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2021/05/10 10:36 Scene of the fatal accident. (Photo by reader) Scene of the fatal accident. (Photo by reader) Update: 05/10 11:30 a.m. The pedestrian who perished when she was struck by a train has been identified as an 86-year-old surnamed Chen (陳), reported Liberty Times. Her son said she had told him she was going to her garden to pick ripe vegetables. When he noticed she had not returned for a long period of time, he rode his scooter to check the garden, but she was nowhere to be seen. He suspects that she was killed while crossing the railroad tracks to reach the garden. ....
Lively night markets and a fascinating hot-spring culture are among Taipei’s claims to fame. Add in a distinctive skyline and majestic monuments, and you have the makings of a wonderful visit. ....
How Taiwan Stole My Heart Apr.16.2021 Taiwan or indeed anywhere in Asia was not on my travel radar when my son and his girlfriend, a native of Taiwan, visited me in Arizona for Christmas a few years back. Even though I had done a fair amount of international traveling by then, Asia was still just a dream. My son, on the other hand, was in the midst of planning his first trip to Asia. Knowing that he intended to accompany his girlfriend on a trip to her home country that spring, I had included a Taiwan guidebook and a Mandarin phrasebook in his gifts that Christmas. ....
Taiwan Business TOPICS If you have never been to a hot spring, the time is surely right for you to take a stress-busting hot-spring vacation in “the Heart of Asia.” Thanks to encouraging news from scientists working on coronavirus vaccines, people are once again daring to hope that international leisure travel can resume within months. When the door is finally unlocked, all who found 2020 to be an unusually trying year, and who wish to refresh themselves in one of Taiwan’s marvelous geothermal resorts, are guaranteed a welcome of exceptional warmth. Taiwan’s hot springs, long known to and enjoyed by the island’s Austronesian indigenous inhabitants, have been a tourist lure since the last decade of the 19th century. ....
Cor Willems, Father of polio children in Taiwan, passes away at 84 12/10/2020 11:15 PM Father Cor Willems (center). Photo courtesy of Yilan County Government Taipei, Dec. 10 (CNA) Dutch priest Cor Willems, who is better known in Taiwan as father of polio children after caring for thousands of children affected by the disease during his time in the country, passed away in his native Netherlands aged 84 on Dec. 7, according to the Beunen Foundation in Taipei. Born in 1936, Willems came to Taiwan as a missionary at the age of 27. At that time, polio was widespread as the country had a relatively undeveloped health care system, with many children receiving poor healthcare and education. Willems, his fellow Dutch priest Gerard Beunen and others established Wen-Sheng Rehabilitation Center in Jiaoxi, Yilan in 1971. Equipped with hydrotherapy and rehabilitation facilities, the center cared for thousands of children suffering from polio over the years. ....