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Serbia: Belgrade's Trees Fall Victim to “Chain Saw Massacre”
Belgrade city authorities are in the process of cutting down some 400 plane trees that were planted on Belgrade's longest street in the 19th century. Sinisa Boljanovic reports on the ongoing protest against what is now known as the "Belgrade Chain Saw Massacre."...
Russia: Thoughts on March 8, Feminism
Thoughts on March 8 and feminism in Russia and Ukraine - at Poemless, Global Comment, and Sean's Russia Blog....
The Balkans: Ejup Ganić's Arrest
Updates on the arrest of Ejup Ganić in London on March 1: Amila Bosnae - here and here; Gray Falcon - here, here, and here; Greater Surbiton - here and here; Samaha - here; CAFÉ TURCO - here;...
Bulgaria: Delivery of Some Cancer Drugs Stopped?
European Union Law reports that “the Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has stopped the delivery of some drugs against cancer for children under 18 years”: “A very simple question arises: what sort of a European Union Member State is Bulgaria, really??? How is it possible to leave the children...
South Africa: inappropriate content in the classroom stage
Rochele Ardesher published a video taken during a South African elementary school class of what she calls inappropriate content where the teacher berates the students for improper bathroom usage....
Taiwan: Inequality in Baseball Game
Los Angeles Dodgers was invited to Taiwan to play with CPBL's best players this week. However, after the first game on March 12, media and baseball fans found that all the budget(2.8m TWD) for improving Tianmu Baseball Stadium was used only on Dodgers' side. Baseball blogger Kenmy argues that “the games...
Betelnut Equation
Expat Culture: John’s break from reality II
John continued to date the KTV girl, Hsiao Lo, for eight or nine months. They became kind of behind boyfriend and girlfriend in a strange way. It wasn't exactly love, but more circumstance – John taught English fifty hours a week so, if a girl phoned him up and made...
Taiwan jokes: What is a subway….
This little language miscommunication happened the first time my parents came to Taipei. My wife had never met my parents before - she had never met any white people over fifty before - and, having been brought up to respect her parents-in-law she had been shaking like a leaf before...
Taiwan lifestyle: We are not so weird anymore
The theme of how times have changed has many different angles. One of the them is how life here has become a quite a bit less 'them' and 'us' – For any new arrival who is suffering from being called foreigner every five minutes that is hard to belief but...
Taiwan Expat Culture: John’s Break from Reality I
I have already touched on the theme of how we lose touch with reality when we are here. All pretty obvious as we do the same in our own country when we go to university and we should know better. Anyway, one of the ways we do so...
Taiwan Culture Shock: As long as you been introduced…
This little story actually covers a couple of things.Firstly, you know everything is ok in Taiwan if you have been introduced – Remember when you first started teaching and it was hard, then one family would like you and they would introduce you to all their relatives. You were still...
Religion: Best way to remove the devil
I was down south once at some relative of the wife. It was the usual situation: a living room full of Taiwanese shouting at each other to get out of the way of the truck that was about to hit them. I was doing by best to zone...
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Ghosts and Angels on the Beautiful Island
When I woke up around nine that Sunday morning my cell phone showed that I had 33 missed calls. It rang again in my hand. It was the head teacher from the school I worked at. “We’re at the hospital.” She told me. “Jana was hit by a bus.” On...
Snorkeling, Rum, and Island Hopping: Five Days in Coron, Busuanga Island, Philippines
To escape the suffocating traffic and staccato of firecrackers that besiege Taiwan every Chinese New Year, several friends and I booked tickets on a budget carrier, Spirit of Manila, to the city of Coron on Busuanga Island in the Philippines for five days of snorkeling, island hopping, and rum drinking. ...
I was contacted today by Lidia Nyiri, a PR Consultant for TravelGrove.com. She asked me if I would write a blog post reviewing her company which, “helps users find cheap offers on airfares, hotel and car rentals, cruise deals and vacation packages”. She said the review didn’t have to be nice....
An Interview with Matt Gibson (aka Me) on My Several Worlds
Check out the full article here....
A Good ‘Ol Fashioned Boat Burning
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Bunk Magazine Issue 5 is out now
The first issue of Bunk Magazine was published by the Armory nearly 10 years ago, long before I arrived in Taiwan. Around the time I moved to Taiwan the last issue of Bunk, issue 4, was published. Bunk had a big influence on my decision to start Xpat Magazine. It...