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Bringing Taiwan to life

By Ian Bartholomew

Taiwan has worked hard over the last decade to promote itself as a tourism destination, but has long had difficulty competing with its near neighbors such as Thailand, China and Malaysia. The effort has had some impact, with inbound tourism numbers rising from 2.25 millionFULL STORY

CD reviews2013-05-21

By Jon Caramanica and Nate Chinen

DEMI, Demi Lovato,Hollywood Aggrievedness suits Demi Lovato well; always has. In her Disney days, she was — relatively speaking — the hellion of the crew, interested in abraded rock, tough girl postures, and smiles that cracked to reveal sneers. Her years since teen-idol days have been chaotic:FULL STORY

Book review: Seating Arrangements2013-05-21

By Bradley Winterton

There has been a great deal of hype surrounding this novel, but almost all of it seems to me to be deserved. Confirmation of this high praise is that it won the Dylan Thomas Prize for 2012, one of the most valuable prizes for English-languageFULL STORY

Top Five Mandarin Albums2013-05-21

1. Aska Yang (楊宗緯) and First Love (初愛) with 31.85 percent of sales 2. Rene Liu (劉若英) and For the Loved (親愛的路人) with 25.45% 3. Michelle Chen (陳妍希) and Me, Myself and I with 7.34% 4. JJ Lin (林俊傑) and Stories Untold (因你而在) with 7.14% 5. Allen Yu (宇倫)FULL STORY

Taking it easy, taking it slow2013-05-20

By Jason Pan

The domestic tourism market is trying to keep abreast of ever-changing tastes and shifting worldwide trends and as Taiwan’s population ages, tour operators have begun to turn their attention to the needs of senior citizens. “Due to medical progress in recent decades, older folks areFULL STORY

A tale of two voices2013-05-20

By Joe Henley

Bulareyaung Pagarlava, a Cloud Gate Dance Theatre performer and prominent figure in Taiwan’s performing arts scene, traveled to Hualien County in early 2012 to watch a performance by singer/songwriter Sangpuy Katatepan. After the show, Sangpuy asked Bulareyaung whether he could speak the Paiwan language, andFULL STORY

Into the mystic2013-05-19

By Noah Buchan

Eslite Gallery (誠品畫廊) is currently holding a retrospective exhibition on the work of Yeh Tzu-chi (葉子奇), titled Dialogue — Monologue (對話‧獨白). Divided into four themes — landscape, still life, home-sickness and life records — the 30 paintings from 1980 up to the present offers aFULL STORY

Opera: Trying something old2013-05-18

By Enru Lin

It’s 9am on a Saturday and Eric Thompson is wide awake. To his left, a husky woman is singing in a reedy falsetto. There is also live accompaniment: a mandolin, a wooden castanet, cymbals, a gong and an energetic Chinese fiddle. Thompson, 21, is a soldierFULL STORY

Restaurant review: HowFun Paella Bar 好飯食堂2013-05-18

By Ian Bartholomew

The name of the HowFun Paella Bar (好飯食堂) in Chinese is a play on “good rice,” which seems fitting for an establishment purporting to prepare one of the world’s classic rice dishes, the Spanish paella — which in terms of culinary iconography is right upFULL STORY

Green holidays2013-05-17

By Ho Yi

Monitoring the health of Taitung’s coral reefs, cleaning beaches on the island of Penghu and maintaining wetlands in Yangmingshan (陽明山) are among the working holiday activities offered by the Taiwan Environmental Information Association (台灣環境資訊協會, TEIA) for volunteers who want to give something back to motherFULL STORY

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