Taiwan’s Dark Village Sees the Light – Caroline Gluck

The Amis tribe, an indigenous people of Taiwan, is going to have electricity, which causes different views. From BBC News:

High-tech Taiwan is one of the world’s most wired societies and one of the globe’s largest economies.

So it is something of a surprise to discover that there is still one place where people live – along Taiwan’s sparsely-populated east coast – which is not connected to the electricity grid and has no access to power….[Full Text]

[Image from BBC News]

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