Four cooks enter the stage and start beating their knives in rhythm on chopping blocks. Then they turn their pans into cymbals using spoons. You might think the three men…
“Mom, if I’m going to take care of you when you’re old, I won’t be able to raise my own kid—and vice versa.”
— Kuan, 30s, mortuary worker, Taipei What…
There is a striking divide between countries that love AI and countries that fear it — with many nuances in between, of course, but the contrast is fascinating. Recent data…
Every day, Taiwan’s fighter pilots rise before dawn, knowing the sky is their battlefield. The buzzing of PLA jets in Taiwan’s airspace is no longer breaking news—it has become routine.…
Who is this handsome gentleman? This is Louis Chung. He made this costume. As in, he designed it? Designed it and tailor-made it with his team. Louis is the owner…
At the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, it doesn’t take long before you forget you’re at a trade fair. Taipei Dangdai is the kind of art fair that doesn’t just…
The Taiwan straits is far from India, but we look at it. The sea separating China and Taiwan is deceptively narrow—barely 130 kilometres at its widest—but beneath the waves lies…
Japanese pop culture first captured global attention in the 1950s, when postwar melodramatic films found international audiences. But its true global breakthrough came in the 1980s with the rise of…
