Browsing: Pingtung

Many visitors to Thailand are sure to visit the famous Mae Klong Railway Market to see the vendors hurriedly collect their wares from the tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train. But did you know that Pingtung used to have a similar market? Historian Chiu Tsai-yen and Taiwan Film Culture Company teamed up to document this page in Taiwan’s history.

Mudan Junior High School is classified by the Ministry of Education as an extremely remote school. Its previous teacher dormitory had been in use for more than 50 years before it was closed in 2020 because of aging buildings and outdated facilities.

The same dataset showed that several other parts of Taiwan were also shrinking. Kaohsiung was listed at 2,713,913, down 0.32 percent, while Tainan was listed at 1,849,281, down 0.25 percent.

Jhutian Township (竹田鄉) in Pingtung County (屏東縣) offers a relaxed half-day route for visitors looking for Hakka food, historic architecture, and slow travel without packing too much into one itinerary.

The Pingtung County Government said the project is intended to ease traffic through central Fangliao, where heavy holiday traffic, frequent traffic lights, and local congestion have long slowed vehicles moving through southern Pingtung.

Public Health Bureau Director Chang Hsiu-chun (張秀君) said mosquitoes can breed in as little as 0.5 centimeters of standing water.

The Highway Bureau said plans call for the expressway to run about 22.6 kilometers from the Zuoying High Speed Rail Station (高鐵左營站) area, passing National Freeways No. 7 and No. 10 before crossing the Kaoping River and connecting with National Freeway No. 3. The four-lane route is planned to include three system interchanges and five local ramps.

The planned extension would run 26.2 kilometers south from Zuoying Station through Kaohsiung and into Liukuaicuo (六塊厝) in Pingtung. Most of the route would be built using shield tunneling, with other sections using cut-and-cover tunnels and elevated structures.

One coffee grower in Majia Township (瑪家鄉), a five-time Pingtung coffee evaluation champion, uses drying grounds located on the Hengchun Peninsula. They’ve adapted a traditional local drying method that uses the strong seasonal luoshanfeng, or downslope winds to turn the cherries into coffee beans.

County figures show donated and sponsored car and bus services had handled more than 103,000 passenger trips for this rural area of Pingtung as of the end of January this year.