台東富岡新村

去綠島和蘭嶼的遊客通常都是從富岡漁港出發,而此處的富岡新村住的大多為浙江人.

大陳島撤退
台東富岡漁民新村村民來自浙江大陳島撤退來台的漁民.原本他們住在空軍基地旁,空軍基地擴建時他們搬到海邊建立現在的新村.該村村民在浙江當地就使用閩南話,所以來台灣比較容易適應,後代多與同村村民或其他閩南語人士通婚.柯受良就是1955年隨父母從浙江撤退來富岡定居的.
富岡新村

柯受良的故鄉
駕駛摩托車飛越萬里長城的柯受良是中國人的驕傲,當然更是該村的驕傲.柯受良的兒子柯有倫是台灣知名藝人.
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Toronto is world’s best city to live in, Economist study says

Toronto is the world’s best city to live in, according to a study of major metropolises by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

And Montreal is the second-best, with Stockholm, Amsterdam and San Francisco rounding out the top five.

The two Canadian cities topped the overall scoring in the 2015 Safe Cities Index published this week by the EIU, a unit of The Economist magazine. It is based on a ranking of 50 major cities by a new study of safety along with past rankings based on liveability and cost of living. Cities were further sorted according to past country rankings based on business environment, degree of democracy and food security.

Vancouver, which often scores highly in global rankings of this kind, was not included in the survey; nor was any other Canadian city.

THE GLOBAL TOP 10

Toronto
Montreal
Stockholm
Amsterdam
San Francisco
Melbourne
Zurich
Washington, D.C.
Sydney
Chicago

THE 10 SAFEST CITIES

Tokyo
Singapore
Osaka
Stockholm
Amsterdam
Sydney
Zurich
Toronto
Melbourne
New York

Airbnb to begin collecting Chicago hotel tax beginning Feb. 15

Airbnb, the company that lets people rent everything from apartments to treehouses, will begin collecting and remitting hotel taxes in Chicago starting Feb. 15, the company announced Friday.

The move follows that of Amazon.com, which said last week that it would collect sales tax from Illinois shoppers beginning Feb. 1, in compliance with a new state law.
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S.F. Democrats want Airbnb to pay back taxes

Add the San Francisco branch of the Democratic Party to those formally calling for Airbnb to pay its back taxes.

The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, the local Democratic Party’s governing body, voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a resolution calling for Airbnb and other short-term rental companies to pay back taxes to the city. Opponents of legislation that legalized short-term rentals in the city, which Mayor Ed Lee signed in October, estimate Airbnb owes San Francisco $25 million for not collecting the hotel tax over the past few years.
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