TAIWAN:

Built during the height of the Cold War to shelter supply boats from Chinese shells, one of Taiwan's most well-known wartime attractions last weekend echoed with a different sound - cellos and violins for the annual Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival.

The Zhaishan Tunnel on Kinmen, which sits on the Chinese coast next to the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou, was hewn by hand out of tough granite in the 1960s and originally designed for military purposes, sitting right on Taiwan's frontline with China.

Kinmen has been controlled by Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, and was regularly bombarded with artillery by China's military, though today Kinmen is a popular tourist destination. Over two days last weekend, the tunnel hosted six shows with 200 people attending each o

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