Love and Chunghwa Post overcome plot by communist China

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Acting Taipei County Commissioner Lin Si-yao, second right, and other guests congratulate Yang Chih-yuan -- a junior-high school student in Panchiao -- as the Chunghwa Post Co issued stamps featuring his painting on the International Day of Peace yesterday.
PHOTO: HO YU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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On International Day of Peace yesterday, the Chunghwa Post Co issued stamps featuring a young boy's painting that was at the center of a heart-wrenching tale of international intrigue and postal services.

The painting was disqualified from becoming a commemorative peace stamp issued by the UN because, it is thought, of China's objections. But like a philatelical phoenix, rising from the ashes of the young boy's shattered dreams, the painting has been resurrected in a series of 1 million NT$15 stamps, available at your local post office.

It is the first design by a student to be published as a stamp in Taiwan. In the past, only the works of established artists have been used.

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