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Currently, the content of “Rotary Taiwan” monthly magazine are roughly classified into three categories:
“Rotary World News”, “District Reports”, and “Special Articles”. In “Rotary World News, there are “monthly
messages from RI President and Rotary Foundation Chair”, “Rotary projects around the globe”, and selected
pieces from Rotary magazine and Rotary website; in “District Reports”, there are news of service activities
and events of Rotary districts in Taiwan and a column “Clubs in action” containing the reports contributed by
Rotary clubs; in “Special Articles” there are non-Rotary articles contributed by Rotarians across Taiwan.

Aiming at a higher reading rate Editor Marine Po-Shin Lee and his team have greatly expanded the “Special
articles” section with more informative and interesting columns, such as “Comics on Rotary”, “Culture
in Taiwan”, “Candidate sites in Taiwan for world heritage”, “Artists”, “Great masters in ancient Chinese
literary”, “Historic buildings in Taiwan”, “Stories with faded photos”, “Gourmet talks”. Articles in these
columns and those from other Rotarian contributors are proved very popular.

By adding up these new columns, TR is trying to offer its readers with more diversified and knowledgeable
information in areas of life, history, art, culture, and other topics that may inspire Rotarians for a more creative
and colorful lives while enjoying updated Rotary information.
In addition, TR is also a bridge between Rotary members and various Rotary organizations in Taiwan.
Through the platform of the Rotary magazine, Rotarians can learn more not only about what these Rotary
organizations are, what they do, but also how to join in them to promote Rotary. Hopefully, TR will be able to
function more and provide better service to more Rotarians and readers in the future.

TR is traditionally published in a print version, and recently it has achieved impressively in its digitalization.
The magazine began to publish an electronic version (e-books) and downloadable PDF file of each issue since
July 2019 to facilitate the readers who prefer different way for reading. In 2020 it created a Facebook fan page
and has been providing the real-time information since to meet the needs of the new-generation Rotarians.
In the same year it began to distribute its e-newsletter weekly with selected articles that have published in
the monthly magazine. In 2021 it established a new and more attractive website to replace the old one. Both
the website and Facebook page not only enjoyed steadily increased pageviews, but also received universal
praises from our readers. The magazine is now planning and working to establish a cloud database to store
digitalized articles and important information from TR magazine to facilitate data searching of its subscribers
and Rotarians in Taiwan.

In the past two years, the good articles produced by our Editor Lee and his team have inspired and encourage
more contribution of the valuable pieces from Rotarians and have enriched our “Taiwan Rotary” monthly
magazine making it more interesting and readable. I sincerely thank them for their fruitful efforts. I also thank
the chair and members our Advisory Committee of Optimization for Website and the relevant staff member
for their hard work in achieving digitalization of TR magazine and making our website, Facebook page
and e-newsletter a truly important media platforms that provide the most updated information from Rotary
International in a real-time manner to Rotary members in Taiwan.

During my two-year term of chairman that will expire on June 30 this year, our TR magazine and association
have been progressing as planned, though COVID-19 pandemic has caused some disturbance. This is credited
to: 1) all directors, supervisors and committee members and their strong support; 2) the article contributors
and their excellent and timely works; 3) all the staff members of the association and their tirelessly efforts. In
addition, the encouragement from Rotarians from time to time is also an indispensable driving force.

Finally, I would like to thank PDG Kambo Yi-shen Kang, the founding chairman of the association, for
inviting me to participate in the operation of the association, which enable me to step into a whole new world
both in my career or Rotary journey and brings me a totally exciting chapter in my life.

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