Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang’s (黃國昌) New Year’s resolution was to get healthy and fit. On New Year’s Eve, he released a video detailing his journey and released photos showing off not only his progress but also his newly buff physique. Regardless of what one thinks of his pol
With Taiwan getting unprecedented levels of press over the past few years, it’s hard not to feel that there has been a fair amount of bandwagon-jumping amid the slew of books that has appeared. At first glance, this novel by veteran BBC journalist Frank Gardner could certainly appear opportunistic —
China’s government has long made efforts to tempt top scientists from abroad, but researchers say its institutions themselves are increasingly attracting talent thanks to their generous funding and growing prestige.State-backed initiatives like the Thousand Talents Plan have dangled fast-tracked hir
Sure, Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s (黃仁勳) little robot buddies.CES is a huge opportunity annually for companies both large and small to parade products
The Golden Globes return Sunday. The boozy, bubbly kickoff to Hollywood’s awards season will feature nominees including Timothee Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Emma Stone.The 83rd Golden Globe Awards ceremony begins at 8pm Eastern at the Beverly Hilt
Words of the Year are not just interesting, they are telling. They are language and attitude barometers that measure what a country sees as important. The trending vocabulary around AI last year reveals a stark divergence in what each society notices and responds to the technological shift.For the A
It’s a good thing that 2025 is over. Yes, I fully expect we will look back on the year with nostalgia, once we have experienced this year and 2027. Traditionally at New Years much discourse is devoted to discussing what happened the previous year. Let’s have a look at what didn’t happen.Many bad thi
Jan. 5 to Jan. 11Of the more than 3,000km of sugar railway that once criss-crossed central and southern Taiwan, just 16.1km remain in operation today. By the time Dafydd Fell began photographing the network in earnest in 1994, it was already well past its heyday. The system had been significantly cu
This is the year that the demographic crisis will begin to impact people’s lives. This will create pressures on treatment and hiring of foreigners. Regardless of whatever technological breakthroughs happen, the real value will come from digesting and productively applying existing technologies in ne
Down in Taipei’s student hub surrounding National Taiwan University (NTU), cheap and filling eats are a dime a dozen. Tucked into the bustling alleyways, Younghwaru also seems rather unassuming. Sharpie scribbles adorn the red-painted walls like any well-trodden student bar. Beers clink after long d
It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uighurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings.But today, if they download it, play it or sh
Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger here and the tilt of a head there, as she passes on a centuries-old art form.Khmer classical dance, performed to traditional music, is renowned for its graceful hand gestures and
The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, The Plague.The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history, but The Plague is set entirely around the clear, chlorinated pools and shadowy hallways of a water po
In the leafy back blocks of a military cemetery in northern Taiwan, Liu Te-wen (劉德文) strides through a room holding rows and rows of shelves. He stops and stoops to the lowest row, opening a small, ornate gold door. He pulls out an urn, bundles it into his lap, and hugs it.“Grandpa Lin, follow me cl
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was out in force in the Taiwan Strait this week, threatening Taiwan with live-fire exercises, aircraft incursions and tedious claims to ownership. The reaction to the PRC’s blockade and decapitation strike exercises offer numerous lessons, if only we are willing
Taiwan entered last year filled with uncertainty, yet the uncertainty ended up compounding and expanding. Clarity and stability would be nice this year, and perhaps some of both will be restored. The current geopolitical situation is unsettling, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided to cap o
Books that attempt to explain Taiwan in an accessible manner have proliferated in recent years. This can be traced to Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 visit to Taipei and China’s belligerent reaction, increasing the attention paid to Taiwan in international media and efforts to explain the country’s peculiar sta
For probably as long as there has been storytelling and certainly for as long as stories have been written down, there has been metafiction. The terminology is inescapably postmodern; the practice as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh — widely considered the first literary work — where a self-referential
When Cami Teacoach’s son turned three she set out to find volunteer opportunities they could do together. He made Valentine cards for senior citizens. They hiked and picked up trash. He helped harvest produce at community gardens and made seed balls out of mud, throwing them into the forest to promo
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