When I lived in China, I came across the notion that it is easy for a foreign man to find a girlfriend, or simply a bit on the side. From this notion, there sprang up so many questions, and one of them I have been asked and seen on forums is, are (Asian country) women […]
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Taiwan’s democracy, civil society, and all round freedoms are something to be proud of. But, there is one problem, freedom of speech isn’t so free. In Taiwan, defamation and public humiliation is, incredibly, a criminal offense under Article 310 of the Criminal Code. You might be thinking, “what’s the big deal about Taiwan’s libel law then?”, well, […]
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Quite a few people were asking me to post the figures for Americans living in Taiwan in 2017 and I have added on the rest of North Americans in Taiwan. Not surprisingly, Americans are the largest group from North America, following by Canada, Mexico and Haiti. Out of 12,291 North Americans, 9,855 (80.2%) were American, […]
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For the past few months, I have been interviewing NGOs, a few migrants and even got a documented interview from the Ministry of Labor, all about what is happening with migrant workers in Taiwan. Like most people in Taiwan, I did not realize just how terrible the law in Taiwan is to migrant workers. As […]
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Well, here is another look at demographics in Taiwan for foreign nationals, dealing with Southeast Asians. The majority of foreign nationals in Taiwan are unsurprisingly Southeast Asians, with most of them coming from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Southeast Asians: Form the Majority of Foreign Nationals They form 93.3% (674,626) of the total […]
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If there is one thing I can’t stand about Asia sometimes, it is the amount of Europeans or North Americans who mystify the “orient” or “east”. I have said this before but, why is it the only people here I know that do Kung Fu are Europeans or North Americans? Kind of funny to overhear […]
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Teaching English has always been something I hoped to avoid. I studied a degree in Chinese and International Business for four years and I am about to complete a master’s in international communications in the middle of next year. After 12 years of secondary and six years of third level education in two to three […]
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There are always little nooks and crannies around Taipei that you will come across if you veer off event the tiniest of bit. For me, that veering off has been happening everyday for over a year and I didn’t even notice the little wonder on my daily morning walk on my commute to work. The […]
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What has kept me feeling thankful in Taiwan the most is my scholarship. I am not sure if I could have pushed myself to come to Taiwan if I didn’t have a scholarship. I had the savings to make the trip here and set up shop, but I don’t think I would have had the […]
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If there was one thing I didn’t like about my time in China in 2013-2014, it was the censorship of the Internet. With the recent news that Skype has been removed from app stores in China, I wanted to rehash some reasons why I prefer Formosa over the Middle Kingdom. One of most obvious reasons […]
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