2415 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yuanying is a school teacher. She sent me a card from Alishan, Chiayi County. She says "the sea of the clouds is where you can encounter fairies and it may bring fortune and fantasy."

Yuanying is from Kaohsiung, a large city of 2.77 million people and is Taiwan's third most populous city. It is classified as a Gamma city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. It has many key industries such as manufacturing, steel production, oil refining, freight transportation, and shipbuilding. The Port of Kaohsiung in the largest and busiest harbour in Taiwan, and is also the home of the Republic of China Navy fleet headquarters. The Kaohsiung International Airport is the second busiest airport in number of passengers. High speed and conventional railways, as well as several national highways.

An interesting professional basketball team played out of Kaohsiung. The Kaohsiung Truth played one season in the ASEAN Basketball League in 2016. The Truth were the league's first Christian ministry team. The Truth went 5-15 in their first and only season, and went through two head coaches.

The ASEAN Basketball League competes in east and southeast Asia and was launched in 2009. It has nine teams in Hong Kong, Macau (2), Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan (2). Brunei and Thailand also had teams at one point but have since folded or relocated
on. The current champions are the CLS Knights Indonesia.

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