September ‘69, Abbey Road in the can. A new start or just delaying the inevitable?

📉 Big cuts ahead: OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives projects global aid (ODA) could drop up to 17% in 2025—hitting the poorest countries hardest. Health, education & humanitarian sectors face steep declines. Coordinated action is urgently needed. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr46p36r

Happy Swiss National Day! ❤️🇨🇭- so many fond memories from living in that beautiful country 😎. Top of the list is that that’s where I met my wife!

Independent Scholar Maytapat Pararaman analyzes Taiwan’s approach to combating #ClimateChange in #GTB 10.14. Transnational collaboration and public-private partnerships are key to achieving #NationalResilience. 🌱Review the full article here: ow.ly/yyry50Wy17X

I was today day’s old when I realized Queen bassist John Deacon and Peleliu veteran Eugene Sledge are the same person. (Well, same actor!). 🤣

UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read reuters.com/world/un-repor…

In the heart of the country. #台灣

TSMC's quarterly sales hit a record $30 billion — contract chipmaker plans over 15 new fabs to meet still-growing AI demand | Tom's Hardware tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

🚨 Missed the webinar? Catch up here: youtu.be/p9Qsiwr3-tI Held 29 July, this global WHO/UNICEF event shared key findings from 107 countries & a live demo of the updated WASH in Health Care Facilities Country Progress Tracker. Explore more: washinhcf.org/country-progre…

I did not realize cassette walkmans were still a thing.

The day Taiwanese netizens were louder than CCP trolls | IPON ipontoday.com/louder-than-cc…

Hmmm. Imagine a world where the incentive for such a series didn’t exist. The source of that is?? bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 New from WHO & UNICEF: WASH in health care facilities progress now tracked in 107 countries! Watch the 30-min recorded webinar (available in 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸🇷🇺), explore the updated Country Progress Tracker & see what’s ahead at #WWWeek. 📩Read the newsletter: tinyurl.com/yc6peupk

The new CEO of Intel reportedly has deep ties to the Chinese Communists. U.S. companies who receive government grants should be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars and adhere to strict security regulations. The board of @Intel owes Congress an explanation.

Declare the pennies on your eyes! Sorry, Pete; today, on the 59th anniversary of the groundbreaking platter Revolver, you must make way. 🤣

The last month was a self-inflicted disaster for the DPP, and this column goes into some of the reasons why (there's more, but word count limits). The KMT can't celebrate, the recalls were in many ways as bad or worse for them, and that's my next column: taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

Greetings from a balmy, hazy Friday morning in Tainan's Anping District. This is where the Dutch landed 401 years ago in 1624, dragging Taiwan into four centuries of colonization. Coincidentally, that year the Dutch also established the colony of New Amsterdam in Manhattan.

I think this healed something inside me

Latest WASH news from WHO: tinyurl.com/bp8tdtyz WHO at #WorldWaterWeek 2025 – join in Stockholm or online 24-28 Aug for: - Bridging WASH leadership & finance - Align to Accelerate: core indicators - Climate-resilient WASH monitoring - New JMP data This & more! ⬇️