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New York, Aug. 7 (CNA) The third edition of New York's TaiwanFest market brought a distinctly Ghost Month flavor to Washington Square Park Sunday, with a traditional altar set up alongside the usual offerings of Taiwanese cuisine and culture.
WEATHER <strong>Dad’s Day means typhoons</strong> A total of six typhoon warnings were issued around Father’s Day from 2000 to last year, making it the most common time for tropical cyclones to make landfall in Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau said in a social media post yesterday. The frequency of land warnings on Aug. 8 and 9 was a natural phenomenon, because tropical disturbances have the highest chance of affecting the nation during this period, bureau Director-General Cheng Ming-dean (鄭明典) said. The six storms were Typhoon Bopha in 2006, Typhoon Panbuk and Typhoon ...
A traditional Zhongyuan Pudu ceremony is held at Nankunshen Temple in Tainan’s Beimen Borough yesterday. Many Taiwanese observe the Ghost Festival on the 15th day of Ghost Month, the seventh month of the lunar calendar, this year from July 29 to Aug. 26, by making food offerings to wandering spirits.
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