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News Mayor Sam Adams' campaign promise of developing an "export trade strategy" takes him to Taiwan next week just as the signature-gathering campaign to recall him from office also takes flight. Last year, the then mayor-elect — in support of his "export trade strategy" — traveled to China. (Adams said then he also went to help China "in its efforts to become sustainable.") The China ...   More

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News Just a reminder that there's a noon deadline today to enter your caption suggestions for this photo above of Mayor Sam Adams in Taiwan. To enter, go to the comments section here at the original post announcing the contest. The winner gets a $25 gift certificate to Rovente Pizza. Meantime, the new photo below is from the Taiwan News, which says Adams is with Kaohsiung City Vice Major Li Yung-de ...   More

News U-Theatre, one of Taiwan's national cultural treasures, spends most of its time at a outpost near the top of a hill outside of Taipei—surrounded by wind and rock. The group reportedly trains together for up to 16-hours a day—they meditate and eat together too—creating art together in the form of dance, song, theater, drumming and martial arts. They are an intense and spiritual ...   More