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February 2010
臺灣之月 台湾之月 台湾の月 |
Published Issue: 2010 February
Published: 02/01/10
Taipei With Taiwan's transition from rural isolation to economic tiger, Taipei blossomed into a city of 2.63 million with more than 1 million scooters and 650,000 cars. It has, however, the cleanest air of any city in Greater China or Southeast Asia as well as a very low crime rate ...
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Happy New Year The Year of the Tiger - 2010Chinese New Year is going to be celebrated around the world starting on Saturday, February 13 - which is the New Year's Eve - and ending on Sunday the 28th with the Lantern Festival. This time of year is the most important in Chinese tradition. Lavish parties with family and friends will be held, red colour paper-cuts and couplets with themes of "happiness, wealth and longevity" will decorate windows and doors, and hong bao (red envelopes) will be given ...
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Lantern Festival Celebrations are very important in our lives. These are the times when we would like to share happiness with our family and friends, whether it's a birthday, a wedding anniversary or a graduation ...
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Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China and Taiwan. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: pinyin: zhèng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve, which this year falls on February 13, is known as Chúxī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve" ...
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Family Outing during Chinese New Year What makes places of interest special is that it caters to all age groups. With that said, please check with the attraction you plan to visit for the opening hour during the holidays, it can change very quickly. Some places may be closed due to Chinese New Year ...
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New Year Shopping Festival Every year, New Year Shopping brings millions of people to the streets of Taipei, thus it might as well be considered a festival, at least for foreigners and tourists in Taipei. Traditional New Year foods, Chinese herbal medicines, clothes, fabric and many other seasonal items are high on the shopping list. The traditional shopping areas in Taipei include : Dihua Street, Ningxia Street, Huayin Street, Taipei Metro Mall, the area behind Taipei Main Station, and for the first time, Binjiang Street. Opening hours for each street are listed below ...
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Hualien Distillery The Hualien Distillery is situated in Hualien, one of the last pure unspoilt areas in Taiwan which has escaped modern industrial pollution and embraces the beauty of the eastern mountains and oceans, the "Ilha Formosa", setting the scene for the distillery to draw natural clean water to make perfect drinks that preserve the true essence and purity of nature ...
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Changhua Changhua County is in the mid-western part of Taiwan with Bagua Mountains that forms the border between Changhua and Nantou Counties. Beautiful sceneries of hills, water and plains can be seen throughout the county. Bagua Mountain with the Great Buddha is the attraction not to be missed. Bird lovers will come in March each year to see tens of thousands of grey-faced buzzards fly across. The rich wildlife within the county is a real treasure to Taiwan ...
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Taichung Year 2010 is the Chinese Tiger year. Taichung Lantern Festival will use the Disney Cartoon figure "Tigger" to be the lantern in cooperation with Interaction Multimedia Technology. The festival will be held in Wenxin Forest Park. Look out for this fantastic event taking place in Taichung City ...
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Hsinchu Hsinchu, which lies 80 kilometers south of Taipei, has a population of 502,000 with an additional 100,000 commuters working at the Hsinchu Science Park. The park, which was founded in 1980, is one of the biggest and most modern in the world ...
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Tainan Tainan - the former capital of Taiwan - has long played an important role in the island's history. In 1624, the Dutch established Fort Zeelandia in Anping - the oldest part of the city ...
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Lighting up the Sky One of the most popular and anticipated events during the Lantern Festival in Taiwan is the Fireworks Festival in Yenshui, Tainan County. Under the motto 'Lanterns up North, Firecrackers down South' (bei tian deng, nan feng pao), the town of Yenshui will treat local and foreign visitors to a feast for the eyes and ears from Saturday, 27 to Sunday, 28 February ...
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Kaohsiung Kaohsiung - the second largest city in Taiwan - is situated in southern Taiwan. The population is 1.5 million with a total of 4 million in the environs. The city has made great efforts to green itself, a noble effort given that it has the highest concentration of motorcycles - 1.15 million - of any city on the island ...
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The 2010 Kaohsiung Lantern Festival : A Warm Welcome to the Year of the Tiger on the Seventh Day of the Lunar New Year The 2010 Kaohsiung Lantern Festival will take place from February 20th to March 7th, 2010 (the seventh through to the twentieth day of the first lunar month). Under sponsorship from the Kaohsiung city government, this festival will put the spotlight on Kaohsiung, notably the areas surrounding the Pier of Honor and the Lovers' River ...
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Van Gogh ExhibitionFrom December 11, 2009 until March 28, 2010 the National Museum of History in Taipei will be the venue of an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The 80 drawings and 16 paintings are all part of the permanent collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum in The Netherlands ...
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TAIWANTaiwan is situated off the southeastern coast of China. Xiamen in Fujian province, Mainland China, is the closest city across the Taiwan Straits. The climate is subtropical with a typhoon season from June to September. The typhoon Morakot hit the southern part of Taiwan in August 7 - 9, 2009, unleashing 3,000 millimeters of rainfall (the annual average for this part of Taiwan) ... |
