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Second-highest-ranking Czech official ends six-day Taiwan visit

Flying Dutchman - September 6, 2020

From August 30th to September 4th, 2020 a 89-member delegation from the Czech Republic, headed by Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil, which also included...

Asian history

25 years ago, demolition of Japanese cultural remain begins

Flying Dutchman - August 22, 2020

On August 15th, 1995, 50 years after Japan´s unconditional surrender in World War II and the end of its 35-year rule in Korea, the...

Features

Multicultural forensic anthropology

Flying Dutchman - August 13, 2020

During the last years that I spent in Taiwan before coming back to Spain temporarily in early 2018, my Taiwanese girlfriend and I almost...

Culture

A different type of stress

Flying Dutchman - August 11, 2020

Those who have worked in Asia are aware of the fact that reality there is much more complex than snorkeling in Thailand, shopping in...

Asian history

The ephemeral Treaty of Sèvres

Flying Dutchman - August 10, 2020

After more than fifteen months of preparations, on August 10th, 1920 the short-lived Treaty of Sèvres was signed in the Paris suburb of Sèvres...

Asian history

Taiwan´s imperial subjects still speak Japanese

Flying Dutchman - July 28, 2020

Many of the elderly that were educated under Nippon’s colonial rule still are fluent in Japanese and happy to use it among their fellows.

Culture

21st century Chinese food in Taiwan

Flying Dutchman - July 15, 2020

Due to the influx of people from all over China in 1949, Taiwan became a heaven for lovers of very diverse Chinese food.

Asian history

The Korean War saved the Chinese Generalissimo

Flying Dutchman - June 28, 2020

Although sworn enemies of Taiwan, North Korea and China involuntarily contributed to Taiwan not falling to Communism.

Features

55 Days in Peking, a historical epic filmed in Spain

Flying Dutchman - June 22, 2020

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American movie starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven. It dramatizes the siege of the Legation...

Asian Politics

Aung San Suu Kyi, “The Lady” from Burma

Flying Dutchman - June 19, 2020

Her family background predestined Aung San Suu Kyi to become a political leader in her native Burma.

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