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Remembering the 2011 Japan earthquake

Flying Dutchman - March 14, 2021

Not the deadliest, but by far the costliest natural disaster in world history happened on March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the...

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Flooding in Valencia brings back typhoon memories of Taipei

Flying Dutchman - November 5, 2020

While I was watching the storm that hit Valencia yesterday from my balcony around midnight, images of the many typhoons I experienced in Taiwan...

Asian Politics

Singapore and Taiwan: No diplomatic relations, but military ties

Flying Dutchman - October 28, 2020

Though an exchange of trade missions between both countries occurred in 1969, Singapore never had diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (ROC), still...

Asian history

Wansei Back, a movie about Japanese born in Taiwan

Flying Dutchman - October 16, 2020

After the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894/95, by signing the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17th, 1895, China was forced to concede Taiwan to...

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The Comoros, an African backdoor to Europe

Flying Dutchman - July 6, 2020

The Comoros, both in political and geographical sense, face enormous challenges.

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