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#Taiwan How Taipei's roads are becoming greener

Taiwan aims to eliminate two-stroke scooters by 2020. This is due to the contribution of this type of motorcycles to overall air pollution in Taiwan. One of the cities implementing measures of replacement is Taipei City. Source: Focus Taiwan Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, with over 2,7 million population. This population is sitting within an area of 271 square kilometers, meaning it is a very densely populated city, with over 10,000 people/km² [i] . Taipei is not to be confused with New Taipei City, two separate administrative entities, with New Taipei surrounding Taipei City. TPC, area wise, is much smaller than New Taipei city, but much more densely populated: over 5 times as much! Taipei City is the richest city in Taiwan, with the biggest government budget and the richest population. Source: Wikivoyage In January this year, Taipei City Government, and more specifically, its Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a two-stroke motorcycle scrappag

#Entrepreneurship 10 rules of successful PowerPoint

Presentations are a daily struggle for many of us. Whether you are a student, a teacher, an entrepreneur, a researcher, or anyone else, there is a good chance you have to present something quite often. We are often provided with a computer, projector, a pointer (not always), and an audience who wants to be entertained. How you speak is another story, and will be covered in some other post. But what we always do for these presentations, is we prepare a PowerPoint to support our speech. I've seen many: at school, during my work with Hult Prize Foudnation, at conferences and meetings I attended. And sadly, hardly ever was the PPT what it should have been? Why PowerPoint? Whether you use windows or Mac, or just stay on your mobile devices, like phones or tablets, you do use powerpoint. The file format is supported by all the major devices. It is a standard presentation format nowadays. Many are trying to take over the position of leading visual presentation format, such as Prezi,