What is a good English newspaper?

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Hi peeps
I am new to Taiwan. Teaching English. Finding my way, rather enjoying it so far as I have a supportive school.

Now call me old fashioned, but I like to read an actual paper printed newspaper every 2 or 3 days. Yes I know online is all the rage these days but…

In the convenience store near me I can only find Taipei Times - sadly I find there is something slightly “off” about that paper - I dunno, but I kinda feet grotty and down after reading it, as if I have forced myself to eat a slab of stale butter oO

Anyways what do people read? Any other solid English options? I cannot read Chinese sorry.

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I think that’s the last printed one. The other competing rags are all online only now.

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I buy the Taipei Times two or three times a week. Takes me about 5 mins to read. Miss the crossword puzzle.

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If you depend on written news, you’ll be missing even more. There is not really any good thorough English news source of any type in or about Taiwan.

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:rofl:

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Between the three traditional dailies published, there was barely the equivalent of a decent newspaper between them. All lacking … sadly. There have been times when things were somewhat better… but they never lasted. Nowadays, not so much…

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Yeah, be nice if they brought those back. You can subscribe to the NYTimes crossword. Like US$7 per month though.

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Does the Liberty Times (I think) still have the NY Times International edition insert on Mondays? Haven’t noticed for a while.

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That would be sweet!

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I am pretty sure it was United Daily with the NYT insert. I remember it being on a Tuesday or Thursday. I’ll check later today

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NYT International is printed locally, at a press in Tucheng. It’s available at most major bookstores, as is WSJ and FT.

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The insert that we were talking about is the NYT Weekly

Kinda like this…
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The International New York Times is not available in any bookstores or at airport.

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Huh, that’s unfortunate. When did that change? I used to pick it up at eslite, when it was still called the International Herald Tribune, back before I had a Kindle. (And of course as someone who loves my Kindle, I’m partly responsible for the demise of bookstores and printed newspapers.)

OP: sorry, finding good English-language news about Taiwan is tough anyway - and almost impossible to find on paper. For Taiwan news these days I think I learn most from the blogs of Lao Ren Cha and Michael Turton - Turton in particular will often have lots of good links.

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Airport no, but many bookstores. Check out the Eslite in Xinyi, or the bookstore near the movie theater at Breeze Center.

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Confirmed today, yes they have INYT, but usually a day old.