Taipei, Sept. 15 (CNA) A week of lectures and other activities kicked off in Taipei Monday in celebration of the first Tang Prize, an international academic award established by Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin in 2012 with the aim of supplementing the Nobel Prize.
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