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Local Olympians, NBA stars featured at sneaker exhibit in Taipei ... (Focus Taiwan News Channel)

Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) "Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street," a traveling sneakers exhibition staged by the Design Museum in London, kicked off in Taipei ...

Indonesia's 'all-gendered' priests on verge of extinction (Taipei Times)

After dawn in a small eastern Indonesia town, a young man holds an ornate umbrella over non-binary priest Puang Matowa Nani, as they walk barefoot to a ...

“It impacts multiple systems in the brain.” Scientists are not exactly sure what is going on in our bodies during a hangover, but they do know it is caused by a variety of biochemical and neurochemical changes. Fencihu Township (奮起湖) in Chiayi County is a popular tourist destination, well-known as one of the stops on the Chiayi (嘉義) to Alishan (阿里山) mountain-line train route. “It doesn’t just affect the liver or the brain,” Palmer says, “it affects almost every organ.” This Christmas, many of us will be celebrating with a drink or two or three. “What they do is culture and tradition which we must preserve,” the 66-year-old said. It is impossible to talk about Avatar: The Way of Water without sounding hyperbolic. In Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia and North Korea. “Alcohol is a ‘dirty drug,’” says Emily Palmer, a researcher at Imperial College London, who studies hangovers. “Bissu held a very important role during the kingdom era. The Bissu once lived a prosperous life. “They were scared and decided to hide.” The community is now on the brink of extinction, seeing their numbers dissolve into the majority Bugis ethnic group in South Sulawesi. They must then undergo extensive training to perform different rituals and learn a secret language only Bissu can understand.

Giraffe and giant anteater die at Taipei Zoo (台北時報)

Taipei Zoo yesterday announced the deaths of a 23-year-old male giraffe from an age-related ailment and a giant anteater, who died after giving birth.

More than 52 percent of the buildings in the city are three to five floors, and almost half of Taipei’s residential buildings are estimated to not have elevators. FEW ELEVATORS: Most of Taipei’s ubiquitous alleyway homes are in decline, creating an urgent problem for the city’s new mayor and council, a real-estate manager said More than 40 percent of buildings in Taipei do not have elevators, Ministry of the Interior data show on its Real Estate Information Platform. Although the Chinese Communist Party occupies Tibet and suppresses its culture, the faith of Tibetans has not wavered, he said, adding that he felt the people’s fondness for him and for The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) prioritizes saving lives, but Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement contract does not allow for Taiwan to switch undelivered doses for the new Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent vaccine, Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Victor Wang (王必勝), who heads the center, said yesterday. He told the visitors that Buddhism is not just a religion, but also a philosophy and a science. Legislator and Hsinchu mayor-elect Ann Kao (高虹安) and her boyfriend, Lee Chung-ting (李忠庭), were yesterday questioned by investigators, while a search was conducted at her legislative offices in Taipei and other locations, as part of a judicial probe into alleged wage fraud, illegal payroll deductions and embezzlement of public funds.

Taiwan main supplier of chips, electric bikes to EU (Taipei Times)

KEY MARKET: The EU is the fourth-largest buyer of goods from Taiwan, with Germany accounting for most of the bloc's purchases and the Netherlands a close ...

Hon Hai said in a separate statement on Saturday that it decided to sell the stake to avoid uncertainty because the investment Key electronics manufacturers are moving faster to diversify their capacity globally, taking advantage of local incentive policies, Counterpoint Research analysts Ivan Lam (林科宇) and Bai Shenghao (白晟昊) said. Construction was set to begin by the middle of next year, and the German government planned to provide 6.8 billion euros in state aid. Seeking SUBSIDIES: The chipmaker cited geopolitical challenges, industry demand issues, inflation and recession as reasons for increased cost and delay of the project Intel Corp is to delay construction of its planned German chip plant and is seeking more in government subsidies, Volksstimme reported. Wei made the remarks during a speech on challenges facing the semiconductor industry at a forum held by Monte Jade Global Science and Technology Association in Taipei. Hon Hai’s China-listed Foxconn Industrial Internet Co (FII, 富士康工業互聯網) is planning to sell the shares to Yantai Haixiu IC Investment Center (煙臺海秀積體電路產業投資中心) for no less than 5.38 billion yuan (US$771.5 million), a Taiwan Stock Exchange filing showed on Friday.

Taipei Zoo reports deaths of giant anteater, giraffe - Focus Taiwan (Focus Taiwan News Channel)