A: Hey, what are you reading?
B: I’m reading TED CEO Chris Anderson’s book “Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading.”
A: What’s it about?
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B: It’s about K-pop supergroup BTS leading their fans, dubbed their “army,” around the world to do charity.
A: BTS is always good at spreading such positive infection through social media.
A: 你在看什麼書?
B: 我在看TED總裁克里斯安德生的新書《慷慨的感染力:在善良被低估的年代,讓善意泛起漣漪》。
A: 這本書是關於什麼呢?
B: 是韓流天團防彈少年團BTS帶動全球粉絲「ARMY」行善的故事。
A: 他們一向善於運用社群來擴大感染力!
(By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Taiwan wants to lure higher-spending travelers from Southeast Asia as Chinese arrivals dwindle, a shift that could reshape the island’s tourism industry. Despite increasingly fraught relations across the strait, visitors from across Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular, are traveling to Taiwan in greater numbers than before the pandemic, first-quarter data from Taiwan’s Tourism Administration show. The number of Thai visitors has risen 12 percent from the same period in 2019, according to the travel body, while Singapore’s is up 10 percent and Malaysia’s has reached pre-COVID levels. Hotel revenues and the number of local travel agencies have returned to where they were
Stalls selling egg-shaped pancakes are often found on the streets or in night markets in Taiwan. These pancakes are cooked using molds to create shapes with the pancake batter. They are delicious traditional snacks with affordable prices. Egg-shaped pancakes are made with only four ingredients: flour, sugar, butter and egg. The recipe was created in the 1950s by a grocery store owner who made a batter using eggs which had broken upon delivery. He cooked it in an iron mold on a gas stove. The idea was quite successful because the finished product was delicious. 雞蛋糕是在台灣的路邊和夜市隨處可見的點心,是將麵糊倒入模具加熱煎成。雞蛋糕的原料只有麵粉、糖、奶油和雞蛋,起源於1950年代,據說是一位雜貨店老闆發明的,他把搬運時弄破的雞蛋做成麵糊,倒在加熱的鐵模中,就成了香甜可口的雞蛋糕。 mold
Lizzi Jordan, a psychology student at the University of London, experienced a complete life turn in 2017 due to severe food poisoning. On that day, Jordan and her sister got some takeout. Little did they know that the food contained a rare type of bacteria, and unfortunately, Jordan fell into a coma. Facing multiple organ failure, she might not have survived. Thanks to relentless efforts from doctors, Jordan finally woke up, but she had lost her eyesight. Her entire world was suddenly plunged into darkness. The shock and despair were beyond words. Jordan hit rock bottom for a while, but
A: Hey, what are you reading? B: I’m reading TED CEO Chris Anderson’s book “Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading.” A: What’s it about? B: It’s about K-pop supergroup BTS leading their fans, dubbed their “army,” around the world to do charity. A: BTS is always good at spreading such positive infection through social media. A: 你在看什麼書? B: 我在看TED總裁克里斯安德生的新書《慷慨的感染力:在善良被低估的年代,讓善意泛起漣漪》。 A: 這本書是關於什麼呢? B: 是韓流天團防彈少年團BTS帶動全球粉絲「ARMY」行善的故事。 A: 他們一向善於運用社群來擴大感染力! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)