The Taipei City Government should create more facilities to help boost the “rainbow economy,” the economic power driven by demand from the LGBT+ community, Taipei City Councilor Hsu Shu-hua (許淑華) said on Saturday.
Taiwan last year made headlines internationally for legalizing same-sex marriage, but the Taipei City Government has yet to realize the potential for increased tourism that the nation being the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage could bring, the Democratic Progressive Party member said.
Hsu said that her constituency, which includes Songshan (松山) and Xinyi (信義) districts, have many tourist attractions that could entice international visitors, so if the city government introduced same-sex elements to promote such areas, it would help attract more international visitors.
Photo: Ho Shih-chang, Taipei Times
The Taipei Public Works Department could paint the bridge near Rainbow Riverside Park (彩虹河濱公園) in Neihu District (內湖) in rainbow hues to create a unique landmark, Hsu said.
The Taipei Tourism Department should come up with a marketing plan within the month, Hsu said.
The Tourism Department said it had begun focusing on a same-sex theme last year, including designing a rainbow-colored logo, establishing rainbow-themed art in the Ximending (西門町) area and at the 228 Memorial Park.
It installed rainbow-colored lamplights and banners for this year’s Pride Parade, and is planning an art installation at the Taipei City Hall plaza by September.
The Public Works Department said the bridge near Rainbow Riverside Park was repainted in 2017 and its next repainting would be in seven to 10 years, but it would keep Hsu’s suggestions in mind when the time comes for the next paint job.
LOUD AND PROUD Taiwan might have taken a drubbing against Australia and Japan, but you might not know it from the enthusiasm and numbers of the fans Taiwan might not be expected to win the World Baseball Classic (WBC) but their fans are making their presence felt in Tokyo, with tens of thousands decked out in the team’s blue, blowing horns and singing songs. Taiwanese fans have packed out the Tokyo Dome for all three of their games so far and even threatened to drown out home team supporters when their team played Japan on Friday. They blew trumpets, chanted for their favorite players and had their own cheerleading squad who dance on a stage during the game. The team struggled to match that exuberance on the field, with
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. The single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, saber-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. A single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 800,000 to 400,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, sabre-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Whether Japan would help defend Taiwan in case of a cross-strait conflict would depend on the US and the extent to which Japan would be allowed to act under the US-Japan Security Treaty, former Japanese minister of defense Satoshi Morimoto said. As China has not given up on the idea of invading Taiwan by force, to what extent Japan could support US military action would hinge on Washington’s intention and its negotiation with Tokyo, Morimoto said in an interview with the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) yesterday. There has to be sufficient mutual recognition of how Japan could provide
RSS