As evening falls, alerts ring out and notifications pop up on dozens of tablet computers, reminding busy food-service workers to click to accept their next order.
But this is no ordinary restaurant. Here you will see neither dining area, nor wait staff, nor customers. The only people present are working either at the counter or in the kitchen, busily prepping online food orders for the endless procession of delivery persons that pass through to collect them. Welcome to the modern “cloud kit
Have you ever imagined that buildings could be not merely places that provide shelter from the elements, but might also be transformed into intelligent housekeepers? That they could gather and analyze a variety of detailed information from your daily life, and take action?
Eight of the leading firms in Taiwan’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector—Acer, Asustek Computer, AU Optronics, Delta Electronics, Lite-On, Microsoft Taiwan, Pegatron, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company—have formed the Taiwan Climate Partnership in order to share their carbon reduction experience and work with their supply chains to promote a comprehensive transformation to net-zero carbon emissions.
Shaped by various governments including the Dutch, the Ming loyalist Koxinga and his heirs, Qing-Dynasty China, Japan, and the ROC, Tainan boasts a rich cultural heritage. Its historic street foods continue to cast a spell on tourists from far and near.
The global pandemic has made international travel difficult, but Taiwanese remain as hospitable as ever. The Global Muslim Travel Index 2021, put out by Mastercard and CrescentRating, ranks Taiwan joint second with the UK for travel destinations that are not members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), trailing only Singapore.
At the 2021 Edison Best New Product Awards, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute was a gold winner with its “artificial-intelligence-based high-density shuttle rack service system,” which can upgrade the efficiency of warehousing, and a silver winner with its “MetabColor microbial dyes,” which can reduce environmental pollution in the textile industry. These innovations are major breakthroughs in moving toward the green economy.
As the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy and the lives of people everywhere, nations have gone in and out of lockdown and case numbers have hit unprecedented highs. However, the light of humanity shines brightest in the darkest times, and the blossoming friendship between Taiwan and Lithuania has been one example.
Acrucial part of the Taiwanese government’s efforts to support intellectual-property-related industries is to facilitate the publication of Taiwanese books abroad. In 1990 the Council for Cultural Affairs (now the Ministry of Culture) launched a scheme to encourage the translation and publication of books originally written in Chinese.
Dig a hole, then gently push the tree sapling down into it, cover the roots with soil, and water it well. Planting trees is simple, and is the most basic, effective and lowest-cost solution to the greenhouse effect and extreme weather.
It’s not too far-fetched to say that Stephanie Ho, founder of Green & Safe and CEO of Yuen Foong Yu Biotech, would “keep her own cow to be sure of drinking good milk.” An old Chinese adage tells us that nouveau-riche families do not acquire good taste until the third generation. As a granddaughter of one of the founders of the Yuen Foong Yu Group, Ho is very particular about taste: not just aesthetic, but culinary as well.
