Business in Taiwan

This being notice of a late 2025 of Business Today, from Taiwan, as noticed at reference 1 and to be found at reference 3, from the snap above is taken.

There is also a fair sprinkling of stuff like that above.

Hard to be sure as there is very little English to be found, but the print version seems rather like our Economist. Lots of serious stuff at one end, lighter stuff at the other, this last including a lot of foodie pieces - some for what to them is foreign food.

There are some Latin letters and Arabic numbers to be found in the text and some English names to be found in advertisements and captions. But apart from that, very little English, much less than I was expecting from a business magazine. Rather more Caucasian faces to be seen - assuming that this is correct-speak. I did not notice any blacks.

Some advertisements for luxury goods, for example Richard Mille watches; a form of male jewellery which I have always found rather odd. In fact I don't wear any kind of jewellery at all, but thinking with my fingers, just hanging gold around your neck in the way, for example, of travelling people, is somehow more honest than pretending that the thing hanging around your wrist is useful.

A couple of political cartoons from Coco. But I have failed to track them down, other than to a part of Facebook to which I do not have access.

Google Images did rather better, although I am no nearing finding out from where the cartoon came, which is where I started. Maybe that needs the power of Gemini.

In any event, the cartoon looks to be more to do with debates about the defence budget in the Taiwan parliament, than having a pop at potus. The sort of debate that we ought to be having here in the UK, rather than making a spectacle of the Labour Party tearing itself apart.

Lots of mug shots of what I take to be Taiwanese business people. A lot more of this than you would find in the Economist. A scattering of very demure girlie pictures.

An advertisement for a company providing immigration services, presumably for people hoping to get themselves to the US. An advertisement for HSBC. Several pages of postage stamp sized advertisements, maybe a hundred or more to the page. Presumably the affordable end of advertising.

Around 160 pages altogether. Numbered backwards.

PS: population wise, rather more than half the size of the Ukraine. Around 20 million people, most of whom do not seem to want to be gobbled up by their big neighbour. Depressing how history repeats itself.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv6.blogspot.com/2026/02/bifana.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan.

Reference 3: https://www.businesstoday.com.tw/.

Reference 4: https://www.richardmille.com/.