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A purveyor of fine beverages at the Shi-Lin Night market.

Nighthawks at the Night Market

It was 11:30 PM, a cold front had just blown into Taipei, and I was in bad need of a second quilt...

Taiwan Joshua Samuel Brown

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Book Review: Keeping Up With the War God by Steven Crook

Part travelogue, part history book, and part cultural exposé, Keeping Up With the War God is an ...

Taiwan Celeste Heiter

Dragons and Tigers

Title: Dragons and Tigers. A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia. Author: Barbara A. Weig...

Taiwan / Vietnam / Myanmar ThingsAsian Booklist

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Fact File: Asian Internet Top Domains

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Taiwan / Vietnam / Myanmar ThingsAsian

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Lunar New Year Traditions

HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2004 - Hongkongers will play mah jong but superstition prevents them from bett...

Taiwan / China AFP/Mark McCord

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Vignettes of of Taiwan - a book review

Vignettes of Taiwan Author: Joshua Samuel Brown Publisher: ThingsAsian Press &...

Taiwan Ernie Yap

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Lunar New Year celebrations across Asia

BEIJING, Jan 22, 2004 - Today Asia celebrates its most important holiday, the Lunar New Year, wit...

Taiwan / Vietnam / Indonesia AFP

Taiwan officially recognizes nine distinct indigenous groupings, a total of 400,000 people (about 2 percent of the entire population.) Twenty peoples of Austronesian extraction were living in Taiwan for centuries before the Chinese made any significant inroads in the island.

Photo of the Day Archive for March 2004

Photo of the Day Archive for March 2004

Taiwan Albert Wen

The National Palace Museum has a large collection of art and artifact from all of China's 6,000-year history. The museum houses more than 700,000 pieces of Chinese art treasure. The articles on display are rotated every 3 months.

Photo of the Day Archive for September 2006

Photo of the Day Archive for September 2006

Taiwan Albert Wen

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