As children, we can while away the hours with just some paper and a few crayons. Once grown, however, we can often find ourselves preoccupied with one task after another and always feeling that we just don’t have the time. We may forget to just stop for a while, enjoy a good meal, and revel in the unassuming splendor of flowers and plants around us. But in fact, sampling the flavors of life is quite simple.

On the morning of April 15, President Tsai Ing-wen met a senior delegation sent by US President Joe Biden at the Presidential Office. President Tsai noted that the delegation’s visit highlights the growing partnership between Taiwan and the United States, and demonstrates US bipartisan support for Taiwan. The president expressed optimism that continued cooperation between Taiwan and the United States will strengthen our bilateral partnership and yield even more fruitful results.

On April 15, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced one new confirmed imported case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. The new case is a Taiwanese girl under the age of five. She arrived in Taiwan with Case #1036 (an Indonesian woman in her 30s) on March 28. She was transported to the hospital along with Case #1036. Because she experienced a cough on March 21, the girl was tested for COVID-19. She tested negative.

“Super Policy (超級縣政),” the poster displayed at the 2019 Taiwan Design Expo in Pingtung, is a Design Excellence winner of the 2021 iF Design Award 2021. Commissioned by the Pingtung County Government, Chiang Meng-chih (江孟芝), creative director of Taipei-based Mengdom Design Lab, created the poster, which features the county government’s policies on agriculture, labor affairs, civic engineering, environmental protection, social welfare, Hakka affairs, indigenous affairs, education and culture.