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Taipei, June 2 (CNA) The Australian Office in Taipei and Taiwan's National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance exchanges in the fields of art and culture.

<strong>EV charging policy</strong> I have read the news about Taiwan Power Co introducing its first policy on the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) during peak hours. I support the idea that electricity use for vehicles should cost more. To prevent blackouts in peak hours, it is necessary for the government to come up with new methods to apportion electricity use. The Motor Vehicles Office has said that about 68,000 electrified vehicles were sold last year, including 58,000 hybrid electric vehicles and 10,000 battery electric vehicles, an annual growth rate of 42.4 percent and 1...

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 life of former National Assembly representative and Paiwan doctor Gui Giling was on Friday commemorated at a funeral in Taitung County’s Jinfong Township (金鋒), where he was remembered for his efforts in changing how indigenous people are treated in Taiwan. Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Icyang Parod said that Gui, a long-time supporter of the indigenous movement, had “charged on stage” during the 1994 convention of the National Assembly and demanded a revote on a motion to remove the term “mountain compatriots” (山胞) from the Constitution to refer to indigenous peo...

Pingtung County’s Mudan Township (牡丹) has erected a statue of Paiwan leader Aruqu Kavulungan and his son, who were killed in the Mudan Incident, with the hope of sharing the Paiwan perspective of the incident. The Mudan Incident occurred in 1871 when Ryukuan sailors were shipwrecked off Hengchun Peninsula. They were massacred by Paiwan when the sailors ended up in their village of Kuskus — which today is Gaoshih Village (高士) in Mudan. The incident is usually told from the Japanese perspective. It was used by the Japanese as a pretense for the 1874 invasion of Taiwan — which at th...