By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNAPresident Tsai Ing-wen （蔡英文） yesterday hailed the Taipei International Travel Fair as symbolic of the nation’s reopening after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions last month.
Decades ago, Japanese colonists in Taiwan banned facial tattoos, decrying them as a form of mutilation. But now as activists and historians try to preserve Taiwan's fast disappearing aboriginal culture, the facial tattoo is getting respect.
Taipei, June 29 (CNA) The Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) has opposed granting the Siraya and other Pingpu tribes constitutionally-protected Indigenous status which entitles the 16 officially recognized Indigenous peoples in Taiwan to specific privileges.