Railway Tickets Selling Fast
Railway tickets for the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday are selling fast. The Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) says the peak-hour tickets for longer trips on all routes have already been sold out. TRA officials remind those who booked their tickets online to pay for them within 48 hours at post offices, convenience stores and railway...Continue reading
Night Market EasyCard Payment Plan Begins Trial
Easy cards just go a little bit easier. The Easy Card Corporation announced yesterday that The smart card system can now be used to pay for food in the Qingguang and the Ningxia Night Markets. The company is touting easy card use as both more convenient and more hygienic than handling cash. According to the...Continue reading
Young Siberian White Crane Living in Taiwan
A young Siberian white crane that accidentally migrated to a northern Taiwan wetland last December has captured the attention of people in Taiwan. The young white crane, about one year old, flew into the Chingshui Wetland in Jinshan, New Taipei on Dec. 13th. It was the first time in recent memory that a Siberian crane,...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: May Week 2
Taiwan This Week is ICRT’s weekly roundup of the top news stories from around the island. Tune in every Friday at 8:30pm as ICRT news is joined by expert commentators to break down the week’s biggest stories in Taiwan. This week host Keith Menconi sits down with ICRT’s Gavin Phipps, and our Kaohsiung correspondent Michael...Continue reading
CPR Training, Defibrillators Helped to Save Life: Airport
Taoyuan International Airport is reporting that CPR training and defibrillators helped to save the life of a a passanger last month. The company says that a 65-year-old passenger fainted while he was sitting in a chair at the boarding gate for a flight to Shanghai. It says the flight’s cabin crew head and a nurse,...Continue reading
Free Hugs Going Around Taipei
Did you know that hugs are good for your health? And these young people are going around the Taipei Main Station to give away hugs! They are from Zhong-yuan University and today is the first day of their meeting the challenge of hugging strangers. Given how unaccustomed local people are to hugs, this really takes...Continue reading
Japanese Actor to Launch Photo Exhibition Tour in Taiwan
Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase is set to launch a photo exhibition tour in Taiwan later this week. Nagase says that he developed a close affinity for Taiwan after playing a role in the Taiwanese baseball film “Kano … and his new exhibition will feature images he took around the island. He says the 111 photographs...Continue reading
Organic Farms Available for Rent in Shuangxi
Those who are interested in a taste of farm life should head out to New Taipei’s Shuangxi District, where urban residents can get their hands dirty growing organic produce. Shuangxi District officials says eight qualified organic farmers in the area have set up 5 to 6 hectares of land for rent, where city-dwellers can grow...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: May Week 1
Taiwan This Week is ICRT’s weekly roundup of the top news stories from around the island. Tune in every Friday at 8:30pm as ICRT news is joined by expert commentators to break down the week’s biggest stories in Taiwan. This week host Keith Menconi sits down with Economist correspondent Jane Rickards, and senior advisor for...Continue reading
Kaohsiung American School Introduces New Campus
The Kaohsiung American School cut the ribbon inaugurating their brand-new campus this afternoon, the culmination of a vision that stretches back to 1989 when the first incarnation of KAS operated out of a few apartments near the city’s Cheng Gong Hospital. Today, the school has a staff of nearly 100 and will soon be filled...Continue reading
Far Eastern Plaza Hotel Sets Roll Cake World Record
Shangri-La’s Far Eastern Plaza Hotel says that Taipei has beaten the world record for the longest roll cake. The Guiness Book of World Records has officially measured the 269-meter-long taro and pineapple roll cake The hotel’s pastry team and 35 students from Kai Ping Culinary School reportedly deliberated for more than a year on how...Continue reading
SpringWave Sunset to Kick Off in Taipei
Taiwan’s first all-day electronic music festival is set to kick off in Taipei this coming weekend, with major DJs from Taiwan and around the world set to spin. Artists scheduled to perform include American electro house musician Steve Aoki, hardstyle and Melbourne bounce group VINAI, and English trance and progressive DJ Andy Moor. From Taiwan,...Continue reading
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