Exhibition for waste turned into creative art ~ Taichung City Second Environmental Art Festival Contents: Taichung City Second Environmental Art Festival kicked off at 9:00 am on May 18, 2013 (Sat) at the Pozhilin Discarded Furniture Recycling Center run by the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) of Taichung City Government. To make this opening ceremony more thematic and appealing, the EPB invited Mr. Huang Chao-hu (黃朝湖), president of the International Union of Color Ink Painters, to be curator. Also invited were many artists and teachers, including Chong Ming-zhong (莊明中), Zhong Jun-xion...

Since September 1, 2012, Taiwan’s land expropriation compensation system has shifted from the practice of “adding a percentage to the publicly announced current land value” to "appraisal by market price". The biggest difference between the new and old systems lies in the fact that in the past, compensations for expropriation were made by mass zoning appraisal but now every piece of expropriated land must be evaluated, audited and reviewed before compensation. To provide our citizens with a quality living space and improve and enhance the investment environment, Taichung City Government has b...