{"id":217,"date":"2006-02-03T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2019-07-07T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T03:37:31","slug":"interesting-signs-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/interesting-signs-in-taiwan-217","title":{"rendered":"Interesting signs in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign in Taipei's international airport.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot1_sm.jpg\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Taiwan's UN hopes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>The UN can bring peace in the Taiwan Strait<\/h2>\n<p>The founding of the United Nations in 1945 was a commitment to peace after years of horrendous war. Now, China openly threatens Taiwan by passing its \"anti-secession law\", which sets the conditions for the use of force against Taiwan. Only the UN can act as a forum for maintaining security and peace. Please support Taiwan's participation in the UN.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sign in an underground railway station:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"air raid shelter sign\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Bird Flu<\/h2>\n<p>In all stations:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/pix\/albums\/asia\/taiwan_06\/normal_Taiwan2006_pot8.jpg\" alt=\"bird flu\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Falun Gong<\/h2>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there are pro-<strong>Falun Gong<\/strong> groups in Taiwan. This one was at the National Palace Museum. The poster is about the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square (which Falun gong claims was not suicide):<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot3_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Falun Gong\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one is at Sun Moon Lake:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot4_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Falun Dafa is good\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is some curious English here and there:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/pix\/albums\/asia\/taiwan_06\/normal_Taiwan2006_pot5.jpg\" alt=\"crack down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot6_sm.jpg\" alt=\"crack down\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Recycling<\/h2>\n<p>The Taiwanese are much more into recycling than the Singaporeans are:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot7_sm.jpg\" alt=\"recycle\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Smoking<\/h2>\n<p>There are many similarities between Taiwan and Japan. This is not surprising, as it was a Japanese colony for 50 years. But one thing that is way better than Japan is the ban on smoking in restaurants:<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/travel\/Taiwan2006_pot9_sm.jpg\" alt=\"recycle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/taiwan-worth-a-visit-224\">Taiwan - worth a visit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is a fascinating country since it's not really a \"real\" country. It's well worth a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}