Editor's Pick, Entertainment

‘Fragile’ Reaches 20 Million YouTube Hits

Namewee (Wee Meng Chee), a singer from Malaysia, together with Kimberley Chen, a Taiwan-based Australian singer, released a new song Fragile (玻璃心) on YouTube on October 15, 2021. The video quickly accumulated more than 20 million viral views within 15 days and is listed among the top 20 most viewed videos on YouTube (the only ...

Helen London

Namewee singing.

Mysterious Keelung Islet in Taiwan

With a graceful parabolic contour, Keelung Islet was once a mysterious islet that looks like a charming whale standing out in the ocean. As one of the eight scenic spots of Keelung City in northern Taiwan, the islet is referred to as “Taiwan Dragon Ball.” It is because the islet seems to be a ball ...

Billy Shyu

Keelung Islet in northern Taiwan.

Beijing’s New Hypersonic Missile Circles the Globe

China conducted two tests of its DF-17 hypersonic missile in July and August, the Financial Times newspaper has reported, raising concerns in the United States about the growing military capabilities of its geopolitical rival. The newspaper reported that Beijing launched a rocket that employed a “fractional orbital bombardment” system to propel a nuclear-capable “hypersonic glide ...

Max Lu

Hypersonic missiles in a parade.

Lessons to Be Learned From Child Kidnapping in China

Child kidnapping is more rampant than it has ever been around the globe. Cases like the following one from China can help parents prepare and avoid something like this ever happening to them. Irresistible bait   A young woman dressed up neatly, as if she worked in a corporate office, stands in front of a primary school just before the closing bell rings.   Then, as ...

Hermann Rohr

Smiling young Chinese children at the school playground in Sichuan, China.

Harvard and Taiwan Create Harvard Taipei Academy for Chinese Learning

Founded in 1636, Harvard is recognized as the most respected university in the world and its summer study abroad program in the Chinese language will now be held in Taiwan in 2022 at the Harvard Taipei Academy, which National Taiwan University confirmed on October 12, 2021.   Pan Wenzhong, Taiwan’s Minister of Education, expressed his welcome and announced ...

Emma Lu

Harvard Taipei Academy.

Netflix’s South Korean Hit ‘Squid Game’ Pirated en Masse in China

For fans of films that involve action and survival, like the Hunger Games trilogy, the latest Netflix presentation Squid Game will be a delight. The survival game is about contestants who are in dire need of money agreeing to participate in a series of games to win a handsome cash prize. What they imagined to ...

Max Lu

Netflix's ‘Squid Game’ poster

Do You Know the Real Story Behind ‘The Sound of Music’?

A video of almost 200 people taking over Antwerp Train Station in Belgium in a carefully choreographed dance to the Do Re Mi song that Maria sings in The Sound of Music has reached over 1 million hits. While people, including myself, like to watch viral videos, this one seems to have struck an especially ...

Troy Oakes

A photo of Tracey Bell impersonating Julie Andrews' version of 'Maria' from 'The Sound of Music' with the Austrian Alps in the background.

COVID-19: Vaccines, Boosters, and the Oral Pill

COVID-19 — to be or not to be vaccinated is the question? Finding the right and informed information to answer this question has created a great deal of angst and much confusion among the general public.  We have collated all the information from medical experts around the world about the different brands of vaccines presently ...

Armin Auctor

Doctor holding a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine up.

Why Is the World Turning a Blind Eye to Forced Organ Harvesting in China?

For most of us, the state-sanctioned killing of prisoners of conscience in China for the sole purpose of forced organ harvesting would be a red line issue. Yet, it doesn’t even get the attention it deserves. Is that because the evidence of this crime is that flimsy? No, there’s more than enough evidence confirming that it ...

Rory Karsten

A Chinese surgeon harvesting an organ.

The Fascinating Manyueyuan National Forest Recreation Area in Taiwan

Manyueyuan (Full Moon Park 滿月圓) is one of the 18 fascinating national forest recreation areas in Taiwan. It is named after the round shape and calm appearance of the mountain opposite the recreation area. Covering an area of 1,573 hectares (3,888 acres) at altitudes ranging from 300 meters (984 feet) to 1,700 meters (5,577 feet) ...

Billy Shyu

The Chunu Waterfall in Manyueyuan National Forest Recreation Area in Taiwan.