No dating, sex, marriage or having children with men: South Korea’s extreme feminist movement “4B” has gone viral in America and beyond since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.WHAT IS 4B?In Korean, 4B stands for the “Four Nos”: dating, sex, marriage and childbearing with men.The movement
While Americans face the upcoming second Donald Trump presidency with bright optimism/existential dread in Taiwan there are also varying opinions on what the impact will be here. Regardless of what one thinks of Trump personally and his first administration, US-Taiwan relations blossomed. Relative t
Is there a job you’re putting off finishing so you can read this story? Well, if new research into procrastination is anything to go by, you’d better get back to it.Scientists studying the psychology of people who leave things to the last minute have found that work that is submitted late tends to b
In mid-1949 George Kennan, the famed geopolitical thinker and analyst, wrote a memorandum on US policy towards Taiwan and Penghu, then known as, respectively, Formosa and the Pescadores. In it he argued that Formosa and Pescadores would be lost to the Chine communists in a few years, or even months,
Nov. 11 to Nov. 17People may call Taipei a “living hell for pedestrians,” but back in the 1960s and 1970s, citizens were even discouraged from crossing major roads on foot. And there weren’t crosswalks or pedestrian signals at busy intersections.A 1978 editorial in the China Times (中國時報) reflected t
The room glows vibrant pink, the floor flooded with hundreds of tiny pink marbles. As I approach the two chairs and a plush baroque sofa of matching fuchsia, what at first appears to be a scene of domestic bliss reveals itself to be anything but as gnarled metal nails and sharp spikes protrude from
What first caught my eye when I entered the 921 Earthquake Museum was a yellow band running at an angle across the floor toward a pile of exposed soil. This marks the line where, in the early morning hours of Sept. 21, 1999, a massive magnitude 7.3 earthquake raised the earth over two meters along o
Heretic opens with an unusual table setter: Two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are labeled as large even though they’re all pretty much a standard size. “What else do we believe because of marketing?” one asks the other.Tha
Olivia Rodrigo does not want to hear about Uranus. Or your planned trip to Mars, for that matter. The pop star recently told Netflix that she has an “oddly specific question” that she asks guys on first dates. “I always ask them if they would want to go to space … If they say yes, I don’t date them,
Nowadays, Taipei has no shortage of Indian restaurants. Just check my Uber Eats order history. But any authentic international feed needs knowledgeable chefs not only cooking their home cuisine, but unbending to local tastes. India’s savory, spicy and creamy is not an immediate match for Taiwan’s sw
Hourglass-shaped sex toys casually glide along a conveyor belt through an airy new store in Tokyo, the latest attempt by Japanese manufacturer Tenga to sell adult products without the shame that is often attached.At first glance it’s not even obvious that the sleek, colorful products on display are
Talent, discipline and a desire to please leader Kim Jong-un have helped propel North Korea’s youth footballers to two Women’s World Cup crowns in a matter of weeks, experts say.Nuclear-armed but impoverished, North Korea is more often in the news for sanctions-busting ballistic missile launches.But
A few months after the death of the neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks in 2015, I visited his office in midtown Manhattan to pass on my condolences to his friend and longtime editor Kate Edgar. Shelves were stacked with editions of every translation of Sacks’s books; piled on every surface were rea
The most popular Taiwanese political commentators in my opinion are not that good. Mostly, they just state what seems obvious. This is not to say that excellent Taiwanese political analysts do not exist, but they usually can only be found in more obscure outlets. I could name perhaps one or two doze
In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost all subsequent appeals. But today, more than three decades later, they unexpectedly have a chance o
“Designed to be deleted” is the tagline of one of the UK’s most popular dating apps. Hinge promises that it is “the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps” — the place to find lasting love.But critics say modern dating is in crisis. They claim that dating apps, which have been downloa
While global attention is finally being focused on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gray zone aggression against Philippine territory in the South China Sea, at the other end of the PRC’s infamous 9 dash line map, PRC vessels are conducting an identical campaign against Indonesia, most important
Nov. 4 to Nov. 10Apollo magazine (文星) vowed that it wouldn’t play by the rules in its first issue — a bold statement to make in 1957, when anyone could be jailed for saying the wrong thing.However, the introduction to the inaugural Nov. 5 issue also defined the magazine as a “lifestyle, literature a
Since their leader Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and others were jailed as part of several ongoing bribery investigations, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) has risen in the polls. Additionally, despite all the many and varied allegations against Ko and most of the top people in the party, it has held together with
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