Author: Ma Guang Ming
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Cold out? You need a bowl of sugar
People need to be careful about what they say and how they say it in Chinese. How is there a story if every word is the same?
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Hungry Ghost Month -banishing a troublesome spirit
To mark the start of The Hungry Ghost Month, a tale about a visit to a temple to banish a troublesome ghost.
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Something fishy about your name
People can change their names three times in Taiwan. You might get lots of free food, and even make some money, but it can also lead to problems. Is Dr Salmon available?
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Geek world heaven
Taiwan is a great place for tech. You can buy the latest electronics as well as bigger gadgets, many not sold elsewhere.
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A murder that changed the world
How a murder in Taiwan led to the crackdown by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong
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Redefining convenience
When we explained to a Taiwanese friend that small towns in the UK and Europe don’t have 7-11 convenience stores, she was shocked. “How do people eat?”, she asked.
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Taiwan’s complex geopolitical place in the world
Taiwan, for decades a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard, has become something more like a bishop or a knight, a more strategically important piece in the game.
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Swirling, soaking, shuddering and smoking
We feel an earthquake every week or so. Then there’s the typhoons, the volcanoes and the rain.
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Your spaceship is arriving at platform two. The sounds of Taiwan
After the church bells of Switzerland, the first sound we noticed in Taiwan was the lyrical tune announcing the arrival of the recycling truck each evening.