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A recording of Paiwan singers from Sinevaudjan Village echoes through the exhibition room, the lyrics looking back at the hardships their ancestors suffered to give them the life they have today. Nearly 150 years ago, the village was wiped off the map by the Japanese during the Mudan Incident (牡丹社事件), and it took 36 years for the people to return and rebuild it. Due to a misunderstanding caused by language and cultural barriers, the ancestors of these singers — along with those from neighboring Kukus — killed 54 shipwrecked Ryukyuan sailors who had accidentally wandered into th...

The Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) Employee Welfare Committee yesterday signed a contract with Medlight Group to restore the agency’s old employee dormitories in Taipei and turn the area into a cultural park, which is to open in 2025. Located between Bade Road and Changan E Road, the dormitories, which were built during the Japanese colonial era, have a total floor area of 3,910m2 and were designated historic buildings by the Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs in 2007. Medlight has since 1999 been managing the shopping area at National Taiwan University Hospital’s Outpatient D...

<strong>May 10 to May 16</strong> Many elderly people wept as the crowds flooded Raohe Street (饒河街) on May 11, 1987. It had been over a decade since the street was this busy, the Minsheng Daily (民生報) reported. Locals set up altars along the way, praying that the grand opening of the Raohe Street Night Market would reverse their fortunes. It was Taipei’s first night market with government-mandated traffic control hours, banning cars from 5pm to midnight. “This is a great way to manage a night market, and other locales should follow suit,” the article stated. Th...