2021/05/04 14:07 Rental demand surged over the past year. Rental demand surged over the past year. (Taiwan News photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s aggressive efforts to fight the coronavirus early paid off, as the country posted strong economic growth in 2020, with a significant increase in the number of Gold Card applications to work in Taiwan, subsequently boosting demand for apartment rentals. According to NDC statistics, a total of 2,147 applications for Gold Cards, a special work and residency permit for highly skilled foreign talent, were received between Feb. 8, 2018, and March 31, 2021. Of the applicants approved, 269 work in science and technology, 1,673 in economics, and 149 in education.
By Editor | January 20, 2021
President William McKinley, our nation’s 25th president, was assassinated July 4, 1891, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while he stood in a receiving line in the “Temple of Music” at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. My columns always deal with Fayette County connections, and there is a connection between this event and Vandalia resident Olivia Yoos Burtschi, Mary and Josephine’s mother. Remembered as historians and preservationists, Josephine and Mary were daughters of Joseph Burtschi and founders of the Vandalia Historical Society. Olivia was the daughter of Adam Yoos, an Effingham merchant whose store was a short distance from the railroad station.