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It wasn’t love at first feel with Taipei City for me

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date June 3, 2020
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Luckily, in Taipei many of these buildings are now gone.

Although nowadays it’s a very livable city, Taipei in the 1980s was a pretty messy place to live.

Tags Asia, Berlin, Formosa, Garbage Island, MRT, Peking, Pollution, Recycling, Taipei, Taiwan

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The bombing of Taihoku, capital of Japanese Taiwan

Post author By Flying Dutchman
Post date May 31, 2020
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The Japanese Governor General’s Office, now the Presidential Palace, was heavily damaged in 1945.

For decades, the air raid on then Japanese-controlled Taipei in May 1945 was an ignored chapter of World War II in Asia.

Tags Air raid, Asia, Battle of Okinawa, Chiang Kai-shek, Donald Trump, Hsinchu, Japan, Japanese Taiwan, Lee teng-hui, Mao Tse-tung, Nippon, Pacific War, Pearl Harbor, Subic Bay, Taihoku, Taipei, Taiwan, Tsai Ying-wen

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In memoriam Lee Kuan Yew

Singapore‘s Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) was the father of modern Singapore.

This is a translated and updated version of an obituary authored by me, published in the German weekly Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung on the 4th of April 2015.

Tags Asia, British Empire, China, Democracy, Germany, Lee Kuan Yew, Malaysia, Nanny state, Singapore, Taiwan