Browsing: Chiayi

Chiayi County’s first standalone coffee festival runs Oct. 24–26 at Suantou Sugar Factory, bringing together 30 award-winning estates and international coffee professionals.

Chiayi’s Pooh-themed light exhibition ended Oct. 11 with a city-reported record of 1.53 million visits over 17 days.

Yuanchun Oil Factory, located in Meishan Township, is now accepting returns for products made between December 2025 and July 2026, including bottles that have already been opened.

Both camp groups will gather Aug. 16 at the Asia Drone AI Innovation Application R&D Center (亞洲無人機AI創新應用研發中心) in Puzi City (朴子市) for a final competition and presentation day.

The county’s dementia care network includes 30 community service centers, 28 day-care centers, 97 community health service sites, three care coordination centers, one designated care center, and one group home.

The Xinflow Surfing Park (芯浪滑板衝浪水公園), will feature what the company describes as Taiwan’s first urban surf-skate attraction using wave-simulation technology.

Officials said the red-and-white stop area and the red octagonal “stop and proceed” marking both require drivers to bring their vehicle to a complete stop, check that the intersection is safe, and only then continue. Simply slowing down is not enough, the department said.

Chiayi City Councilor Wang Hao (王浩) said site visits showed that some of the “new” spaces were not so much “born” as renamed. In several areas, he said, cars had already been parking along the roadside before sidewalk improvement projects or line-marking work turned the same curbside areas into official parking spaces.

The job is not easy to reach. Paiyun Lodge is accessible only by hiking about 8.5 kilometers from the trailhead, with no vehicle access available. The notice said applicants must be able to handle high-altitude conditions and “endure loneliness.”

One current exhibition, running through May 10, 2026, explores how East Asia was represented in historical maps and images from the 14th to the 19th centuries, offering visitors a fascinating look at how the region understood the wider world.