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Can you imagine what Taiwan looked like 50 years ago? Bob Ronald just celebrated his 50 years living in Taiwan, he shares here his first impressions when arrived to the island. You might be surprised as it might not be so far from one's more actual experience...

Daniel, who has experience both in Taiwan and on the mainland, offers a counterpoint to Mark's earlier article about how to make money teaching EFL in Taiwan. Daniel details what it takes to run a successful tutoring business as a westerner.

Taiwan has revised its high-school history textbooks to show that Taiwan is an independent country and not part of China, media reports said Monday.

The China Times said that on the education ministry's order, the title of the national history textbook for high-school - to be used after the winter vacation - has been changed from 'National History' to 'China History'.

In this textbook, terms like 'our country,' 'this country' and 'the mainland' have been changed to 'China' to indicate that Taiwan is not part of China, the daily said.

In this video, Benoit Vermander of Taipei Ricci Institute and Renlai monthly comments on the visit of PCR representative Chen Yunlin in Taiwan and the events that followed.

Lin Chiling is a superstar in Taiwan and China, or just China if you think Taiwan belongs to the mainland.

An interesting self criticism of medias in Taiwan made by a taiwanese journalist!

Foreign correspondent Richard Spencer soldiers on with blogging, despite disruptions to the internet in Asia following damage to overseas cables by an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan. Spencer believes the incident shows the importance of Taiwan to globalisation.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday proposed a legal amendment that English-language competency should be mandatory for all presidential aspirants.

Presidential hopefuls who fail to pass the intermediate level of General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) would be disqualified from running in the presidential election

According to a somewhat rumour-like posting on a message board, Taiwan may be looking at switching to Hanyu pinyin - at least officially. 50 comments in 24 hours at the Duck, "hot topic" doesn't cover it.