Pingtung County is fully subsidizing healthy school lunches for all grade-school students starting next academic year, investing NT$820 million (US$25.98 million) annually and benefiting about 50,000 students, Pingtung County Commissioner Chou Chun-mi (周春米) said today.The policy is to cover all stud
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego yesterday said her city would continue deepening high-tech cooperation with Taiwan, as she arrived in Taiwan for a visit.Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) welcomed Gallego and her delegation to Taiwan with a banquet. Phoenix would continue to work closely wit
The Legislative Yuan is holding public hearings today and tomorrow regarding an impeachment motion raised by opposition parties against President William Lai (賴清德). This morning’s session marked the first impeachment public hearing in constitutional history, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator C
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tsai Yi-yu (蔡易餘) is set to be nominated by his party as its Chiayi County commissioner candidate after securing a decisive victory in the party's primary.In the primary, determined by opinion polls conducted by three polling firms last night, Tsai perfor
Hualien County prosecutors today questioned four people and searched the Guangfu Township (光復) office and home of its mayor over alleged negligence in evacuation duties during last year’s Mataian River (馬太鞍溪) flood that left 19 dead and five missing.The Hualien District Prosecutors’ Office directed
A forest fire that broke out in Yunlin County's Gukeng Township (古坑) early on Monday has been brought under control, but continued to burn sporadically today as firefighting teams struggled with the area's harsh terrain and lack of water.The Yunlin County Fire Department said the burned area had not
An inmate who went on the run while on medical parole from Yilan Prison was arrested last night in Taipei’s Wenshan District (文山), the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office and police said today.The 35-year-old man, surnamed Huang (黃), was serving a one-year sentence for drug-related offenses. A whistl
Taiwan continues to be affected by a cold air mass and radiative cooling effects that would lead to low temperatures after dark and sizable day-night temperature gaps.Temperatures remained chilly early this morning in low-lying areas of northern Taiwan, plunging as low as 4.9°C in Guansi Township (關
Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC) yesterday said it has installed a permanent memorial plaque to honor a man who was killed while trying to stop an attacker at Taipei Main Station last month.The plaque honoring Yu Chia-chang (余家昶) has been installed on a wall along the underground passage leading to
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday defended its plan to extend the high-speed rail (HSR) network to Yilan County, issuing a statement that said the project has clear benefits and would continue to be advanced in line with legal procedures.The statement was issued following p
EPIDEMIC THRESHOLD: Among hospital visits for flu-like illnesses, 9.7 percent sought treatment at emergency rooms, almost at the level defining an epidemic, it said
Hospital visits for flu-like illnesses increased by about 10 percent last week from a week earlier, with local flu activity expected to peak next month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday.Flu viruses were the most common pathogen spreading in the past few weeks, CDC Epidemic Intell
HEAVY METALS ISSUE: Six seaweed products had lead levels up to 4 times the maximum allowable and cadmium levels up to 50 times the limit, the FDA said
Tests of six seaweed products marketed toward young children and infants showed that they contained lead and cadmium in excess of legal limits, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, advising parents to not give them to their children.Chinese-language Mirror Media magazine last week
The Port of Kaohsiung was rated as one of the world’s top 10 container ports last year, despite a decrease in the number of containers it handled, Taiwan International Ports Corp (TIPC) said yesterday.The rating was conducted by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an international accredited registrar and cla
New measures aimed at making Taiwan more attractive to foreign professionals came into effect this month, the National Development Council said yesterday.Among the changes, international students at Taiwanese universities would be able to work in Taiwan without a work permit in the two years after t
Researchers have identified adaptive traits in cancer cells that help tumors resist immunotherapy drugs after extended targeted treatment, revealing new hurdles to effective cancer treatment.A research team at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University discovered that immunotherapy’s success rate for
NATIONAL INTERESTS: The US hopes that the TPP can set aside partisan differences and demonstrate a unified stance on defense issues, a source told the ‘Liberty Times’
The purpose of Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang’s (黃國昌) whirlwind visit to Washington this week was to reiterate that improving Taiwan’s national defense capabilities is an “urgent and non-deferrable” priority, a Washington-based source familiar with the matter said. The four-per
The Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted two Taiwanese and issued a wanted notice for Pete Liu (劉作虎), founder of Shenzhen-based smartphone manufacturer OnePlus Technology Co (萬普拉斯科技), for allegedly contravening the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and t
Taiwanese can file complaints with the Tourism Administration to report travel agencies if their activities caused termination of a person’s citizenship, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said yesterday, after a podcaster highlighted a case in which a person’s citizenship was c
Lawmakers yesterday failed to reach a consensus on expanding redevelopment of military dependents’ villages, with opponents saying the plan would use taxpayer money to enrich certain people. Cross-party caucus deliberations on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-proposed amendment to Article 3 of th
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