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Taiwan Panorama / Editors' Choices |
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Editors' Choices |
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| Editors' Choices are selected from among each issue's most interesting articles. These selections also highlight English vocabulary items to help readers with their English studies. Just click on highlighted words to hear their correct pronunciation. |
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| "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower."-william Blake. What commercial opportunities, and what mysteries, does the riotously colorful world of flowers still have to reveal?... |
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Taiwan's Flower Industry:
Putting Down Roots, Branching Out |
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| Chang Chiung-fang/photos by Hsueh Chi-kuang/tr. by Scott Williams |
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Taiwan produces one-third of the world's orchids. In Japan, one of the world's top three flower consumers, it supplies 85% of the Oncidium orchids and nearly 90% of the flamingo lilies on the market.
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Exclusive Plant Patents Taking Root |
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| Chang Chiung-fang/tr. by Phil Newell |
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Flowers' beauty is their birthright. But it takes the wisdom and skill of breeders to do "matchmaking" among plants to enhance their allure.
Some people oppose allowing anyone to have exclusive right... |
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The Best Know No Boundaries |
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Multi-Award-Winning Designer Chen Yanting |
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| Lin Hsin-ching/photos by Jimmy Lin/tr. by Geof Aberhart |
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Winners of prestigious international prizes are not uncommon amongst the students at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's College of Design, but most of them find success in one of t... |
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Compassion in the Mountains:
Taitung St. Mary's Hospital at Half a Century |
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| Chen Hsin-yi/photos by Chuang Kung-ju/tr. by Josh Aguiar |
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If you decide to visit St. Mary's Hos-pital in Taitung, be advised that you might find that most of the employees are out doing fieldwork.
Bright and early at 8:30 one morning a group comprising a nu... |
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Chou Meng-tieh: Ascetic, Poet |
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| Chen Hung-hsu/photos by Chen Wen-fa/tr. by Scott Williams |
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Chou Meng-tieh, "Uncle Chou," always cuts a familiar figure when he's out on the street.
No matter the season, he'll be wearing a woolen cap and a long robe, and carrying an umbrella and a big bag f... |
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