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"text": "Tainan City located in south Taiwan, was the first city in Taiwan to build “an eldercare center”.[...]There are 24,797 people in Sigang District, and the geographically centralized location is good for the elderly living there, and the percentage of population of the elderly there is 18.22% (Ministry of Interior of Taiwan, 2011), which met the standard of an aged society (14%).",
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"text": "A LAND APPROPRIATION case would be presently unfolding in Tainan, with plans by the city government to expand a highway in Sigang District protested by local residents. Highway expansion plans will destroy not only farmland, but also historic sugar railway originally constructed during the Japanese colonial period to transport sugar from the fields to sugar mills and trees with historic value.",
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"ref": "2019, “Tainan to present 12 dowry gifts to Lin Chi-ling, groom”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 2020-08-09",
"text": "The gifts also include sesame oil from Shanhua (善化) and Sigang (西港) districts, salt from Cigu (七股), Dongcheng soy sauce and Chengkung soy sauce from Sinhua (新化), plum vinegar from Nansi (楠西) and white gourd tea bricks from the West Central District (中西區).\nIn addition, the gifts include a set of silk bedsheets and pillowcases, which represent a wish for the newlyweds to sleep well at night, dried longans and longan honey produced in Dongshan District (東山) that signify a wish for the birth of a son, Puli-produced lappa and soft rush products from Sigang District (西港), which are to be given to Akira’s parents.",
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"text": "A LAND APPROPRIATION case would be presently unfolding in Tainan, with plans by the city government to expand a highway in Sigang District protested by local residents. Highway expansion plans will destroy not only farmland, but also historic sugar railway originally constructed during the Japanese colonial period to transport sugar from the fields to sugar mills and trees with historic value.",
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