Business secrets of the Taiwanese

This article will reveal to you the secret techniques of Taiwanese business culture, secrets that have made Taiwan an roaring Asian tiger. If you apply these rules to your own SME or start-up, you will see the same magic growth results famous across the world.
1. Conform! Western start-ups spend a vast amount of time trying [...]

On Nathan Road

I crossed the dirtiest streets of Hong Kong, looking for three early nineties porn films (soft core). A seller on eBay had given me some pessimistic referrals, so I climbed stairs to illicit shops and flicked through endless sultry crossed legs.
Then, ducking through an alleyway door, I found the first one. A dyed-blonde saga of [...]

Born in an English village

I was born in an English village, on a brilliant summer’s morning. Our house was a stone cottage surrounded by yellow fields, with a log fire burning at night and birds whispering in the thatched roof. A river flowed nearby.
Forests and soft hills were my playground, and I grew up strong and joyful, exploring winding [...]

Hail to the Prince

A deserted street at night. It has been raining, the walls and pavement wet-black under the streetlights. We hear a scroll of parchment being untied and opened.
A pause. Then a clap of THUNDER booms out. The rain falls once more, suddenly furious. A voice clears its throat, then begins:
“All fall and sob, for the [...]

Election Night

Duane tried to get comfortable in the ugly school chair. They’d started late this time, and one of them, Marvin, was new. Well, they’d do their best, like always. “Alright, gentlemen, how are we going to go about this”?
Probably in bigger towns, there was a system. But Delphi was barely more than a village, with [...]