The travel Web site CNN Travel has selected Tainan as one of the 24 best travel destinations globally for this year, praising the southern city for having exceptional cuisine and remarkable natural attractions. “
Celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2024, Tainan has become a Taiwan hotspot on the international stage,” CNN Travel said in a Jan. 2 report, explaining that the city has surpassed Taipei to boast the highest overall hotel occupancy rate in Taiwan over the past two years.
Tainan is considered Taiwan’s street food capital, loved for its beef soup and oyster omelets, while there are also otherworldly natural landscapes such as Tsao Shan Moon World, scenic salt farms, old temples and special museums, it said.
Photo courtesy of Tourism Bureau of Tainan City Government
Other destinations CNN featured include the Black Sea coast in Turkey, the Trans Dinarica Cycle Route in the Balkans, the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of Western Australia and freshwater springs in the US state of Florida.
Sharing the CNN list yesterday, the Tainan City government said the city was also included in Booking.com’s top 10 sustainable tourism destinations last year and in National Geographic Traveler’s “The Cool List 2024.”
Photo courtesy of Tourism Bureau of Tainan City Government
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
A fugitive in a suspected cosmetic surgery fraud case today returned to Taiwan from Canada, after being wanted for six years. Internet celebrity Su Chen-tuan (蘇陳端), known as Lady Nai Nai (貴婦奈奈), and her former boyfriend, plastic surgeon Paul Huang (黃博健), allegedly defrauded clients and friends of about NT$1 billion (US$30.66 million). Su was put on a wanted list in 2019 when she lived in Toronto, Canada, after failing to respond to subpoenas and arrest warrants from the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. Su arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 5am today on an EVA Air flight accompanied by a
A 79-year-old woman died today after being struck by a train at a level crossing in Taoyuan, police said. The woman, identified by her surname Wang (王), crossed the tracks even though the barriers were down in Jhongli District’s (中壢) Neili (內壢) area, the Taoyuan Branch of the Railway Police Bureau said. Surveillance footage showed that the railway barriers were lowered when Wang entered the crossing, but why she ventured onto the track remains under investigation, the police said. Police said they received a report of an incident at 6:41am involving local train No. 2133 that was heading from Keelung to Chiayi City. Investigators
The Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office today requested that a court detain three individuals, including Keelung Department of Civil Affairs Director Chang Yuan-hsiang (張淵翔), in connection with an investigation into forged signatures used in recall campaigns. Chang is suspected of accessing a household registration system to assist with recall campaigns targeting Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) city councilors Cheng Wen-ting (鄭文婷) and Jiho Chang (張之豪), prosecutors said. Prosecutors yesterday directed investigators to search six locations, including the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Keelung office and the residences of several recall campaign leaders. The recall campaign leaders, including Chi Wen-chuan (紀文荃), Yu Cheng-i (游正義) and Hsu Shao-yeh
RSS