A block-printed tiger by Tseng Hsueh-mei (曾雪梅) has won the Hsinchu County artist an excellence award and the piece is to be displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Tseng’s image features a “cute tiger” clinging to the trunk of a plum tree.
She said yesterday that the image symbolizes the hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will pass, allowing Taiwanese industries to thrive once more.
Magpies sitting on the tree’s branches and surrounding the tiger are chirping a happy song to bring to mind the Chinese idiom “xi shang mei shao” (喜上眉梢), meaning to be visibly overjoyed, she said.
The print presents
2021/05/24 20:57 Lai Hsiang-ling (left) Lai Hsiang-ling (left) (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A Taiwanese legislator on Monday (May 24) demanded transparency regarding the country’s low COVID-19 vaccination rate as well as its sluggish pace of vaccine purchases, UDN reported. Taiwan People s Party Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶) mentioned that at a virtual G20 summit on May 21, it was announced that the Digital Green Certificate would be launched in the EU in July to facilitate free and safe movement during the pandemic. The certificate will serve as either proof of vaccination, negative COVID test result, or recovery from the disease. UDN cited Lai as saying, “Taiwan, hailed as a country excelling in the prevention of COVID-19 for over a year, is now struggling to come up with enough vaccines for its people.”
Lawmakers have called on the National Security Bureau to investigate claims of pervasive Chinese influence among Aboriginal communities.
Legislators pointed to a surge in communist propaganda and Chinese-funded projects over the past few years, which they say are aimed at infiltrating and buying political influence among Aboriginal communities.
“China has for decades carried out wide-ranging ‘united front’ tactics and propaganda campaigns targeting Aborigines,” said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Ying (陳瑩), a member of the Puyuma community in Taitung County. “Now, they are influencing elections for local councilors and village chiefs, offering money for candidates to mount their campaigns, and to