Hualien Events and Issues
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Mandarin Airlines seeks to suspend Hualien routes due to low passenger numbers, while a super typhoon is forecast to make landfall in the region. Separately, a teenager died in Hualien after an electric scooter crash, and a local water park's summer event drew 8,000 visitors on its opening day, offering free entry to residents.
Hualien Girls’ Senior High School sells memorial charm for beloved campus dog
For generations of students at National Hualien Girls’ Senior High School, Xiao Guai was part of the daily school routine. The white dog greeted students at the gate, joined them during exercise and stayed nearby as they studied and attended evening classes. Xiao Guai spent about 19 years at the school after an older student brought the stray dog there from a university campus in Hualien. The dog …
Hualien bakery pushes back after Taiwan budget cuts threaten disadvantaged groups’ mooncake orders
A Hualien bakery is refusing to stop selling its signature egg yolk pastries, even as public anger grows over Taiwan’s budget cuts and the cancellation of mooncake orders from sheltered workshops. YYY…
Filipino Para Dragon Boat Team Stranded in Hualien as Locals Rally to Help
A 53-member Filipino dragon boat team arrived in Hualien for a six-day world championship and found itself unable to pay for accommodation. The team includes several athletes with physical and intelle…
Fu Kun-chi Demands Evidence of Vote-Buying, as Critics List Hualien Cases: Why So Nervous?
A former Financial Times correspondent's blunt claim that every vote in rural Hualien was bought has triggered an angry political response and a counterattack over the county's record of election brib…