5+ hour, 40+ min ago  (253+ words) By Dr. Chung-Liang Shih, Minister of Health and Welfare, Taiwan However, Taiwan continues to be excluded from full participation in the World Health Organization and its related mechanisms. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution 25. 1 neither…...

16+ hour, 37+ min ago  (677+ words) A dazzling Two-Spirit cellist with deep connections to Vancouver has died in a car crash in Northern Alberta. UBC-educated composer and performer Cris Derksen, 45, was driving home from her father's funeral when the collision occurred. Derksen's wife, Tuscaroran and Scottish…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (690+ words) My repertoire as a bilingual poet explores the space in-between languages'that liminality'particularly between Vietnamese, which is my mother tongue, and English," L" tells Pancouver by phone. L" will lead a workshop on asemic writing at 2 p. m. on Sunday (May 17) at the…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (451+ words) Surrey Civic Plaza will be cooking this weekend with the sounds of contemporary Panjabi music. The 5 X Blockparty on Saturday (May 16) will feature several performers, including JUNO-nominated B. C. artists Chani Nattan and Inderpal Moga. The pair performed at the 2025 JUNOs in…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (947+ words) Imagine two identical spoons. One is hand-wrought from silver by a skilled metalworker. The other, a base-metal facsimile, was mass-produced by a machine. Which would you value more? Most of us would say the handmade spoon. This is in part…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1738+ words) Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho once said that writing books was a way for him to build bridges between distinct cultures. "When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories," he said. The…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (298+ words) Co-produced by Noble Films and the National Film Board of Canada, Saigon Story explores the impact of this public execution more than 50 years later on two families, one in Vietnam and the other in North America. In addition, the film…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (956+ words) This commentary is in response to the recent pushback against the Richmond School District's decision to remove ribbons from its track and field event. Critics of the new policy say that this will "coddle" children against failure and the "reality…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (514+ words) B. C. cultural arts strategist Nina Buddhdev has cooked up an aural surprise for Mother's Day. Buddhdev, founder of the Bandish Network, has curated an intimate evening of poetic verse and uplifting music featuring three performers, including her talented tabla- and sarod-playing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (926+ words) Imagine trying to tell the story of a nation in an 80-minute dance performance. That's what the National Taiwan University of Sport (NTUS) Dance Company sets out to do in We Are Taiwan, which will be performed at the Gateway…...