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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…

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ByJulien Oeuillet

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Jun 2025

Long Format New ideas

Elders or Children? Taiwan’s Young Face an Impossible Choice

“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…

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ByAngel Yen

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May 2025

Long Format New ideas Tech

Who likes AI? Who doesn’t? A look at the world’s attitudes

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…

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ByIngyu Oh

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May 2025

Lines of Tension Long Format

Flying Bears Against Dragons: Training Taiwan’s Pilots

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.…

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Art That Breathes and Hums: Visiting Taipei Dangdai

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…

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ByIPON Newsroom

09

May 2025

Lines of Tension Long Format

India knows China can’t take Taiwan

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…

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ByAritra Banerjee

09

May 2025

Influence Long Format New ideas

Cracking the Code of Pop Culture: insights from Japan and Korea

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…

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The Warrior Spirit of Neimen

Drums roll and reeds buzz. Young people in colourful outfits rush and fight each other in perfect synch. On three sides, rows of seats have been erected for the audience…

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ByJulien Oeuillet

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Apr 2025

Lifestyle Long Format

How Chinese Speakers Choose Their English Names – and vice-versa

"Your name or your person, which is dearer? (Daodeching, XLIV)" People hailing from Chinese-speaking countries, and foreigners entering these countries, have the unique opportunity to decide what they want to…

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ByJulien Oeuillet

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Apr 2025

Influence Long Format New ideas

Baseball Fairies: Taiwan’s “Cheerleaders’ Diplomacy”

It is Taiwan's national sport. Baseball gets people moving all around the island, riveted to their television or lining up to enter stadiums. It has a tangled history of colonialism…

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ByErya Hsue

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