Penghu County tops happiness index for Taiwan cities and counties
A survey released yesterday says Penghu County scored the highest this year in a happiness index, with high levels of life satisfaction. The survey, conducted by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News and NanShan Life Insurance, is based on the Better Life Index of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The index, which surveyed 22...Continue reading
Xbox One To Arrive in Taiwan 9/23
Xbox fans of Taiwan, rejoice! The long wait is almost over! For lo, Microsoft Taiwan has announced that the Xbox One will soon be available for us! Specifically, it will be hitting store shelves in just over a week, on September 23rd! Here in Taiwan, we have two different versions of the console to choose...Continue reading
The 10th Taiwan European Film Festival
Foreign film lovers, the 10th Taiwan European Film Festival (TEFF) will be lighting up silver screens across Taiwan between October 8 and November 9. The film festival will feature recent movies from countries in the European Union such as Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and more! There will be up to 450 screenings at 30...Continue reading
American Express says number of wealthy people in Taiwan increasing
Financial services corporation American Express says more than 110,000 people in Taiwan last year, held liquid assets of more than NT$30 million. American Express cited the 2014 World Wealth report compiled by France-based consulting company Capgemini and the Royal Bank of Canada as showing that the number surpassed 110,000 in 2013, pushing up its ranking...Continue reading
DJ Joey C in a Rubbish Bin
DJ Joey C thought he could surprise newscaster Eric Gau by hiding in an inverted rubbish bin. He thought wrong. Continue reading
National Taiwan University places 76th in 2014/2015 QS World University Rankings
National Taiwan University has moved up six spots to reach 76th in the latest world university rankings released by the British education network QS. NTU remained the only school from Taiwan to be listed among the top 100 in the 2014 to 2015 QS World University Rankings complied by QS. National Tsing Hua University...Continue reading
Taiwan Designs Win at Red Dot Communication Design Awards
A Taiwan design company has won several awards at this year’s Red Dot Communication Design Awards, including a “Best of the Best” title given only to the top designs. “Rice Cake,” the Best of the Best design by Proad Identity, features carps printed on the two sides of a box that holds “niangao” — sticky...Continue reading
Hou Hsiaohsien films to be screened at New York museum
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has been working with a New York museum to screen films by Taiwan director Hou Hsiaohsien, starting today. The Museum of the Moving Image in New York will screen 18 films directed by Hou, and five others that he either acted in, wrote the screenplay for, or produced. The international touring...Continue reading
Taipei Biennial 2014 opening at TFAM and around the city
Fans of modern and contemporary art should be excited to hear that the Taipei Biennial 2014 will begin this Saturday at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and throughout the city. The exhibition this year is curated by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, with the theme of “Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of...Continue reading
“Ice Poison” to represent Taiwan at next year’s Academy Awards
The Ministry of Culture has announced that Burmese-Taiwanese director Midi Z’s film “Ice Poison” will represent Taiwan to vie for Best Foreign Language Film at next year’s Academy Awards. The film, shot in Myanmar, charts the economic despair in the rural and developing parts of the South Asian country. It centers on a poor farmer...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s first Literature Award for Migrants wraps up
Listen Episode Description On this episode, we speak to the organizer of the the Literature Award for Migrants, Chang Cheng, about the competition he organized to help gain exposure for the literary abilities of Taiwan’s Southeast Asian population. The award, which wrapped up last month, invited literary submissions in Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Tagalog. During our...Continue reading
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in Taipei
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is set to visit Taiwan for the ninth time in October and will give two concerts in Taipei. Originally known as the “Imperial Music Choir”, the group performed only for the court of Alexander III of Russia. The orchestra will play at the National Concert Hall in Taipei Oct. 11th...Continue reading
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