In 2018, the 24-hour news machine whirred so viciously, jaw-dropping scandals vanished from the headlines like stray socks in a washing machine, hopelessly drowned by spin cycles of threats, tweets and tweeted threats.
Yesterday, we peeled behind the front pages to revisit semi-nomadic Himalayan yak herders, Taiwan’s high mountain timber poachers and the cross-Strait politics of “Crazy Rich Asians.”
As we head into 2019, here are six more of our top stories from Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific:
