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■ TRANSPORT

A million ride new MRT

Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) announced yesterday that more than 1 million passengers had taken free rides on the city's mass rapid transit system and 90 percent of the passengers had been satisfied with their trips. Since the Kaohsiung MRT's Red Line opened last Sunday, nearly 200,000 passengers have used the system each day, with the total for the week hitting 1 million yesterday morning. Chen said the numbers demonstrated the long-term aspirations for the system Kaohsiung residents have. Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp is allowing passengers to ride the new north-south Red Line for free during a one-month trial period that ends on April 6.



■ SCIENCE

Research teams lauded

Researchers at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology have made significant achievements in breeding and food technology recently, and hope the discoveries can help boost local industries. The school said its research team recently discovered a way to increase the growth rate of oysters by as much as 1cm to 2cm a month. The researchers said the waters around Pingtung made it an ideal place for oyster breeding and they hoped the team's achievement would help expand the local oyster industry. Another research team has scored several major successes in food technology research, including developing a highly nutritious seaweed grain as well as a cobia-based soya sauce, the latter developed in cooperation with a local breeding company, the school said. The university's president expressed hope that the researchers' achievements would help spur the development of related industries in the outlying island county.
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