[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"527","ar_id":"2003827603","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-28","ar_head":"Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: N. Korea bombards South with noise","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea\u2019s border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair.Before it started, 56-year-old Kim Yun-suk fell asleep to the hum of insects and woke t","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/28\/2003827603","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827603","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"This undated picture released by North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on Tuesday shows North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un, center, visiting a construction site for a shallow-sea aquaculture plant in the city of Sinpo, South Hamgyong Province.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/28","ph_fname":"P13-241128-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/P13-241128-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/thumbs\/P13-241128-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Hillel Italie","ar_views":"56","ar_id":"2003827604","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-28","ar_head":"Will Trump\u2019s return lead to a new wave of bestselling books?","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"As she anticipates her estranged uncle\u2019s return to the White House, Mary Trump isn\u2019t expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff\u2019s million-selling Fire and Fury or her own blockbuster, Too Much and Never Enough.\u201cWhat else is there to learn?\u201d she says. \u201cAnd f","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/28\/2003827604","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827604","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"Moderator Judy Gold, left, and Mary Trump in September discuss Trump\u2019s book <i>Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir<\/i> at The 92nd Street Y in New York.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/28","ph_fname":"P14-241128-302.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/P14-241128-302.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/thumbs\/P14-241128-302.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By James Tapper","ar_views":"420","ar_id":"2003827544","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-27","ar_head":"Don\u2019t know what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Just ask ChatGPT","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Some people love buying Christmas presents. Polly Arrowsmith starts making a note of what her friends and family like, then hunts for bargains, slowly and carefully. Vie Portland begins her shopping in January and has a theme each year, from heart mirrors to inspirational books. And Betsy Benn spent","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/27\/2003827544","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827544","ph_attr":"Photo: EPA-EFE","ph_cap":"Visitors in December last year look at an art installation with a Christmas tree decoration in the \u2018Le Grand Noel\u2019 (The Great Christmas) exhibition at the Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris, France.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/27","ph_fname":"p13-241127-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/27\/p13-241127-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/27\/thumbs\/p13-241127-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Tory Shepherd","ar_views":"498","ar_id":"2003827545","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-27","ar_head":"Why \u2018enshittification\u2019 is Macquarie Dictionary\u2019s word of the year","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"\u201cWe\u2019re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,\u201d author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.In 2022, Doctorow coined the word \u201censhittification,\u201d which has just been crowned Macquarie D","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/27\/2003827545","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827545","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of the Macquarie Dictionary","ph_cap":"The Macquarie Dictionary has named \u2018enshittification\u2019 as its word of the year.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/27","ph_fname":"p13-241127-mbook.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/27\/p13-241127-mbook.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/27\/thumbs\/p13-241127-mbook.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Courtney Donovan Smith \u77f3\u6771\u6587 ","ar_views":"1026","ar_id":"2003827489","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-26","ar_head":"Donovan\u2019s Deep Dives: Could a MAGA-like movement arise in Taiwan?","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Big changes are afoot in global politics, which that are having a big impact on the global order, look set to continue and have the potential to completely reshape it. In my previous column we examined the three macro megatrends impacting the entire planet: Technology, demographics and climate.Below","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/26\/2003827489","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827489","ph_attr":"Photo: Wang Kuan-jen, Taipei Times","ph_cap":"Supporters of Taiwan People\u2019s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je on Sept. 8 protest in Taipei after he was detained for alleged corruption.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/26","ph_fname":"p13-241126-001.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/26\/p13-241126-001.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/26\/thumbs\/p13-241126-001.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Hieun Shin","ar_views":"414","ar_id":"2003827490","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-26","ar_head":"K-pop fans take aim at CD, merchandise waste","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"K-pop fan Kim Na-yeon used to buy stacks of the same album when there was a new release, hoping to find one of the rare selfies of her favorite stars tucked between the plastic covers.Over the years, her burgeoning CD collection expanded to every inch of her shelves, prompting her to question its im","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/26\/2003827490","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827490","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"Fans in April queue up to buy the new album <i>17 is Right Here, <\/i> by South Korean boy band Seventeen (or SVT), outside a convenience store in the trendy Hongdae neighbourhood of Seoul, on the day of the album\u2019s official release. ","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/26","ph_fname":"p13-241126-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/26\/p13-241126-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/26\/thumbs\/p13-241126-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Michael Turton","ar_views":"1109","ar_id":"2003827436","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-25","ar_head":"Notes from Central Taiwan:The emerging sellout argument","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Last month historian Stephen Wertheim of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published an opinion piece in the New York Times with suggestions for an \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Of course China and Taiwan received a mention. \u201cUnder p","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/25\/2003827436","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827436","ph_attr":"Photo: EPA-EFE","ph_cap":"President William Lai on Nov. 4 delivers a speech during a keel laying ceremony of an indigenous light frigate with air defense capabilities, in Kaohsiung.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/25","ph_fname":"p13-241125-302.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/25\/p13-241125-302.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/25\/thumbs\/p13-241125-302.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Han Cheung","ar_views":"898","ar_id":"2003827389","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-24","ar_head":"Taiwan in Time: Headhunting for believers","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Nov. 25 to Dec. 1The Dutch had a choice: join the indigenous Siraya of Sinkan Village (in today\u2019s Tainan) on a headhunting mission or risk losing them as believers. Missionaries George Candidus and Robert Junius relayed their request to the Dutch governor, emphasizing that if they aided the Sinkan, ","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/24\/2003827389","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827389","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons","ph_cap":"This 1643 painting shows Dutch missionary Robert Junius baptizing indigenous Formosans.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/24","ph_fname":"p13-241124-junius.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/24\/p13-241124-junius.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/24\/thumbs\/p13-241124-junius.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Courtney Donovan Smith \u77f3\u6771\u6587","ar_views":"1155","ar_id":"2003827347","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-23","ar_head":"Donovan\u2019s Deep Dives: The megatrend backdrops to current geopolitical turmoil","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The only geopolitical certainty is that massive change is coming. Three macro trends are only just starting to accelerate, forming a very disruptive background to an already unsettled future. One is that technological transformations exponentially more consequential and rapid than anything prior are","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/23\/2003827347","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827347","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"Recently launched Amazon artificial intelligence processors that aim to tackle Nvidia and the chips made by the other hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Google are shown in July at an Amazon lab in Austin, Texas.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/23","ph_fname":"P13-241123-309.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/23\/P13-241123-309.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/23\/thumbs\/P13-241123-309.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Tyler Cottenie","ar_views":"1732","ar_id":"2003827293","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-22","ar_head":"Alishan\u2019s lost railroads","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Anyone who has been to Alishan (\u963f\u91cc\u5c71) is familiar with the railroad there: one line comes up from Chiayi City past the sacred tree site, while another line goes up to the sunrise viewing platform at Zhushan (\u795d\u5c71). Of course, as a center of logging operations for over 60 years, Alishan did have more ra","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/22\/2003827293","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827293","ph_attr":"Photo: Tyler Cottenie","ph_cap":"The waterfall at the end of the Shihshan Branch Line.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/22","ph_fname":"p13-241122-Waterfall.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/p13-241122-Waterfall.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/thumbs\/p13-241122-Waterfall.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lindsey Bahr","ar_views":"670","ar_id":"2003827294","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-22","ar_head":"A luminous slice of Mumbai life","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The rhythms of bustling, working-class Mumbai are brought to vivid life in All We Imagine as Light. The stunning narrative debut of filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores the lives of three women in the city whose existence is mostly transit and work. Even that isn\u2019t always enough to get by and pay the re","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/22\/2003827294","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827294","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"Kani Kusruti in a scene from <i>All We Imagine As Light<\/i>.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/22","ph_fname":"p14-241122-317.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/p14-241122-317.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/thumbs\/p14-241122-317.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Holly Meyer","ar_views":"386","ar_id":"2003827295","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-22","ar_head":"From \u2018The Exorcist\u2019 to \u2018Heretic,\u2019 why holy horror can be a hit with moviegoers","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"In the new horror movie, Heretic, Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake their faith.What starts more as a religious studies lecture slowly morphs into a gory escape room for the two door-knocking members of The Chu","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/22\/2003827295","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827295","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"Hugh Grant in a scene from<i> Heretic<\/i>.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/22","ph_fname":"p14-241122-323.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/p14-241122-323.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/22\/thumbs\/p14-241122-323.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Hollie Younger ","ar_views":"449","ar_id":"2003827231","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-21","ar_head":"Restaurant review: Indus Chai: A gluten-free retreat steeped in Indian tea traditions","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Standing over a simmering pot of chai, Stella Ku\u2019s (\u53e4\u8a69\u7b60) gold bangles jingle as she crushes ginger roots and mixes freshly ground cardamom into individual saucepans. The tea leaves, handpicked from the misty mountains of Assam and Darjeeling, take 10 minutes for the perfect brew. Ku herself is from ","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/21\/2003827231","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827231","ph_attr":"Photo: Hollie Younger","ph_cap":"A pot of Masala Chai is poured into a mug at Indus Chai.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/21","ph_fname":"p13-241121-new14aaa.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/p13-241121-new14aaa.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/thumbs\/p13-241121-new14aaa.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Esther Addley","ar_views":"392","ar_id":"2003827232","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-21","ar_head":"Celebrities make \u2018manifest\u2019 appear as 2024 word of the year","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"\u201cManifest,\u201d meaning to dream or will something into existence, has been named this year\u2019s word by Cambridge Dictionary, after a surge of celebrity-inspired popularity on social media.Though far from a new coinage \u2014 as an adjective meaning \u201cclear\u201d or \u201cobvious,\u201d the word dates back in English to at le","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/21\/2003827232","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827232","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"Dua Lipa last month performs during the 39th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. The singer attributes her success to \u201cmanifesting,\u201d or the act of dreaming something into existence. ","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/21","ph_fname":"p13-241121-308.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/p13-241121-308.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/thumbs\/p13-241121-308.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By James Baron","ar_views":"459","ar_id":"2003827233","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-21","ar_head":"Book review: The wisdom of hindsight","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"For all the excellent works in English on Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, there have been few (if any) monographs dedicated to Taiwanese women as imperial subjects.  Studies on the colonial government\u2019s assimilation policy (doka) and, during World War II, its imperial subjectification efforts (","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/21\/2003827233","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827233","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"<i>Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule<\/i>, by Fang Yu Hu.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/21","ph_fname":"p14-241121-Wife Cover.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/p14-241121-Wife Cover.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/thumbs\/p14-241121-Wife Cover.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"59","ar_id":"2003827234","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-21","ar_head":"Lights, action, melodrama! Silent films get new reel at London haven","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The black and white silent movie flickered into life as the pianist started up with a dramatic flourish. Cue the latest exploits of daring master criminal \u201cThree-Fingered Kate.\u201dThe head of a gang behind a string of audacious robberies, Kate \u2014 who is missing the last two digits of her right hand \u2014 al","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/21\/2003827234","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827234","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters\r\n","ph_cap":"Clouds form behind the London Eye in London, Britain.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/21","ph_fname":"P14-241121-304.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/P14-241121-304.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/21\/thumbs\/P14-241121-304.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Luis Andres Henao\r\n","ar_views":"423","ar_id":"2003827176","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-20","ar_head":"Today he is a high school football player. Soon he\u2019ll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruit and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile.Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills \u2014","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/20\/2003827176","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827176","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"US-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, is on Nov. 9 presented with a <i>khata<\/i>, the Tibetan ceremonial scarves that symbolize auspiciousness, at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony, in Isanti, Minnesota.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/20","ph_fname":"P13-241120-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/20\/P13-241120-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/20\/thumbs\/P13-241120-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"AFP, HONG KONG","ar_views":"369","ar_id":"2003827177","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-20","ar_head":"Hong Kong: a turbulent road since handover","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Hong Kong has endured a turbulent history since being handed over from Britain to China 27 years ago.Here are some key dates: 1997: HANDOVER On July 1, at midnight, Hong Kong is returned to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years of British rule.The tiny territory has its own mini-constitution that gove","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/20\/2003827177","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827177","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"A supporter in July 2021 holds a placard with the photos of some of the 47 pro-democracy defendants outside a court in Hong Kong.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/20","ph_fname":"P13-241120-306.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/20\/P13-241120-306.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/20\/thumbs\/P13-241120-306.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Courtney Donovan Smith \u77f3\u6771\u6587","ar_views":"1167","ar_id":"2003827123","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-19","ar_head":"Donovan\u2019s Deep Dives: The wildly improbable Ko saga turns up dark secrets","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The entire saga involving the Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) and its Chairman Ko Wen-je (\u67ef\u6587\u54f2) continues to produce plot twists at such a rapid pace that fiction publishers would throw it out for being ridiculously improbable. This past week was particularly bizarre, but surprisingly the press has almos","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/19\/2003827123","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827123","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA\r\n","ph_cap":"Media personality Chu Mei-feng, who was the former spokesperson for the Chinese Unification Promotion Party, is pictured here in March 2018 at a protest at the legislature. Chu has accused Taiwan People\u2019s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je of sexual harassment.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/19","ph_fname":"P13-241119-602.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/19\/P13-241119-602.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/19\/thumbs\/P13-241119-602.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Jerry Brotton","ar_views":"470","ar_id":"2003827124","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-19","ar_head":"Lost your sense of direction? Turn off your phone and you\u2019ll soon reconnect","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"We\u2019ve lost direction and our brains are shrinking \u2014 at least, our hippocampi are. These seahorse-shaped parts of the brain measure about 5cm, sit just above both ears and drive our spatial awareness and orientation. London taxi drivers, famed for taking the Knowledge, a test that involves memorizing","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/19\/2003827124","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827124","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons","ph_cap":"Blue Marble composite images generated by NASA in 2001 and 2002.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/19","ph_fname":"p13-241119-BlueMarble.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/19\/p13-241119-BlueMarble.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/19\/thumbs\/p13-241119-BlueMarble.jpg"}}]