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Revealing Taiwan Through Design:

Apex Lin Gives Voice to Taiwan

In September 2025, the 34th World Design Congress and General Assembly took place in London. Coinciding with these prestigious events in the field of industrial design, the Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom presented Revealing Taiwan Through Design in its new London premises f......

Ocean Taiwan:

Exhibiting Taiwanese Seascapes in Europe

When European explorers sailed to the Pacific in the mid-16th century, they discovered a green island in the deep blue sea and dubbed it “Ilha Formosa”—the beautiful island. Even today, as the airplane descends from the clouds, visitors to Taiwan still find themselves marveling at the first si......

Sending Blessings to the Vatican:

Hsieh Sheng-Min’s Religious Art Exhibit

Auspicious paintings use images as visual metaphors to herald good fortune, attract blessings, and avert evil, delighting viewers with a mixture of the sacred and the secular. The Catholic Church has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year, and Hsieh Sheng-min, an expert in auspicious painting, was invit......

Let’s Rock!

Taiwanese Heavy Metal Shreds in Finland

Taiwan and Finland are separated by 8,000 kilometers of distance and 40 degrees of latitude, but both adhere to the universal values of human rights, freedom, and democracy. Another thing that Taiwan and Finland have in common is heavy metal music. Representative Freddy Lim of the Taipei Repre......

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On the Right Track:

The Delights of Taiwan’s Tourist Trains

Eiji Mitooka, known as the father of specialty trains in Japan, once said: “Riding the train can itself be the purpose of a journey.” In recent years, a number of special tourist trains have been launched in Taiwan, with stylish carriage interiors, exquisite meals, and cordial, professional st......

Architectural Beauty:

Interplays of Lines, Light, and Space

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Protecting Taiwan’s

Stone Fish Weirs

There are 609 stone fish weirs in Penghu County alone, their dikes extending over 133 kilometers. In particular, Jibei Island has 101 existing fish weirs, giving it the highest concentration of such structures in the world. Groups of fish weirs that date back over 300 years in places like Peng......

A Green Trail

Along the Jianqing Huaigu Trail in the Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area lies a section of an abandoned logging railway, now overgrown with moss and ferns. Wandering through the wild scene, we find ourselves transported back to a part of history that has been reclaimed by nature.......