CULTURE
Exhibit to feature Qin culture
An exhibition on the culture of the Qin Dynasty is to be featured at the National Palace Museum in Taipei from Saturday to Aug. 31, including the largest-ever loan of artifacts from the famed Terra-cotta Army. China has loaned 10 terra-cotta warriors and hundreds of other artifacts to the exhibition. Most of the artifacts are to be displayed for the first time in Taiwan and 70 percent of the exhibits are first-grade cultural relics with a total value of about NT$3 billion (US$92.93 million), a museum spokesman said. The exhibition contains 189 items, including a number of life-size clay statues of warriors along with weapons and decorative items made from jade and copper, according to the museum. The warriors were buried about 2,200 years ago to guard the tomb of Qin Shihuang (秦始皇), a Qin Dynasty ruler, who created China’s first unitary state by conquering rival kingdoms.
FOOD
Agency touts QR system
Consumers in Taiwan should try to obtain as much information as possible about agricultural products and can do so by using a tracing system that was introduced last year, the Agriculture and Food Agency said. Consumers can see the address and telephone numbers of producers by scanning QR codes on packages of certain agricultural products, and in some cases, view laboratory test results, the agency said. Since April last year, when the system was introduced, about 9,169 sets of QR codes have been issued for products in 409 categories, including rice, vegetables, fruits and processed agricultural products, according to the agency. It said shoppers are encouraged to use their smartphones to scan QR codes and obtain information about products’ origins.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智伃) and Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday evening last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said today. The three KMT officials led an assembly outside the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office, a restricted area where public assembly is not allowed, protesting the questioning of several KMT staff and searches of KMT headquarters and offices in a recall petition forgery case. Chu, Yang and Hsieh are all suspected of contravening the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) by holding
PRAISE: Japanese visitor Takashi Kubota said the Taiwanese temple architecture images showcased in the AI Art Gallery were the most impressive displays he saw Taiwan does not have an official pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, because of its diplomatic predicament, but the government-backed Tech World pavilion is drawing interest with its unique recreations of works by Taiwanese artists. The pavilion features an artificial intelligence (AI)-based art gallery showcasing works of famous Taiwanese artists from the Japanese colonial period using innovative technologies. Among its main simulated displays are Eastern gouache paintings by Chen Chin (陳進), Lin Yu-shan (林玉山) and Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖), who were the three young Taiwanese painters selected for the East Asian Painting exhibition in 1927. Gouache is a water-based
Taiwan would welcome the return of Honduras as a diplomatic ally if its next president decides to make such a move, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. “Of course, we would welcome Honduras if they want to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after their elections,” Lin said at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, when asked to comment on statements made by two of the three Honduran presidential candidates during the presidential campaign in the Central American country. Taiwan is paying close attention to the region as a whole in the wake of a
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 2:23pm today, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). The epicenter of the temblor was 5.4 kilometers northeast of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 34.9 km, according to the CWA. The earthquake's intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was the highest in Hualien County, where it measured 2 on Taiwan's 7-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 1 in Yilan county, Taichung, Nantou County, Changhua County and Yunlin County, the CWA said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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