The Taipei City Government called on the public to take advantage of its free shuttle bus service to visit ancestral tombs on the last day of the Tomb Sweeping Festival today.
The Taipei City Public Transportation Office offered free shuttle buses on five major routes to public cemeteries in Muzha (木柵), Nangang (南港), Chongde (崇德), Yangmingshan and the Military Cemetery. Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) inspected the traffic situation at the city’s Fude Public Cemetery (富德公墓) in Muzha yesterday morning and said he was satisfied to see smooth traffic as most people took the transit buses.
“I didn’t hear any complaints about the traffic in Muzha because the frequent bus service helped prevent traffic congestion,” Hau said at the MRT Taipei Zoo Station after the inspection yesterday.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
A large number of people were expected to visit their ancestral tombs today, so the public should utilize public transport to avoid getting stuck in traffic, Hau said.
Taipei City Police Department Traffic Division Director Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧) said traffic to the Fude Public Cemetery was smooth.
Crowds of tomb-sweepers on their way to the First Public Cemetery snarled traffic in Yangmingshan, especially along Xingyi Road.
Fang urged those heading to the cemetery in Yangmingshan today to take public transportation to avoid heavy traffic.
The shuttle bus service is being provided by the Capital Bus Co and ran with a frequency of about one bus every minute. The company also prepared free tools such as sickles and gloves for residents and a temporary babysitting area at the cemeteries for people’s convenience, said Lee Chien-wen (李建文), general manager of the company.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is to launch a new program to encourage international students to stay in Taiwan and explore job opportunities here after graduation, Deputy Minister of Education Yeh Ping-cheng (葉丙成) said on Friday. The government would provide full scholarships for international students to further their studies for two years in Taiwan, so those who want to pursue a master’s degree can consider applying for the program, he said. The fields included are science, technology, engineering, mathematics, semiconductors and finance, Yeh added. The program, called “Intense 2+2,” would also assist international students who completed the two years of further studies in
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) departed for Europe on Friday night, with planned stops in Lithuania and Denmark. Tsai arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Friday night, but did not speak to reporters before departing. Tsai wrote on social media later that the purpose of the trip was to reaffirm the commitment of Taiwanese to working with democratic allies to promote regional security and stability, upholding freedom and democracy, and defending their homeland. She also expressed hope that through joint efforts, Taiwan and Europe would continue to be partners building up economic resilience on the global stage. The former president was to first
Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amendment to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holidays (紀念日及節日實施辦法), which the parties jointly proposed, in its third and final reading today. The legislature passed the bill to amend the act, which is currently enforced administratively, raising it to the legal level. The new legislation recognizes Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28, the
The Taipei District Court sentenced babysitters Liu Tsai-hsuan (劉彩萱) and Liu Jou-lin (劉若琳) to life and 18 years in prison respectively today for causing the death of a one-year-old boy in December 2023. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said that Liu Tsai-hsuan was entrusted with the care of a one-year-old boy, nicknamed Kai Kai (剴剴), in August 2023 by the Child Welfare League Foundation. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 23 that year, she and her sister Liu Jou-lin allegedly committed acts of abuse against the boy, who was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries on Dec. 24, 2023, but did not
RSS