Check out this article…. On March 16th, on the stroke of half past midnight, a palanquin holding a centuries-old Matsu statue, newly washed and dressed, will leave the Gong Tian Temple (拱天宮) in Baishatun (白沙屯), Miaoli County….. Source: Do as the lady says – Taipei Times Continue reading Do as the lady says – Taipei Times
Challenges facing Taiwan’s new president… Calls are mounting in Taiwan for the government to look into the White Terror, a dark period in its history when hundreds of dissidents were executed. Source: Taiwan Kuomintang: Revisiting the White Terror years – BBC News Continue reading Taiwan Kuomintang: Revisiting the White Terror years – BBC News
Cherry Blossom in every shade of pink is out in Taiwan ~ Spring is here! Sanzhi 三芝 is looking so beautiful at this time of year ~ there’s pink trees everywhere! Continue reading And the Cherry Blossom 櫻花 goes on and on!
It’s the Year of the Monkey and monkeys lanterns are everywhere! The 15th day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, and this year the 2016 Lantern Festival is at Taoyuan, on a site covering 20 hectares right at the High-Speed Rail Station ~ just so convenient for us all! It lasts from February 22 – March 6. Yesterday was a national holiday in Taiwan and the weather was great, so what better day to go?! YES! Taoyuan is 20 minutes by high-speed rail from Taipei, and costs NT$ 155 one way on a non-reserved ticket – a bargain! … Continue reading Taiwan Lantern Festival 2016 @ Taoyuan!
After 2 long, wet, damp, horrible weeks of seemingly non-stop rain since Chinese New Year, the sun is finally out in Sanzhi ~ and so is the cherry blossom! Yippee! Continue reading Cherry Blossom Season @ Taiwan!
The Wall Street Journal must have liked my Instagram photo for the Year of the Monkey at Chinese New Year ~ they’ve included it here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Wall Street Journal (@wsj) Mine’s is the bottom right photo, taken at the Jian-Guo Flower Market in Taipei just before Chinese New Year – such a happy monkey – he kinda looks like he’s taking off down a ski slope lol! It’s also No. 26 of 33 photos published on their website – check out the link here Continue reading The Year of the Monkey @ The Wall Street Journal!
Last week’s gloriously sunny weather for Chinese New Year meant that everything looked so beautiful! I’ve found 5 small churches in Sanzhi Town, and the biggest is the Sanzhi Presbyterian Church 台灣基督長老教會三芝教會 ~ they’re busy constructing a new church building, along by the river, and it’s looking good so far! Their old building, which is still being used, also looked really good in the sun ~ and so did the view of the Yang-Ming Shan Mountains just along from the church! Praying for this building project to bring glory to God and renewal of faith for the people! Continue reading The Old and the New: Sanzhi Presbyterian Church 台灣基督長老教會三芝教會
A sombre, sober and subdued Lunar New Year for all of Taiwan. It started with the deadly 6.4 earthquake early on Saturday February 6 in southern Taiwan, which led to the collapse of a number of high-rise buildings in Tainan, including the 17-storey Weiguan Jinlong apartment complex, where over 100 were killed. Electricity and water outages made the New Year even worse for many, and as High-Speed Rail services were cancelled in southern Taiwan, many people were forced to change their travel plans. TV and Newspaper reports kept us all focused on the emerging nightmare…. Tragedy after tragedy – as … Continue reading Chinese New Year 2016
Updates about the earthquake…. An eight-year-old girl is the latest survivor to be rescued from a building which collapsed in Taiwan’s deadly earthquake on Saturday. Source: Taiwan earthquake: Eight-year-old rescued after 60 hours – BBC News Also from the Taipei Times: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/02/09/2003639107 Continue reading Taiwan earthquake: Eight-year-old rescued after 60 hours – BBC News
Catherine Lee 