Toastmasters Clubs can be found throughout Taiwan. Nicknamed the Rainy Port, Keelung is a major port city with ethnic and cultural diversity in northern Taiwan. Many people living in this port city believe that if they can prepare themselves with better communication skills in Mandarin, English, Taiwanese (Fukienese, 閩南語), and even Hakka (客家話), they are ...
A long time ago, a businessman remarried after his first wife died. However, the new wife disliked her stepchild and wanted to get rid of him. “What’s the best way to do it?” she pondered. “I can’t kill him, nor can I poison him to death, because people will find out.” Finally, she got an ...
Many Chinese women get lured to America by Mainland Chinese agents only to find that a promised “career” was actually sexual service. Deceived by job ads offering “$10,000 USD a month with board and travel,” those women thus attracted to America fall into the hands of human traffickers and are forced into prostitution by Chinese ...
There is a story from ancient China about Emperor Tang Wenzong, the 15th emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who had an exquisite pillow carved of precious white jade that he hid among his draperies. However, one day it disappeared. Emperor Tang was shocked, as his inner palace was very secure. Only his concubines could gain ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, Walter Duranty, covered up one of the worst genocides in modern history. The atrocity I’m referring to is the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 that was orchestrated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. It killed an estimated 7 to 10 million people. Walter Duranty is now viewed as ...
Iris Lu’s parents lived in the rural province of Yunnan. In the 1990s, her mother, Deng Cuiping, started practicing Falun Gong to help relieve stress and insomnia. This was at a time before the persecution began in China, and the parks were packed with people doing the exercises. Falun Gong, (also known as Falun Dafa) ...
As the world’s 22nd largest economy with a land area of approximately 14,400 square miles (36,000 km2), Taiwan is the world’s 39th largest island. It is about 245 miles (395 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles (145 km) across at its widest point, and has a coastline of 708 miles (1,139 km). There are many beautiful lighthouses in Taiwan. ...
There are many reasons why Chinese wear masks while in the U.S. — pollution is everywhere, as are airborne illnesses. But why is the mask-wearing trend primarily limited to East Asian people? Is there a valid reason to wear masks? Here are six of the most common reasons to answer the question: Why do the Chinese ...
Situated at the northernmost tip of Taiwan island, Fugui Cape (富貴角) was originally called “Dabin (打賓)” or “Dabian (打鞭),” and was described as “hoek” (small peninsula) by the Dutch in the 18th century. The name was then transliterated as “Fuji,” and was called “Fugui” by local people afterward. As one of the three most significant capes ...
Mainland China’s repeated infant milk powder food safety issues have given rise to the selling of fresh human breast milk, and even the existence of “professional nannies.” Even though fresh breast milk does not fall under the category of general food resources, selling breast milk is illegal. Selling fresh breast milk However, this has not ...
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