Columbus, Taiwan ink sister-city pact

Columbus and Taichung, Taiwan signed a sister-city covenant on Tuesday. Mayors Jim Wetherington and Jason Hu signed the agreement at the weekly city council session.

The two cities agreed to share and update mutual development in cultural, economic and educational affairs.

More GPB News details of the delegation's visit are here.

Columbus: Taiwanese delegation visit on 9/11

The City of Columbus and Taichung City, Taiwan, will establish a "Sister City" pact on Tuesday, Sept., 11th, during a planned visit here.

Mayor Jim Wetherington, and Mayor of Taichung City, Jason C. Hu, will take part in the signing ceremony, to be held at a meeting of the Columbus City Council, an official statement released Thursday morning said.

Hu and the Taiwanese delegation will tour the city and visit several locations in Columbus during its two-day stay. The Taiwanese are set to speak on a local radio program, and visit several cultural sites, Columbus State University and The RiverCenter for the Performing Arts among them.

A host of economic, medical, cultural and tourism-affiliated attaches' are with the 14-member group, the statement said.

New whale sharks arrive in Atlanta

It's a big day at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, as two new whale sharks arrived this morning. The pair of whale sharks-the world's largest fish-were on a flight of eight-thousand miles from Taiwan. The new sharks arrive just over four months since the death of 'Ralph', a whale shark that died in January. The two new whale sharks will join a male at the Aquarium-'Norton', and two females-'Alice' and 'Trixie'. The new whale sharks have been given Asian names to honor their origins: 'Taroko' and 'Yushan'--named for a national park and a mountain in Taiwan.