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A privately backed NT$18.8 billion renewal project beside Zuoying’s rail hub has broken ground, with offices, housing, a hotel and public facilities planned across three towers.

By KHT Staff. Images via The Global Filipino Magazine. KAOHSIUNG — A Filipino educator who arrived in Chiayi City in 1999 as the first teacher from the Philippines hired by her school now leads its academic programs while supporting teachers and Filipino community activities across southern Taiwan. Ana Liza Desuasido Garcia was 28 when she joined Shao Ding Dang and ELITE Language Institute after placing first in a recruitment examination for educators interested in working at a Montessori school in Taiwan. Her career was recently documented in a profile by The Global Filipino Magazine, which interviewed Garcia about her work…

Kaohsiung plans to open the Niaosong–Weiwuying section of the MRT Yellow Line in 2032, while completion of the full 22.91-kilometer network remains targeted for 2034.

A new playground in Renwu District turns space beneath the high-speed rail tracks into a recreation area for children, cyclists and nearby residents.

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an and DPP Taipei candidate Shen Po-yang traveled to Kaohsiung on the same day, helping their parties turn the city’s mayoral race into a contest with national visibility.

A preferred development team has been chosen for a NT$7.2 billion project beside R17 World Games Station, bringing planned housing, offices and childcare closer to Kaohsiung’s growing semiconductor corridor.

KMT mayoral candidate Ko Chih-en has proposed an outdoor music festival at Tianliao Moon World, although details including its scale, cost and transportation arrangements have not been developed.

A woman was sentenced to 17 years and eight months after customs officers found more than 4 kilograms of heroin in her luggage at Kaohsiung International Airport.

The inner section of Zuoying’s South Gate Roundabout will close Sept. 23, while its outer lanes remain open during work to convert the junction into a signalized intersection.

Kaohsiung Port could gain 508 hectares of new land under a reclamation project lasting from 2029 to 2059. The plan would absorb construction and dredging material but must first pass a full environmental review.