chairman in January. While Ko frequ
Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines’ bloody national obsession: cockfighting. They were murdered by rogue police, a government witness said, allegedly for rigging matches at the height of the country’s pandemic-era
Shanghai’s golden age spanned the 1920s and 1930s, when the city flourished as a commercial and cultural hub in Asia, attracting tens of thousands of Westerners — the Shanghailanders. The city was a genuine melting pot, with East and West colliding to spawn fantastic fusions — shidaiqu (時代曲), a mash
Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat’s milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters preparing for their first tattoos.The practice of elder women needling delicate shapes onto the faces, hands and arms of younger generations stretches back centuries in the Hi
Jess has never touched a slot machine, played the lottery or bought a scratch-off, but she fears she may have a gambling problem nonetheless.This July, the 28-year-old found herself spending up to US$270 a week on blind boxes — that is, surprise items that are sold in sealed, opaque packaging. Activ
Something is thinning in public space. Pavements are still crowded. Parks still bustle. But if you look more closely — or, better still, if you measure it — the texture of our interactions has changed.Together with colleagues at Yale, Harvard and other universities, we used AI to compare footage of
It was on his honeymoon in Kuala Lumpur, looking out of his hotel window at the silvery points of the world’s tallest twin skyscrapers, that Frank decided it was time to become taller. He had recently confessed to his new wife how much his height had bothered him since he was a teenager. As a man de
“What happened?” Scott, 82, asked Bruce, 78, when his younger brother picked up the phone and called him after a 15-year estrangement. “I grew up,” Bruce said. “I’ve been stupid and I really miss you.” The brothers had missed a decade and a half of each other’s birthdays, milestones and memories mad
Before the recall election drowned out other news, CNN last month became the latest in a long line of media organs to report on abuses of migrant workers in Taiwan’s fishing fleet. After a brief flare of interest, the news media moved on. The migrant worker issues, however, did not. CNN’s stinging t
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