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Tea and More in Taiwan

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October 8th 2012
My job's benefits are pretty good, especially where vacations are concerned. Like public school teachers in the US, I get off all the public holidays, and some of them give me long weekends. Chuseok, one of the most important holidays in the Korean calendar, was a three-day weekend this year, but we had another holiday on the Wednesday, so my school principal used a 'discretionary' h ... read more

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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more