Young and single moms still face prejudice in Taiwan and are ostracized by family, friends and schools when what they need is support and education
By Diana Freundl
Today, mothers around the world are being honored for the pains and labors of child rearing, but the sacrifices made by teenage mothers are far from being celebrated. Taiwan has made notable advances in sex education and pregnancy prevention in the last five years, yet prejudice against an unwed mother often leaves her permanently ostracized from family and friends.

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For over 40 years, Doris Brougham and her Taipei-based 'Studio Classroom' have taught multitudes of people worldwide to speek and understand English
By Gavin Phipps
Over the past half-century hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese, be they high-ranking and influential government employees or modest high school and college students, have been inspired by Doris Brougham and her Studio classroom.

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Oxford professor, travel writer and TV personality Nick Middleton chronicles the challenges and hardships he faced in the Silk Road regions as they are now
By Bradley Winterton
"Coming from a world clogged with congestion," writes Nick Middleton, "I'd found it refreshing to traverse such vast tracts of physical geography, expanses of the natural world that remain largely untamed." Elsewhere he reasons: "Given we live in an age still obsessed with communications and the exchange of ideas ... the world's oldest superhighway might make a good theme for a journey of discovery."

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By Mark Davis
Listen up American students, Professor Friedman has a lesson for you: Globalization is revolutionizing the world.

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