Social Trends

• Year 2006
  • Spas offering a refuge for stressed-out career women (April 10)
  • More people learning art of traditional talismans (April 10)
  • Taiwanese buying into new coffee lifestyle (April 7)
  • Taiwan found having over a million "Lonely hearts" (March 29)
  • Underworld Finance (March 1)
  • It Nearly Came Out in the Wash (March 1)
  • The Quest for Beauty (March 1)
  • A Divine Glow (March 1)
  • Sea burials offer families a serene alternative (February 24)
  • Going to the Dogs (February)

• Year 2005
  • Taiwan joins exclusive tall-buildings club (December 23)
  • Seller beware: Consumer clout making presence felt in Taiwan (December 23)
  • Multilevel sales biz on the rise (December 16)
  • A Wallflower in the Wind (November 1)
  • The Glass Bead Game (October 1)

• Year 2004
  • Collecting Bygone Sounds -- Lin Pen-po's Gramophones (November)
  • Taiwanese learning that life is more than making a living (January 16)
  • Consumers judge hippest products of 2003 (January 9)
  • Tsoping -- Taiwan's hottest ice treat (January 9)

• Year 2003
  • Looking at boys and their toys (July 13)
  • Art for the Book (July 1)
  • Taiwan's pop audience finds new alternative (June 20)
  • Facial threading popular once again (June 13)