Lucky coin
Zihnan Temple management committee director Chuang Chiu-an holds a “mother coin” for the Year of the Ox at a news conference in Nantou County’s Jhushan Township yesterday. The Earth God temple plans to distribute the special coins, which are believed to attract wealth throughout the year, to worshipers before 11am on Friday, Chuang said.
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Fattening up Taiwan: the nation’s childhood obesity problem
Children from lower income and less educated areas are shorter and chubbier than their higher income counterparts
By Michael Turton / Contributing reporter
I’m entering my fourth decade here, but the changes in Taiwan I’ve experienced have largely been so positive that I can find little to be nostalgic about. I don’t miss the private phones that cost one New Taiwan dollar to use, the mad traffic or the constant queue jumping. But I do ponder my students and from time to time, wonder where the skinny ones all went to.