This year’s theme, “Holding the land, returning to our roots,” reflects the community’s efforts to rebuild after the 2009 disaster while reconnecting with Taivoan traditions. Organizers say the event will include reenactments of traditional rituals, an environmental theater performance based on residents’ own life stories, concerts, and a local market.
Chen has a backstory that would work well for a film. At 13, he left Taiwan for Vienna. His parents stayed behind as he entered a rigorous training system—the kind few young musicians today would be expected to endure. “My parents basically had no idea what I was doing,” Chen said. “In the first ten years, I only made two phone calls a year. Letters back and forth would take months,” he recalled.
The department said it would continue reviewing medical records related to treatments such as body sculpting, laser procedures, and Botox injections. Officials said they are checking whether the clinics collected advance payments, charged more than legally permitted, or created unauthorized fee items.
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The departed Kaohsiung officer was known for twice surviving helicopter crashes while serving in the airborne police unit, now part of the National Airborne Service Corps. In February 2005, he and three others survived after a Dolphin helicopter crashed into the sea off Taichung Port during a rescue training exercise. In January 2008, he was again among the survivors when another helicopter crashed during a mountain rescue mission after its tail rotor struck the ground during landing.
Hotels themselves propose the registered maximum price when submitting pricing for record. The local authority reviews the submission for formality and compliance, but does not set or “approve” an arbitrary cap based on economic fairness. Authorities may reject filings for procedural issues, but they do not set price levels based on “market fairness.”
Hsu said the problem was being driven by easy access to food and by exposed garbage. She argued that while the city has launched rodent-control efforts in shopping districts and traditional markets, parks risk becoming a neglected gap in those measures. She urged the city government to add parks to its priority pest-control areas, improve trash collection and management at hotspots, and consider adopting covered garbage containers similar to those used in other cities to reduce food access for rodents.
By Eryk Michael Smith / Staff KAOHSIUNG — With his second term nearing its end,…
