【Music】Maybe you might remember the concert called “New talents from Taiwan” in Dusseldorf, Germany. Here is a video report in Mandarin with some recorded scenes from the concert. The problem of that report is, that it only focuses on the violist and leaves out the great performance of the pianist.
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【Image of Taiwan】A scooter ride in Taichung to let you feel how it is to ride there.
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A scooter ride through the city of Taichung, Taiwan, with you in the driver seat.
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【Music】Report on the Burma concert in Kaohsiung by private blog “Letters from Taiwan”.
lettersfromtaiwan.blogspot.com
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【Art】”Having thought for many years about how to present the true spirit of Taiwanese lacquer ware, I found that using local materials was the best choice for showing the value and beauty of lacquer,” the designer, Liao Po-ching told the Central News Agency.
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A young designer collected driftwood by a river on a rainy day in September last year after Typhoon Morakot hit southern Taiwan. No one knew the artist’s intention then, but the mystery was revealed at an exhibition in Milan, Italy in April this year.
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【Music】The festival — called the Golden Melody Music Week — will be held for the first time beginning Saturday, ahead of the Golden Melody Award ceremony which will take place next Saturday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan –A music festival will be held this month to highlight the Golden Melody Awards — known as the Chinese-language Grammys, an official said Saturday at a press briefing in Taipei.
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【Environment】 Under the bureau’s plan, the new land will become part of the Kaohsiung Harbor free trade zone, and will be used exclusively to serve the manufacturing and processing of solar energy related products.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan –The Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau is on its way to purchasing a plot of reclaimed land from the Kaohsiung City government to establish a solar energy industrial district in the harbor’s free trade zone, the bureau’s director-general said Saturday.
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【Tourism】“We hope service on the railway will be resumed in time for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China next year,” said COA Minister Chen Wu-hsiung. At a ceremony held at the Alishan station in Chiayi County to mark the resumption of service on two branch sections of the forest railway, Chen described the typhoon damage as “God’s test.”
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TAIPEI, Taiwan –The government will do its best to fix all 41 sections of the Alishan (Mt. Ali) alpine railway that were damaged during Typhoon Morakot last year, and is hoping to resume full service on the line before the end of 2011, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said yesterday.
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【Society】When Esperanza reached Taiwan in 1963, she took on the name“Teh”which means“virtuous”in Chinese. At the age of 51 at the time, Esperanza hardly spoke any Mandarin, but the language barrier and the cultural differences could not stop the feisty and energetic sister from rolling up her sleeves and diving into work straight away.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan –For the 98-year-old Catholic sister, serving a mission in China has always been a dream of hers. But in her youth daydreaming of walking on the Great Wall or helping Chinese orphans, the thought of receiving one of the most prestigious awards — the Ohtli — offered by her government,…
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