For visitors taking public transportation, TaKaoBooks is about a five-minute walk from MRT Cultural Center Station (文化中心站). Mollie Used Books’ Kaohsiung branch is about a five-minute walk from the light rail’s Kaohsiung Exhibition Center Station (高雄展覽館站). Fuxing Used Bookstore is about a 10-minute walk from MRT Central Park Station (中央公園站).
An international education research conference will return to the city for the first time in 15 years, bringing scholars from Taiwan and overseas to National Sun Yat-sen University from Oct. 15 to 18.
The TERA Conference 2026 and WERA 2026 Focal Meeting is jointly organized by the Taiwan Education Research Association, the World Education Research Association and NSYSU.
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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker Lai Jui-lung (賴瑞隆) is one of four contenders seeking the DPP nomination, in what is shaping up to be a highly competitive Kaohsiung mayoral primary.
In 2002, during the relocation of the 1941 Imperial Crown-style building to accommodate the new underground station, the Red Carp sculpture was moved into storage for safekeeping. It’s remained out of public display for nearly 24 years as the sprawling infrastructure project progressed.
The United Daily News reported that Taichung’s Blue Line has not yet begun main civil construction, but its original budget of NT$161.5 billion is no longer sufficient. The Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Bureau estimates that the project may require nearly NT$100 billion more to complete the 11 underground stations.
A man claimed he drunkenly mistook a Kaohsiung police car for his ride. Officers let him leave, but reconsidered after his friends posted a video of the apparent prank.
