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The Taichung City Government has been urged to include swimming classes in high-school curricula, as nearly two-thirds of the city’s schools do not teach the skill.
Democratic Progressive Party Taichung City Councilor Ho Min-cheng (何敏誠) said over the weekend that children and teens frequently drown during summer recess.
A 16-year-old high-school student surnamed Hung (洪) on Saturday drowned while playing with a friend in a deep pool about 2km upstream from the Dajia River’s (大甲溪) Guguan checkpoint in Taichung.
Ho said 291 people drowned last year, accounting for 4.3 percent of unintentional injuries, according to Ministry of Health and Welfare statistics.
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Nearly four decades before “Made in Taiwan” became a global phenomenon in the 1970s, renowned artist Yen Shui-long (顏水龍) launched a one-man mission to bring local products to the international stage.
“I want the world to see how useful Taiwanese products are, and overturn the current situation where the notion of ‘Made in Taiwan’ is frowned upon,” Yen wrote in a 1942 op-ed in the Public Opinion Press (公論報).
Not only did he feel that local crafts were overlooked by the Japanese authorities, he wanted to bring the arts closer to the people through a “crafts