Taiwan News
Date: 2016-06-09
By: Chia Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Thursday marks the first day of the four-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday. President Tsai Ing-wen

(Image courtesy of 蔡英文Tsai Ing-wen Facebook page)

posted on Facebook early Thursday wishing everyone a happy holiday, along with a picture of her celebrating the festival with residents of a community in New Taipei City, making rice dumplings with the elderly.

The fifth year spending the Dragon Boat Festival with the town locals, Tsai on Thursday morning visited New Taipei’s Gongliao Township, along with Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Legislators Lo Chih-cheng, Chen Man-li, the party’s New Taipei City Chapter Chair Yu Tian, and former New Taipei’s Gongliao Township Mayor Chen Shih-nan.

The President later posted on her Facebook page a picture of her making rice dumplings with the community, and wished everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival.     [FULL  STORY]