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Painstakingly, women of retirement age adorn sheet after sheet of yellow joss paper with gold and silver leaf and red paint to satisfy last orders for sacrificial cash offerings ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Chen Kun-huei (陳坤輝), 82, is determined to keep alive an ancient tradition of making the “ghost money” by hand even as others have shifted to automated production at factories. “I will continue making ghost money until I can’t move anymore,” said Chen, the third-generation owner of his family’s business in Miaoli County. Altogether, the Chens have been making ghost ...

Mortgages extended by domestic banks last month increased NT$70.25 billion (US$2.52 billion) from September, while construction loans increased by NT$23.95 billion, data released on Thursday by the central bank showed. The monthly increases were higher than September’s increases of NT$60.96 billion in mortgages and NT$19.21 billion in construction loans. It was also the largest monthly growth for mortgages since July, as people resumed buying houses after the easing of a COVID-19 outbreak that started in May. Housing transactions also picked up speed after Ghost Month, which this year took p...

K-drama Squid Game has become so popular that many netizens and even celebrities are parodying the show.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TAIPEI/HONG KONG - K-drama Squid Game has become so popular that many netizens and even celebrities are parodying the show. On Friday (Oct 1), Taiwanese TV host Jacky Wu posted online a video that spoofed an iconic scene in the show, involving a large creepy mechanical doll turning its head 360 degrees. In the five-second video, Wu, 59, who was...

Households prepare offerings in prayer for their ancestors and gods, but many temples are closed