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A junior high school baseball team from Taitung County in southeastern Taiwan beat its rival from northern Taoyuan Sunday to win the county's first championship title in the Hsieh Kuo-cheng Cup for 21 years, gaining a berth to represent Taiwan in the Little League Baseball's (LLB's) Junior League Baseball Asia-Pacific Regional Tournament scheduled to be held in July.
https://focustaiwan.tw/sports/202004260017
【Taiwan's coronavirus response is among the best globally】
■ Hard learned lessons
During the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003, Taiwan was among the worst-hit territories, along with Hong Kong and southern China. More than 150,000 people were quarantined on the island -- 180 kilometers (110 miles) off China's southeastern coast -- and 181 people died.
While SARS now pales in comparison to the current crisis, it sent shockwaves through much of Asia and cast a long shadow over how people responded to future outbreaks. This helped many parts of the region react faster to the current coronavirus outbreak and take the danger more seriously than in other parts of the world, both at a governmental and societal level, with border controls and the wearing of face masks quickly becoming routine as early as January in many areas.
Taiwan has a world-class health care system, with universal coverage. As news of the coronavirus began to emerge from Wuhan in the run up to the Lunar New Year, officials at Taiwan's National Health Command Center (NHCC) -- set up in the wake of SARS -- moved quickly to respond to the potential threat, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"Taiwan rapidly produced and implemented a list of at least 124 action items in the past five weeks to protect public health," report co-author Jason Wang, a Taiwanese doctor and associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford Medicine, said in a statement. "The policies and actions go beyond border control because they recognized that that wasn't enough."
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1. More: CNN International https://cnn.it/2V3wImE
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Did you know pygmy tree shrews are superficially squirrel-like in appearance? They can be distinguished from squirrels by their long, pointed snouts and lack of long, black vibrissae.
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My very first sightings of this tiny treeshrews, Lesser Treeshrew (Tupaia minor). Technically called scandentians, which is are long-tailed, long-nosed, omnivorous mammals that inhabit the forests of southern and southeastern Asia. They superficially recall squirrels, are typically regarded as such by many people who inhabit the places where they occur, and were described as squirrels when first encountered by Europeans during the late 1700s.
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2017.1.16 - 2017.1.21 | Travel-teaching, work exchange at a local hostel, exploring & goofing around with new friends.
Blessed with stunning landscape and down-to-earth local culture, Taitung is a lovely backpacker's destination on southeastern coast of Taiwan. When not changing bed sheets, selling Taiwan Beer to tourists, or teaching/practicing yoga, I collected some footage here and there, secretly hoping I could become a cool YouTube vlogger someday. So here it begins.
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