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Student film about Dafen Incident wins top prize By Hung Chen-hung and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer A student film on the Dafen Incident on Tuesday won the top prize at the Ministry of Education’s Aboriginal film festival. Made by students at I-Shou University, War of the Moon (月戰) won the grand prize at the seventh Mata Awards, the ministry said. Director Huang Hsiao-ching (黃孝擎), a university student of Bunun descent, said he decided to make the film after fellow Bunun students proposed shooting a movie on the Bunun historical experience during a short-film...

Year in review: Dance — Revelations in movement and growth While restrictions imposed after the outbreak of COVID-19 sharply curtailed performances in the first half the of year, shows in the second half more than made up for the losses By Diane Baker / Staff reporter In a year when so many theaters and performing arts companies were forced to shutter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, audiences and artists in Taiwan were able to enjoy a relative degree of normality, and I felt ridiculously fortunate to not only be able to see shows, but see so many good ones. While many productions exceeded e...

Names should represent Taiwan By Ray Song 宋磊 As the navy’s indigenous submarine program gathers pace, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Tuesday attended a naming ceremony for the Ta Chiang (塔江艦), an upgraded production version of the navy’s Tuo Chiang-class missile corvette, at Lung Teh Shipbuilding’s shipyard in Yilan County’s Suao Township (蘇澳). The name Ta Chiang is rich in local symbolism and is a fitting designation to represent Taiwan’s spirit of national defense. The first character of the ship’s name is taken from the Tawa River (塔瓦溪) in Taitung C...

Taiwan Launches First Improved Catamaran Corvette, Takes deliver of Minelayer Taiwanese shipbuilder Lung Teh Shipbuilding launched on 15 December the first improved Tuo Jiang-class fast missile corvette for the Republic of China (ROC) Navy. The same day, the first Min Jiang-class mine laying ship was delivered. 17 Dec 2020 Ta Jiang (619) has a displacement of around 700 tonnes and a maximum speed of 45 knots thanks to her catamaran design. She is specifically designed to operate in shallow or coastal waters, where bigger ships such...

Austronesian literary migration The fourth issue of Maori literary journal ‘Ora Nui’ is a collaboration with Taiwanese creatives, featuring writing, art and academic studies by Aborigines or about Aboriginal issues By Han Cheung / Staff reporter “You were colonized a long time before us yet the pain never lessens. Even if the methods were just as brutal and last a longer time,” Maori writer Gerry Te Kapa Coates writes to Taiwanese Aborigines in the poem, Walking in Your Shoes — We the Colonised Unite. The indigenous peoples of Taiwan and New Zealand share a common Austronesian anc...