Health, Editor's Pick

Why Parents Are Right to Question Vaccinating Their Children Against COVID-19

The Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011-2020 (GVAP) was developed to realize the ambitions of the Decade of Vaccines — that all individuals and communities enjoy lives free from vaccine-preventable illnesses.  Following the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to cause illness, death, and economic havoc worldwide, vaccines were developed, and a mass vaccination program started in December ...

Katrina Hicks

Six vials of COVID-19 vaccine from different manufacturers.

Taiwan Celebrates Its National Day in Defiance of China’s Escalating Intimidation

Taiwan celebrated its 110th Double Tenth National Day in Taipei on October 10, 2021, amid China’s recent escalation of military coercion and verbal intimidation. Besides President Tsai Ing-wen’s National Day address, a grand parade and an array of performances were conducted at the plaza in front of the Presidential Office Building in central Taipei. Origin ...

Billy Shyu

Taiwan celebrates its National Day.

Afghan Women Protest Taliban With Colorful Photos of Traditional Dresses

The Taliban’s return to power has ignited widespread fear that Afghan women will be forced out of the professional and educational spaces they occupied before the American withdrawal. The latest worrying order from Taliban leadership decreed that female university students be separated from men and “observe hijab according to [the Taliban’s interpretation of] Sharia” law. In response ...

Raven Montmorency

Afghan women in traditional dress.

Chinese State’s Reply to UN Organ Harvesting Concerns Slammed

In mid-June, a joint correspondence issued by nine United Nations special rapporteurs and human rights working groups raised alarm over reports of forced organ harvesting in China. The UN human rights experts said they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged organ harvesting targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians, in ...

Rory Karsten

Surgeons performing organ harvesting.

Denmark’s Human Library: You Borrow a Person and Learn to Unjudge Them

When a library is mentioned, it brings up the image of a building with thousands of books and serious-faced staff ensuring an atmosphere of silence. That is how libraries are meant to function, in most parts of the world. However, Denmark’s Human Library is a totally different concept. People volunteering as ‘books’ in Denmark’s human ...

Jack Roberts

A man and woman sharing.

5 Examples of Reverse Thinking: Using Creative Ways to Find Solutions

Reverse thinking means solving a problem using an approach different from the traditional ones. Sometimes, difficult problems might be solved in a surprising way if reverse thinking is adopted. Reverse thinking means looking at the problem from the opposite way around. Some people advocate flipping the problem, looking at the negative, and reversing it to ...

Helen London

Doctors examining the human brain.

Rapper Namewee Posts 8 Sarcastic Tips for the Taliban That Anger China

Afghanistan has been hitting headlines since the Taliban took over. While most of the world is criticizing the U.S. for their removal of troops or the UN for their silence, one Malaysian rapper named Namewee trolled China with sarcastic tips for the Taliban on how to maintain stability. The rapper Namewee Namewee is a 38-year-old ...

Armin Auctor

Namewee album cover.

Computer Eye Fatigue? These Chinese Massage Techniques Will Help

Computer eye fatigue is the main type of eye fatigue, although long-distance driving, writing, and reading are other common culprits. You know computer eye fatigue is setting in when your eyes start to feel tired, burning, or itching, or when you catch yourself rubbing your eyes. Massage pressure points to help alleviate computer eye fatigue ...

Emma Lu

Blue light glasses on a laptop.

Interesting King Ming Chang Leisure Farm in Taiwan

King Ming Chang Leisure Farm (金明昌鹿園) is an interesting leisure farm at Maling Recreational Farm Area in northern Taiwan’s Keelung City. In addition to producing quality velvet antlers, wild bee honey, as well as organic pomelos and other fruits, it is also famous for conducting interesting DIY projects.  For more photos of this multifunctional farm, ...

Billy Shyu

Two women picking pomelos.