Kaohsiung, Dec. 26 (CNA) Japanese ceramics artist Satoshi Kino will be taking legal action against Taiwanese sculptor Tsai Wen-hsyang (蔡文祥) for plagiarizing one of his artworks, members of Kino's family told CNA on Monday.
People yesterday flock to the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in the city’s Cianjhen District on the final day of the Creative Expo Taiwan. This year’s event, themed “Resonance Island,” was the first edition of the annual expo held outside Taipei. Featuring 500 domestic and foreign creative brands and intellectual property licensees, the 10-day expo attracted more than 500,000 visitors, the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs said.
Taiwan Golden Diamond Pineapples (Tainung No. 17) and related products are displayed at a promotion event in Kaohsiung yesterday, as the season’s first batch of frozen pineapple chunks was sent to Yokohama in Japan by sea freight. Frozen pineapples keep fresh for two years, Kaohsiung Bureau of Agriculture officials said.
The government has no plan to cancel the Taiwan Lantern Festival this year, despite an increase in the number of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday.
The festival is to be held in Kaohsiung from Feb. 15 to 28.
Last year, the government canceled the nation’s flagship tourism event, which was to be held in Hsinchu City, due to a cluster infection at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan Hospital.
“This year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival will proceed as scheduled,” Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told reporters at the ministry’s new year news conference.
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A woman was yesterday detained and a man released on bail as prosecutors investigate the cause of a building fire in Kaohsiung that claimed 46 lives and injured dozens on Thursday.
The fire in the Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building in Yancheng District (鹽埕) in the early hours of Thursday morning is the second-deadliest building fire in Taiwan, after a February 1995 blaze at Weierkang Club in Taichung killed 64 people.
At least 46 residents of the building in Kaohsiung, most of whom were elderly, died in the blaze, the latest tally showed.
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement that