Taiwan’s president became the first to begin a Lunar New Year tour in the south-east as she offered solidarity with Hualien and positive thoughts on the economy and cross-straits relations in her New Year’s Address
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/17
By: David Spencer, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) broke with tradition
Tsai visiting a temple. (By Wikimedia Commons)
yesterday by becoming the first President to start their New Year’s tour of the country in Taitung.
The President will be traveling across the country over the next three days to hand out red envelopes. And she became the first President to begin the tour in the south-east of the country, with Taitung’s Tianhou Temple () her first stop.
A large crowd estimated at more than 4,000 queued to receive New Year’s greetings from the President along with a red envelope. The envelopes, which each contain a single NT$1 coin, are meant to symbolize good fortune for the year ahead.
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