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2024-11-01
ISSUE #686
Ongoing
Following the success of her spring tour along the East Coast, Jenna Tang, the translator of the Taiwanese novel "Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise," is preparing for another extensive tour from September to November. 
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale  in Japan is set to take place from July 13 to Nov. 10. This year, artworks from Taiwanese art group Fieldoffice Architects and Taiwanese illustrator Jimmy Liao have been invited to be featured at the event. 
The 44th Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF), set to take place from Oct. 2 to Nov. 10, has nominated three Taiwanese films in the NETPAC Award. The nominated films are "Hunter Brothers," "Dead Talents Society," and "Who'll Stop the Rain." 
Ministry Updates
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The 2nd National Languages Development Convention, launched in July, concluded on Oct. 27. It featured a series of forums co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education, Council of Indigenous Peoples, and Hakka Affairs Council.  
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The Preparatory Office of National Railway Museum (PONRM) has signed two memoranda of understanding with the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Taiwan Railway Corporation (TRC) on Oct. 26.
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The Ministry of Culture has announced the winners of the 2nd Community Empowerment Awards, honoring individuals and groups who have made extraordinary contributions to their communities. 
Cultural Features
Hsieh San-tai was born in 1958 in a small village on the outskirts of Magong, Penghu, an archipelago of low-lying islands in the Taiwan Strait. At the age of 20, he left his hometown for the first time, heading towards Kaohsiung City to do his compulsory military service. 
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Built some 80 years ago in the 1940s, the dormitories in Minquan Borough, Taitung, form the largest such cluster of buildings in the area and have borne witness to the development of Taitung through the Japanese era and since, becoming a conduit for the common memory of many Taitung residents.
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