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Yuguang Island (魚光島) is a rarity among islets. It wasn’t formed by volcanic action, by the natural accumulation of sediment or by humans dumping rocks. Like Kaohsiung’s Cijin (旗津), it was a peninsula until the authorities decided, for the sake of economic development, to sever it from “mainland” Taiwan. Back in the 17th century, at least 11 barrier islands made of mud and grit flushed out from inland Taiwan dotted the coast near Tainan. Likening them to humpbacked sea creatures, early Han settlers dubbed them kunshen (鯤鯓), and numbered them from north to south. Due to the...

2021/04/25 21:35 Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (center) presides over a ceremony to commence the route operation between Anping Harbor and Penghu. (Tainan Tourism an... Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (center) presides over a ceremony to commence the route operation between Anping Harbor and Penghu. (Tainan Tourism and Travel Bureau photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The passenger ship Natchan Rera on April 21 began to ply the route between Tainan’s Anping Harbor and the outlying island county of Penghu three days a week, according to a press release from th...

2021/03/08 15:47 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The arrival of the cruise ship Explorer Dream off the coast of Penghu’s Magong City on Monday (March 8) signaled the beginning of this year's tourism season for the archipelago. Penghu is an outlying island county of Taiwan in the middle of the Taiwan Strait. In addition to the island-hopping itinerary of the Explorer Dream, the passenger ship Natchan Rera is expected to begin services between Tainan's Anping Harbor and Penghu on March 19. Meanwhile, nine passenger ships operated by Pesca...

2021/02/23 11:20 "Greetings from the Whale" receives honorable mention at LIT Lighting Design Awards. (Tainan Tourism Bureau photo) "Greetings from the Whale" receives honorable mention at LIT Lighting Design Awards. (Tainan Tourism Bureau photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — "Greetings from the Whale," a public art installation in Tainan, was recently recognized by the LIT Lighting Design Awards, according to the Tainan Tourism Bureau. Created by Taiwanese artist Yang Shih-Yi (楊士毅), the 23-meter-long work received an honorable mentio...

Tainan installation work wins U.S. lighting award 02/22/2021 09:12 PM Blessings from the Whale. CNA photo on Feb. 22 Tainan, Feb. 22 (CNA) An installation art work located near Anping Harbor in Tainan was recently honored for its lighting design by the LIT Lighting Design Awards, the city's Tourism Bureau said Monday. The work, "Blessings from the Whale" created by Taiwanese artist Yang Shih-yi (楊士毅) in 2018, received an honorable mention at the awards, its third major honor after garnering a Taiwan Landscape Award in 2019 and an IESA American International Lighting Design Award in 2020...