A data and communications job at a Buddhist temple in China paying 10,000 yuan (US$2,090) a month has been viewed more than 30 million times as the country grapples with high unemployment. The Fahua Temple located in Huzhou, Zhejiang, eastern China, posted a notice on its account for a "data sorting specialist" on the social media app WeChat earlier this.
Independent Legislator Freddy Lim (林昶佐) yesterday survived a recall election in Taipei’s fifth electoral district after the tally of votes in favor of the recall fell short of the required threshold.
With 235,024 people eligible to vote yesterday, Lim would have been ousted if one-quarter of them, or 58,756, had backed the recall motion and if more voters were in favor of the recall than against it.
In the end, 54,813 voters supported the recall initiative, or about 56 percent, while 43,340 opposed it, according to unofficial Taipei City Election Commission figures for all 218 polling stations.
Voter turnout was 41.93 percent, not
A SURVIVOR: Taipei City Election Commission statistics showed that 54,813 voters supported recalling Legislator Freddy Lim (about 56%), while 58,756 votes were needed/ Staff writer, with CNA
I adore buildings that have been ravaged by time, and I’m not the only one.
The greater part of Taiwan’s built environment is less than 50 years old, yet there’s no shortage of structures that look like they’re waiting for the wrecking ball. Tainan, the oldest of the country’s major cities, as well as its former capital, has several fascinating ruins.
Here are four of them.
<strong>THE DOCTOR’S ABODE</strong>
Less than 100m southeast of the Martial Temple (武廟) in Tainan’s Yanshui District (鹽水), there’s a walled plot about 2,700m2 (about 800 ping) in size. On it, largely obscured by banyan trees, stand
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