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Across Taiwan, his image and name are everywhere — on statues and street signs and at a lavish memorial hall in the capital. Chiang Kai-shek was long heralded as a national hero who worked to unify China and fought both the Japanese and the communists. ( read original story ...)

During his term as deputy mayor from Dec. 25, 2010 to June 30, 2014, Hsu served concurrently as chairman of New Taipei's urban renewal project screening committee and as deputy chairman of the city's urban planning committee. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s legislature has passed a new law that will review the legacy left by the former administration of the Chinese Nationalist Party. The history of authoritarian rule is to be "stripped of legitimacy." The "transitional justice" bill was passed by ... ( read original story ...)

A county in southern Taiwan has pledged to give its lonely traffic light men a girlfriend to cross the road with, and even propose to. Pingtung county police bureau have announced that they will introduce an additional female figure to pedestrian traffic ... ( read original story ...)

There are two stations in New Taipei City – Kuosheng and Chinshan and one ... Director of the Nuclear Safety Project with the Union of Concerned Scientists says Taiwan’s nuclear power stations use the same or similar technology used in the U.S ... ( read original story ...)

Tributes to Taiwan's former dictator Chiang Kai-shek will be removed across the island after lawmakers voted in favour of the mandatory axing of symbols of its authoritarian past. The so-called "transitional justice" bill, which was passed late Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Two artists explore the notion of space and self-awareness in ‘The Parallel Cosmos: Hsiao Chin & Fadjar Sidik’, an exhibition jointly organised by Art Agenda, S.E.A., and CANS @project ... technology in the Indonesian city of Bali, and its resulting ... ( read original story ...)

A professor in Taiwan claims to have witnessed the longest ever visible rainbow, clocking in at nearly nine hours, and plans to submit it for a world record. The rainbow lasted for eight hours and 58 minutes in the mountains around the Taiwanese capital of ... ( read original story ...)

On what will be the 50th anniversary of his assassination in 1968, down by the Riverside will also recall his most controversial speech, Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break Silence at the Riverside Church in New York City on April 4 1967-one year to the day ... ( read original story ...)

Vincent Callebaut Architectures' main concept is to rebuild them as inhabited bridges by building the new city over the old city ... Seoul's Yeouido Han River Park is also another eco-sustainable project of the architect. Vincent Callebaut runs his ... ( read original story ...)

schemata architects were challenged to design the blue bottle coffee cafe, which was supposed to serve as a connection between the city and the buildi ... the project offers a new ... forces traveled throughout taiwan for several weeks before teaming ... ( read original story ...)

New mixed-use commercial building makes waves in drawing global finance firms Mizuho Bank and Taipei Fubon Bank across the Harbour ... Hills and transforming New York’s Hudson Yards into the city’s most exciting new neighbourhood. ( read original story ...)

A screengrab of a rainbow that arched over Taiwan for a reported eight hours and 58 minutes. YouTube A rainbow arched over Taiwan for almost nine hours last week. If confirmed, it would be the world's longest-lasting rainbow. The previous record was set in ... ( read original story ...)

For Taiwan and much of East Asia, homosexuality has long been a taboo subject. In the influential 1988 novel Crystal Boys, directly translated from Mandarin as “sons of sin,” Pai Hsien-yung tells the story of growing up gay in 1970s Taipei: “As soon ... ( read original story ...)

Undersea fibre-optic cable is the backbone of data transmission and intercontinental communications--and China could cut Taiwan off from the outside world. Taiwan’s Achilles’ Heel in a Conflict with China Is Not What You Think Since September 2016 ... ( read original story ...)

One of the inspirations for his film is how Saskatoon is changing and how the present-day city differs from what he ... whose parents moved to Canada from Taiwan in the 1970s. His film is part of a CBC project called Keep Calm and Decolonize. ( read original story ...)