Official Twitter feed for news, events, and features from the Hakka Affairs Council, Taiwan.
Dec 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Three #Hakka language promotional videos released last month dealt with social issues such as #gender mainstreaming and civic participation which the younger generation are concerned with. bit.ly/33TGexO#Taiwan
In the first video, actress Hsu Li-wen (徐麗雯), a #Hakka descendant, portrays a pregnant CEO who speaks fluent English and Mandarin in the workplace but chooses to talk to her unborn baby privately in her mother tongue—Hakka.👉
Dec 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Vice President @ChingteLai promoted the #Hakka historic #trail—Raknus Selu Trail (樟之細路) by strolling a short section of the trail in Miaoli County. He expects that the general public could spend more time exploring the 380km-long national greenway. bit.ly/3lW8hTu
The name of Raknus Selu #Trail is a mixture of minority languages. Raknus is the term used by the Saisiyat and Atayal tribes to refer to “camphor tree,” and “Selu” means “small path” in the #Hakka language. bit.ly/2VT0hYS