On my visit to Kaohsiung I was keen to check out the Kaohsiung MRT system. The red line (north-south) officially opened in March this year and the orange line (east-west) is scheduled to open next month.

Tears (眼淚) directed by Cheng Wen-tang (鄭文堂) is a tough and gritty police drama. The style is quite a contrast to Cheng’s previous film, the teen romance Summer’s Tail (夏天的尾巴), which I reviewed earlier. Enno Cheng (鄭宜農) plays...

“There is a new dynamic at work. The worldwide movement to abolish the death penalty is now irresistible,” said Roger Hood in a public talk last night in Taipei. Hood is a Professor Emeritus of criminology at Oxford University and a former consultant...

I have already written about great Taiwan blogs part one and part two. After finishing those posts I realised there were still a few blogs I had inadvertently omitted. I’ll make amends with a third installment. Patrick Cowsill blogs on life in Taiwan...

Following yesterday’s post on some great Taiwan blogs, here are some more great Taiwan blogs in the categories of travel, photography, politics and tech. Travel Hiking Taiwan and Pashan are two blogs dedicated to hiking in Taiwan’s high mountains....

The Taiwan Best Blog Awards are now on and calling for registrations. I thought it would be a good time to link to and highlight some of the diverse and interesting Taiwan related blogs. Not all of these blogs are registered in the blog directory at...