2021/06/16 |
‘River of Exploding Durians’ Makes a Virtue of a Small Budget
On the surface a critique of Malaysian political corruption and societal acquiescence — and it still is that — ‘River of Exploding Durians’ is grounded in one young man’s devastation at losing everyone he cares about.
2021/06/15 |
Taiwan’s ‘Pineapple War:’ Opportunity Amid an Industry Crisis
China’s recent ban on pineapple imports provides an occasion for policymakers to rethink Taiwan’s dependence on the Chinese market for agricultural exports.
2020/12/22 | Sponsored
GARAOTUS partners up with intel and Advantech to provide genomics solutions by AI-HPC technologies is a silver lining in post-pandemic era
Advancements in genomics are opening new doors for understanding human diseases and are increasingly informing innovative precision treatment plans. However, genomics sequencing generates hundreds of petabytes of data per year. Researchers and scientists require tools to analyze these enormous volumes of data in a timely manner to gain insights into disease and possible treatments. GARAOTUS provide the AI-HPC technologies to accelerate genomics workflows. Performance gains include a 75 percent speedup for the BWA performance.
2021/06/12 |
Taiwan’s Bygone Species and Their Possible Return
Bringing extinct species back from oblivion is no easy task. But the good news is Taiwan has experience in this realm.
2021/06/11 |
Lost Dreams of FamilyMart
Convenience stores were once a path to Taiwan’s middle class and a sign of economic transition to a service economy. But today a budding filmmaker’s experience working at FamilyMart reflects a stagnancy that haunts a generation.
2020/11/13 | Sponsored
Taiwan Sets First Creative Content Fest Dedicated to All Modes of Creativity
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic might have paralyzed global travel but that has not stopped Taiwan from flexing its muscles and putting its film and entertainment content on the world stage.
2021/06/11 |
The KMT’s Twitter is a Dumpster Fire
Taiwan’s main opposition party, the KMT, accused Singaporean dissident Roy Ngerng of being an “extreme white supremacist” on Twitter. Patently false and absurd as it is, the charge adheres to the logic of a moribund institution.
2021/06/10 |
The Miaoli Lockdown and Taiwan’s Migrant Worker Apartheid
The Miaoli lockdown is an extension of what the system of laws pertaining to Taiwan’s migrant workforce has always been — a set of rules which amount to legalized oppression and legislatively-backed racism.
2020/11/13 | Sponsored
TAICCA Initiatives Help Taiwanese Content Ride Cultural Wave to Global Distribution
In July, TAICCA initiated the First Mile program, linking publishers, scriptwriters, and investors for the Print-to-Screen Adaptation Content Development Plan to boost TV and film production in Taiwan. The program extends to the 2020 Taiwan Creative Content Fest.
2021/06/10 |
A Yutori Dystopia: Izumi Suzuki’s ‘Terminal Boredom’
In exploring life in distinct science fictionalized futures, Izumi Suzuki’s stories take on a dystopian tinge, one that presages an entire generation of Japan’s youth.
2021/06/07 |
The Ocean-Wide Quarantine Approaches in Japan and Taiwan
The way Japan and Taiwan manage their quarantine on arrival systems is marked by difference.
2020/10/30 | Sponsored
GARAOTUS, a new brand of cloud service from SYSTEX, whose AI-HPC technology ranks the top 10 in the Asia-Pacific region
Acting preemptively, SYSTEX launched a new brand, GARAOTUS, aiming to worldwide market with the leading HPC technology.
2021/06/02 |
How Taiwan’s Cram Schools Have Struggled to Adapt
When Taiwan went on semi-lockdown, many cram schools moved to remote learning. The process, many teachers report, has not been as smooth as it could have been.
2020/10/15 | Sponsored
Taiwan Government supports International Startups and Incubators, Integrated Multiple Preferential Measures
Taiwan government provides “Registration Mechanism of International Incubators of Ministry of Economic”, which integrated cross-ministerial administrative preferential measures, providing one-stop service by Taiwan Accelerator Plus (TAcc+) of the Institute for Information Industry.
2021/06/01 |
Opinion: China Needs a More Modern Family Policy
China wants more children: After decades of strict birth control, each Chinese family is now allowed to have three children. But an imminent baby boom remains wishful thinking.
2021/05/28 |
Why Taiwan Should Pay People To Stay Home
To ensure everyone in Taiwan is financially protected from the economic harm of Covid-19 and the semi-lockdown, we advocate for an unconditional payment of NT$15,000 for adults and NT$5,000 for dependents.
2019/12/04 | Sponsored
Five Things You Should Know About “Motorbike Electrification” with the Advent of the New Motorbike Era
Taiwan, known as the “kingdom of motorbikes,” not only has a mature motorbike supply chain, but also is an important ICT industry export nation. However, the government resorted to “the coexistence and co-prosperity of gasoline & electric powered vehicles”. What are the blind spots of such a practice?
2021/05/27 |
An Elegy for Tehpen Tsai
The life of Tehpen Tsai, a teacher, writer, playwright, and former political prisoner provides a different kind of insight — as valuable as figures of wider renown — to Taiwan’s history.
2021/05/27 |
Anger in Tokyo Over the Summer Olympics Is Just the Latest Example of How Unpopular Hosting the Games Has Become
Tokyo’s predicament is only the latest and most extreme example of the way host cities of international events tend to lose interest by the time they happen.
2019/07/05 | Sponsored
2019 APEC the SMEA of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Hosts Innovation Sandbox Forum
We are looking forward that through "2019 Innovation Sandbox Forum", by the mutual agitate between the representatives of experts from various countries, we could enhance the understanding of all walks of life about innovation sandbox, and continue to spread the concept and spirit of innovative experiments, promote the application and development of smart technology, thus bringing a more convenient life for the people.
2021/05/21 |
The Case for Snap Lockdowns in Taiwan
The growing outbreak of community transmission in Taiwan requires a different approach from current practices.
2021/05/20 |
Singapore’s Government Is Not ‘Pro-Worker.’ These Charts Show How.
Singapore is not pro-worker. If anything, it is pro-GIC and pro-Temasek Holdings, and it is pro-ministers – while workers are left to languish.
2019/06/25 | Sponsored
Open Innovative Sandbox! The government creates the field for experimenting innovative applications, and invites the experts, business owners, and civil community to create the future of smart life
Facing the impacts that technological innovation might bring on the industries, how should the government coordinate among the existing business owners, new players, and the consumers, update the current laws, and create a three-way win? What kind of “warm power” does Taiwan have to build a better and more convenient life for its people, and raise the international publicity at the same time?
2021/05/18 |
Abandoning Anthropology, From Virginia to Taipei
In the traditional model, anthropologists venture off to their field sites, do their research, and then go back to their home institutions to write up and share their findings. What might a different kind of relationship to Taiwan look like?
2021/05/18 |
Asia Pacific Travel Bubbles and the Covid-19 ‘Diseasescape’
New arrangements like travel bubbles have re-arranged the globe into spheres of mobility.