Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) The Pingtung County Government broke ground on the King Boat cultural museum Wednesday, which will be the first museum in Taiwan about a 300-year-old plague-expelling religious ritual involving specially built vessels.
Taipei, Nov. 5 (CNA) Pingtung County's public health bureau on Friday fined a local hospital for having mistakenly inoculated 88 people with a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine that was different from what the recipients had registered for.
Taipei, Aug. 7 (CNA) Offices and schools in Taian Township in Miaoli County and mountainous parts of Kaohsiung and Pingtung will be closed for a second straight day Sunday, after the areas were battered by heavy rain that led to road damage and traffic disruptions.
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The Taiwan Railways Administration has seen a bump in passenger numbers for its daily round-trip service on its South Link line since November, as many rail fans wanted to ride the diesel-powered trains before they are pulled from service on Dec. 23.
The daily service between Fangliao Station in Pingtung County and Taitung Station in Taitung County, which takes just over two hours each way, departs Fangliao before noon and makes the return trip at 4:15 p.m.
The service gained attention because it is the only one using nearly 50-year-old carriages that have never been fitted with air conditioning and because of the coastal and rural views it offers across southern Taiwan.
Pingtung opens arts festival celebrating seasonal gust
12/19/2020 07:48 PM
Photo courtesy of Pintung County government
Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) The second edition of the Luoshanfeng Arts Festival, which is coinciding with strong seasonal downslope winds in southern Taiwan, opened in Pingtung on Friday with improved facilities for visitors, according to the local government. The luoshanfeng (meaning downslope wind in Chinese) makes the people in the Hengchun Peninsula particularly tough, said Pingtung County Magistrate Pan Men-an (潘孟安) at the event s opening ceremony at Haikou Port in Checheng Township.
But while the dry northeasterly wind that blows down from the Central Mountain Range to the coast helps with Pingtung s onion production, it also deters visitors, Pan said.