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I was surfing the net the other day and saw an interesting video about the adoption process of an Amerasian in Korea. Rick Smolan, a photographer, was assigned to photograph the offspring of American GI’s in Asia, of which there were something like 40,000 at the time. The video is of him speaking [...]

The Real Taiwan website was started to offer a window on Taiwan to anyone that was interested. The original goal of the site was to be a community site with many authors and contributors. I am looking for people that would like to join me in sharing Taiwan with the world with [...]

The last few days I’ve been dealing with being hacked and trying to get things set up back to normal. Things are looking better, and should be really up to speed in the next few days. If you have a nice story or photographs and would like to be featured here, drop [...]

I have spent a good chunk of the last two days going through and fixing, destroying, and upgrading this site. I hope everyone like the changes. It is much easier on the eyes now. Officially, I will call it an online magazine. If you have any feedback or if you’d like [...]

There are going to be some major changes happening on this site in the next several weeks.
First, the Tainan Guide on this site is going to move to the Tainan Bulletin. If you click on several of the links now, you will be automatically directed to the Tainan Bulletin. This is [...]

Hi, I welcome any users to chat using the new Google feature that allows you to contact me if I am online, however, I have no interest in talking about Taiwanese prostitutes and where a good time can be had. I realize the content on the site can be a bit saucy at times, [...]

There is a new Tainan Bulletin out for those of you that live in Taiwan. It used to be a Yahoo! Group but it has been migrated to its own website. It’s looking good and has a lot of functions that weren’t there before,for example a directory for bars, pubs, and other establishments [...]

I started a new website called The Real Passport and hope you guys will give it a try. Basically you submit an article or Youtube video to it and then others can rate it up or down if they like it or not. There are plenty of categories to choose from. If [...]

If you look at the inside cover of the back page of the Winter Xpat magazine issue, you will see an advertisement for, you guessed it, TRT. If you know what the Chinese symbol means in modern Taiwanese Chinese I’ll treat you to a betelnut in Tainan. Here is what it looks like:

Hello to everyone. Thanks for stopping by this site. I’d like to announce that I have started a forum for musicians in Taiwan, music lovers from all over the world, and for people that want to have good conversations about life and share their experiences (especially the good stuff about Taiwan). I have [...]

Yeah, if you live in Taiwan you are going to get nailed with some rain for a while .. Drag.. the photo is updated hourly so check back in for updates… And check the news for school cancellations.

Typhoon Krosa is coming. It looks like we are going to get nailed with this one. If you work on Saturday, make sure to verify that they are open.

Typhoon WIPHA is here, and looks like is making a mess in northern Taiwan. Check here for more info.

This is old news by now, but I have seen some good write ups about the Taiwanese China airlines plane that burned in Okinawa Japan. First, from B@tTaiwan, a few pictures of a headline from MSN that originally titles the story as China airliner on fire at Japan airport to Taiwanese airliner on fire [...]

This is the latest shirt design ready to hit the press. We’re going to change the red “com” to a Chinese character but we can’t decide which one we should use.
Got any ideas? I’ll tell you what, if we choose your idea for a char., we’ll give you a free shirt. Hao bu hao?