With the chilly winter breeze subsiding, Taiwan is gaining favour with Thai tourists looking for short-haul affordable holidays. My recent trip to Taipei coincided with the launch of the "Taiwan The Lucky Land" campaign, which offers foreign visitors the chance to win NT$5,000 (5,470 baht) in coupons as pocket money until June 30.
Taipei, Nov. 26 (CNA) Chiayi County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang (翁章梁) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) declares victory in his reelection bid Saturday against his sole rival, former Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator-at-Large Wang Yu-min (王育敏).
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Many people think that during the height of pro-democracy student movements in the 1980s and 1990s, musicians played a part in the protests. However, the truth is, only a handful of musicians were willing to stand up for the cause at the time.
In an era in which one ethnic group dominated the cultural and entertainment propaganda machine and monopolized the right to expression in music, most musicians in Taiwan chose to cooperate with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government by self-censoring their ideology and works, distancing themselves as much as they could from the democratic movement that was taking place