Tainan decided to temporarily suspend an “English teaching service”, which broadcasted messages by garbage trucks, because there are many other policies that need to deliver to residents. As dengue fever and enterovirus spread throughout the city during these years, the garbage trucks’ “English teaching ” was replaced by hygiene policy promotions in Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai.
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TAINAN, Taiwan — An “English teaching service” — messages broadcast by garbage trucks in southern Taiwan’s Tainan City for the past few years and once a hot news item covered by foreign media — has been suspended now for more than six months, city officials said yesterday in response to queries from curious residents.
“The city government decided to temporarily suspend the service because it has so many other policies it needs to deliver to residents,” Environmental Protection Bureau chief Chang Huang-chen said.
As contagious diseases such as dengue fever and enterovirus spread throughout the city last year and this year, the city decided to replace the garbage trucks’ “English time” with city policy promotions in both Vietnamese and Thai, for the benefit of foreign spouses who do not understand Chinese.
—from ChinaPost
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/tainan/2008/09/05/173351/Tainan%2Dgarbage.htm
