Tainan Foreigner Assistance Center No.

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The Revitalizing Old Street, Anping Sets Culture and Innovation Alley

Celebrating Christmas in Beimen

Tainan City Orchestra inviting Chen You-Sho to perform at the Tainan City Orchestra Winter Concert

Register Your Pet

The Revitalizing Old Street, Anping Sets Culture and Innovation Alley Translated by Polin Kuo Tainans Anping Old Street(), as a popular tourist destination, now tends to not only gather the crowds but also boost its local culture. Other than the reappearing the vintage toys presented by street vendors, there are also the famous handicraft sword lion to help promote the innovatively cultural products and deepen the old street stylish. Coming to Anping Old Street seems to turn back the time. It is very nostalgic to see the sewing machines from the grandmothers generation as well as the darts for fifth and sixth grader. In order to make Anping Old Street worth not only the name of Tourist Street, local vendors work together to simultaneously diversify its contents and enhance the part of cultural heritage. Combining the history of sword lions and the old street, local shops even launched innovatively cultural product to make the street more diversified. A glimpse of a different Anping Old Street is that the new cultural and innovation alley appears to be an interesting carnival and also a time machine that further leaves a strong impression of Anping for its visitors.

Celebrating Christmas in Beimen

Translated by Chen-yu She From December 12th to 22nd, Tourism Bureau warmly welcome everyone to celebrate Christmas in Southwest Coast National Scenic Area and enjoy live entertainment in the special Christmas party, 2013 White Christmas. Despite the salt Christmas tree lighting ceremony on the opening day, the organiser also proudly presents Christmas Cosplay contest and white Christmas parade on December 22nd. There are even more merriment waiting for tourist to explore in the venues. During the special event, Beimen Tourist Centre will prepare free Christmas postcards for tourist to collect and Jingzaijiao Pottery Shard Salt Fields is admission free for all visitors. Furthermore, secret Santa gifts will be waiting for visitors who have collected three stamps from three tourist attractions in Tainan, including Salt mountain in Cigu, Taiwan Black-foot Disease Socio-Medical Service Memorial House and Taiwan Salt Museum. Visitors who held the ticket of Taiwan Tourist Shuttle Routes Southwest Coast Route will also have special Christmas presents. For more details, please call http://www.swcoast-nsa.gov.tw/. 06-786-1017 or visits official website

Tainan City Orchestra inviting Chen You-Sho to perform at the Tainan City Orchestra Winter Concert
Translated by Ching Chun Lin Tainan City Orchestra 2013 Winter Concert: The Brilliant Piano Melody takes place in the Performing Hall of Tainan Municipal Cultural Centre at 3:30p.m. on 1st December 2013. Music enthusiasts attending the concert are served with several classical works of Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Copland and Sibelius performed by the Tainan City Orchestra to indulge in a feast of classical music for the ears. The orchestra has also invited the famous pianist, Chen You-Sho, to perform on stage with its musicians. The performance of symphony is not planned in the Winter Concert program, but instead playful suites such as Appalachian Spring and Karelia, both challenging pieces that required tremendous amount of skills for the Orchestra to present, will offer an unfamiliar and unique Tainan City Orchestra style to the audience, adding an exotic flavor to the Orchestra itself. In regards to the collaboration with Chen You-Sho, the conductor of the Tainan City Orchestra has responded, " Eight years ago, there were already some discussions about Tainan City Orchestra and Chen You-Sho performing on the same stage and the eagerness for cooperation between the both parties has been mutual ever since. Fortunately, our reciprocal wishes have been granted and fulfilled this year and consequently the Winter Concert has been getting a lot of attention." Tainan City Orchestra indicated that concert attendees will experience Copland and Sibelius expressing a fondness for their home through Copland's Appalachian Spring and Sibelius's Karelia suites and sense Beethoven courageously and rigorously condemning dictatorships through his Egmont Overture.

Register Your Pet

Translated by Jeffery Kao From now on till Dec. 15th, 2013, bring your pets to register and plant the chip, no handling fee. You can save the registration fee, which is $1,000 for not neutered and $500 for neutered, and $300 chip plant fee. Plus, the pet can have their own ID, so you dont need to worry when the pet get lost. For more information, please contact Tainan City Animal Health Inspection and Protection Office at 06-2130958. During the period, the owner (at least 20 years old) can bring their dogs and cats, IDs, and a proof of rabies vaccination within a year to the four locations at Tainan City Animal Health Inspection and Protection Office or 31 coordinating registered agencies. (The latest news can be found at http://www.tnadc.gov.tw/home.php) In addition, Tainan City Animal Health Inspection and Protection Office remind the owner that if their registered pets died, remember to remove census from the hospital. If they are natural death or they have been died for a while, the owner can bring their IDs to Zhongyi office at Tainan City Animal Health Inspection and Protection Office for pets census removal.

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