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A Home away from Home

The best service is service that’s there right when you need it,” says Shen. (photo by Kent Chuang)

Come Visit Taiwan!

Come visit Taiwan! Experience its beauty first hand (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Gala @ 23:59

The 2019 Golden Pin Design Awards, themed “Gala @ 23:59,” featured ideas about and responses to the topics of sustainability and the end of the world. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Journey of Memories

The Chianan Irrigation System, built in the 1920s, transformed the Chianan Plain into Taiwan’s granary. (photo by Kent Chuang)

Static Movies

Dust in the Wind (1986) (photo by Liu Chen-hsiang)

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Around Taiwan

When it comes to service, the British emphasize elegance, while the Japanese focus on meticulousness, but both tend to generate a sense of aloofness. But in Taiwan, this little Pacific island off the coast of East Asia, friendliness does not need to be “unzipped,” and personable hospital ...more

Global Outlook

Towards a Resilient Homeland

Meizhou’s Volunteer Disaster Response Team

We all know how superhero movies work: Superman, Spider-Man, Thor and the rest use their superpowers to fly through the air or bore through the earth to rescue ordinary mortals. But superheroes don’t exist. In the real world, the day-to-day efforts of regular joes—utility maintenanc ...more

Global Outlook

Yang 2020

A Son of Taiwanese Immigrants Runs for US President

Dr. Andrew Yang, the first person of Taiwanese heritage to seek the Democratic Party nomination for US president, is the son of immigrants from Taiwan. Yang has a background in law and the tech industry. What ideals for social transformation is he bringing to American politics? ...more

Cultural Trends

Spring in Grand Courtyard

The Renovation of a Historic Building

Good things spring from altruistic deeds. Kuo Su-jen, chairwoman of both Rich Development Co. and the Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation, has devoted herself passionately to the renovation of old houses, in order to renew their faded splendor. It was a new construction project that unexpectedly led Kuo to unde ...more

Around Taiwan

Journey of Memories

Cycling the Chianan Plain

Cycling through the Chianan Plain along Taiwan’s oldest highway—Provincial Highway 1—the places we pass are bastions of prosperity pioneered by our forebears: irrigation reservoirs, cattle markets, bustling districts around train stations…. This journey follows the cent ...more

Entrepreneurship

Straddling Fiction and Reality

Jack Hsu’s Immersive Entertainment

Jack Hsu is always busy. Still just 28 years old, with hair combed back on top and cut short on the sides, a pair of round, Hsu-Chih-mo-style glasses on his nose, he doesn’t carry himself in the tentative way of so many people of his age. He has a quick mind, a well-developed perspective on fi ...more

Global Outlook

Waste Reduction by Design

Building the Circular Economy in Taiwan

In 2016 The Wall Street Journal praised the Taiwanese as “the world’s geniuses of garbage disposal.” That same year the newly elected government proclaimed that Taiwan was entering the era of the “circular economy” as part of the nation’s “5+2” industr ...more

Entrepreneurship

Down from the Mountains

Jelly Figs' Journey to the Lowlands

Who loves Taiwan the best? Farmers who cultivate jelly figs and researchers who study fig reproduction will all reply: “The jelly-fig wasp!” The fig wasp that pollinates the jelly fig can only survive and reproduce in Taiwan, giving Taiwan a unique product—the jelly fig, from which ...more

Overseas Chinese

The Premier 12 Baseball Tournament

Taiwan Back in the World’s Top Five

The 2019 Premier 12 baseball tournament, organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, served as a qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Though initially not favored to do well, Taiwan’s national team, Chinese Taipei, played with discipline, intelligence, and indomitable w ...more

Global Outlook

Cultivating New AI Professionals

The Taiwan AI Academy

It’s late fall in Hsinchu, and the November winds are bringing news of the harvest. At Fu Le Fishing Village, the fishponds stretch into the distance, but there’s not a person in sight and the only sound is the susurration of the wind. The local fish farmers are having a big day elsewher ...more

Taiwan Panorama

Photo Essay

Lantern festival in Tainan (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Around Taiwan

The Ruirong Timepiece Shop has been in operation for over 70 years, and the boss, Yin Ruixiang, is now 93 years old. The many antique clocks in the shop all sound off together on the hour. (photo by Kent Chuang)

Around Taiwan

At Kyle Hsieh’s Old House Inn, even light and shadow are key elements that the owner takes great care over. (photo by Kent Chuang)

Around Taiwan

Kuo Su-jen (right), chairwoman of Rich Development Co. and of the Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation, is an art enthusiast who actively supports artists. Kuo and the artist Leigh Wen (left) are close friends. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Around Taiwan

The Gala Asia showcases a variety of local brands. When customers select souvenirs, they are extending their connection to Taiwan. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Moments in Time to Last an Eternity

The Taiwan Panorama Photo Collection is a visual record of this land of Taiwan and of its people, from the exalted to the ordinary. It includes a rich variety of images, covering local life and customs, holidays, folk rituals, and portraits of individuals, as well as pictures taken by our photojournalists on assignment abroad. These images tell the true story of the emotional attachment people this land and its people. In this ever-changing world, these moments, frozen in time by our cameras, will last forever.