By the end of next month, Taiwan will be the first nation in the world where broadband service coverage reaches 100 percent of its territory, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
The commission has been pursuing the goal since last year, and will meet it when the broadband connection service will be made available to residents of the last 46 villages in the nation's remote areas.
The commission said that these villages either had absolutely no Internet service or had only low-speed Internet connections.
The infrastructure was installed by Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信) and Taiwan Fixed Network (TFN,台灣固網), two of the nation's dominators in the telecom industry.
Originally, the construction of broadband facilities in the 46 villages was scheduled to be completed last month.
Haocha Village (
The commission noted that it had already completed the construction of broadband facilities in the 45 other villages by the middle of last month.
Based on figures included in the commission's presentation yesterday, the entire project cost approximately NT$96.5 million (US$2.92 million).
NCC commissioner Hsieh Chin-nan (
Hsieh added that the project not only solves the problem of broadband service, but also helps solve other problems, such as regular phone service and mobile phone service.
Two township chiefs also came to the meeting yesterday, where government officials and telecom operators reviewed the execution of the project and the use of the general telecom fund.
Bao Shui-sheng (包水生), chief of the Sandimen Township (三地門) in Pingtung County, said that while the broadband service is now available in every village, the government should also try to offer opportunities for residents to learn how to use a computer.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching