A Web site and art installation -- called the 'Bag's Wishes' -- were launched in Puli in central Nantou County Monday to mark the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake that devastated Taiwan on Sept. 21, 1999. The Web site and art installation were unveiled at the Paper Dome -- a white structure built of cardboard columns from Japan which lies along a river in the rural community of Taomi in Puli township -- to continue championing love and concern for others among local residents 10 years after the devastating earthquake. The ceremony was witnessed by Council of Cultural Affairs Minister Huang Pi-tuan and Japanese friends from Kobe, Japan, where the Paper Dome was originally built as a temporary chapel to replace a Cathlic church that was destroyed in the Kobe earthquake of Jan. 17, 1995. According to Liao Chia-chan, chairman of the Puli-based nonprofit New Homeland Foundation, which is building a network that links together the local communities affected by the September 1999 earthquake, the 'Bag's Wishes' story began in January 2005 when he and other community development leaders visited Kobe to take part in activities marking the 10th anniversary of the Kobe earthquake. After a fundraising drive launched by the Taiwanese delegation, Liao said, they presented a paper bag carrying donations and words of blessing to families of the Kobe earthquake victims, and they received another paper bag with similar contents to bring back to Taiwan. Learning that the makeshift church was soon to be torn down to make way for a new concrete structure, Liao proposed to the Japanese side that the unusual building be relocated to Taiwan to extend its existence. The rebuilt Paper Dome was officially inaugurated in Taomi on Sept. 21, 2008, the ninth anniversary of the 921 earthquake, and has since been a landmark in Puli. It has served as a platform to exchange community-building and post-earthquake reconstruction experiences, both within Taiwan and with communities in other countries, Liao said. The 921 earthquake, one of the deadliest in Taiwan's living history, killed some 2,500 people and shattered over 40,000 homes around Taiwan, including more than 6,200 in Puli alone. 