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Firecracker-loving Jack Russell in video uninjured By Chen Chien-chih and Kayleigh Madjar Staff reporter, with staff writer The owner of a firecracker-loving Jack Russell terrier on Tuesday assured the public that the dog is uninjured, save for some scorched whiskers, after a video showing the dog carrying a lit firecracker went viral online. In the video taken on Saturday last week, the terrier picks up the firecracker and carries it into the house of his owner’s family, spraying sparks throughout a room, until the owner rushes to take the dog back outside. The dog then picks it up again a...

2021/02/17 17:09 The Frog Rock Skywalk in Jianshi Township (Hsinchu County Government photo) The Frog Rock Skywalk in Jianshi Township (Hsinchu County Government photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Hsinchu County Government has recommended five local trails to members of the public to visit during the spring season: Fengqi Sunset Trail, Feifeng Mountain Trail, Yemagan Mountain Trail, Frog Rock Skywalk, and Matai Historic Trail. CNA quoted Transportation and Tourism Department Director Yu Chih-hsiang (游志祥) as saying that the Fengqi Sunset Trail, wh...

Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette Store by X+Living: 2020 Best of Year Winner for Retail February 3, 2021 Photography by Wu Gingshan. Great novels immerse readers in another world. But it’s rare for a bookstore to be similarly transporting. That is, unless it’s designed by founder and creative director Li Xiang, who has made a specialty of surrealistic shelves. Take this 12,000-square-foot project, one of 17 her firm X+Living has conceived for the Chinese chain Zhongshuge, inside a Galeries Lafayette department store. Riffing on classical Chinese gardens, it reveals itself gradually, leading b...

2021/01/28 10:39 Xian H-6k bombers lined up at PLAAF airbase. (mod.gov.cn photo)  Xian H-6k bombers lined up at PLAAF airbase. (mod.gov.cn photo)  TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Amid China's show of force last weekend featuring eight bombers and reports that this is a "dress rehearsal" for war, China affairs analyst Ian Easton has provided a list of the major potential Taiwan targets of Chinese warplanes in the event of an attack, including in the heart of Taipei. On Saturday (Jan. 23), the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) flew 13 pl...

Taiwan in Time: The house of Sanmao’s dreams A derelict red brick house in Chingchuan caught the eye of the famed itinerant writer during a visit in 1984, which still bears her name today By Han Cheung / Staff reporter Jan.4 to Jan.10 Writer Sanmao (三毛) didn’t spend much time in the mountain village of Chingchuan (清泉) in Wufeng Township (五峰), Hsinchu County, something about the place seemed to deeply impact her heart. “When I think of Chingchuan, it’s as if there’s a kind of pain,” she wrote to Father Barry Martinson, the Jesuit priest in Chingchuan who invited her ...