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Mature response to WHO required The following op-ed appeared in today’s Taipei Times: It is hardly surprising that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on...

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0April 13, 2020
Mature response to WHO required

The following op-ed appeared in today’s Taipei Times: It is hardly surprising that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on...
0April 5, 2020
Shadows at Yangmingshan

The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: On the 45th anniversary of his death, Chiang Kai-shek’s footprints can be...
0March 17, 2020
Mask claims fly in face of science

The following op-ed appeared in today’s Taipei Times. In June 1918, as it became evident that a deadly strain of...
0January 16, 2020
James Soong: The end of an (authoritarian) era in Taiwan

The following piece appeared in The Diplomat today: Amid the coverage of Tsai Ing-wen’s resounding victory and re-election as president...
0January 9, 2020
LGBT activists cautious ahead of elections

The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times If anything has been predictable about Kaohsiung Mayor and Chinese Nationalist Party...
2December 1, 2019
The Tao of Stephen Cheng: How a ‘Taiwanese’ folk song became a rocksteady classic

First recorded in 1949, shortly after the Nationalist (KMT) government took power in Taiwan, Alishan Maiden (阿里山的姑娘 ) is...
0October 23, 2019
Letting Off Steam (DestinAsian Magazine)

The following feature on Beitou District, my home for most of the past 13 years, appeared in the October issue...
0July 9, 2019
Bursting the bubble: a taste of Taiwan in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter

The following piece appeared in today’s Taipei Times. When Jorge Cheng (陳賢文) set up shop in Barcelona in 2013, he...
0June 20, 2019
A little bird in the hand

Folk taxonomy in Taiwan is marked by genericism. Rodents of all shapes and sizes are mice; the most diminutive of...

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Taiwan refuses to deport caregiver who ‘insulted’ Philippine president on Facebook May 7, 2020
"I felt that they listened to what I was trying to say, and it shows that they do value democracy here in Taiwan."
Mong Palatino
Netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand brew ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ against Chinese speech police May 4, 2020
Stars who depend on China's lucrative market have to watch what they say. Ordinary netizens? Not so much.
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Fighting the COVID-19 ‘Infodemic’ in the Asia-Pacific April 17, 2020
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Hong Kong censures public broadcaster for raising question on Taiwan's WHO membership status April 5, 2020
"I don't really understand why when a reporter is asking something relating to health, she [...] has to remember there is ‘One Country, Two Systems'…"
Oiwan Lam
What kind of rumours were circulating during the 2020 Taiwan presidential election? February 28, 2020
"...a majority of the rumors were aimed at dividing the Taiwanese society. They provoke people’s emotions and split the community into two political camps."
Oiwan Lam