The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency on Saturday said that draft amendments to regulations on human medicines for veterinary use would allow pre-stocking of medicines by veterinarians to ensure animals’ medical rights.The Regulations Governing the Use and Management of Human Drugs on Dogs,
OUTSOURCING DUTIES: Requests received ranged from weeding around a relative’s tombstone to paying respects on behalf of a client to their deceased pets
More people are hiring someone to clean the graveyards of their ancestors and pay respects on their behalf during the Tomb-Sweeping holiday due to an increasingly aging population and lifestyle changes. Kuaibangpai (快幫派), a service platform that was created in October last year to run errands for pe
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) yesterday warned of aftershocks over the next three days after two earthquakes rocked Hualien County in eastern Taiwan early yesterday morning.The first quake, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck at 1:14am off the coast of Hualien, about 5.4 kilometers north-nort
Nearly 10,000 people are to participate in the road running and cycling races on the Danjiang Bridge (淡江大橋) this weekend, the Highway Bureau said yesterday. The 920m bridge, which connects New Taipei City’s Tamsui and Bali districts, was designed by the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid. The a
INDICATORS: If China does not stop its threats and continues to suppress the nation’s international space, then the meeting was a ploy to mislead the world, an official said
A national security official yesterday said that whether Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) potential meeting with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) represents goodwill from China or merely a “united front” strategy could be assessed using three key indicators. Cheng on
Peace is the only foundation of prosperity and the hope for Taiwan’s future, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.The party issued the remarks in response to a government official criticizing KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s (鄭麗文) upcoming China visit, which has a pre-arranged itinerary d
True peace is never achieved by bowing to or compromising with authoritarianism, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday.Lai made the remarks during the unveiling ceremony of the Gikong Presbyterian Church in Taipei as a transitional justice site.The church was the residence of former democracy a
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) in an interview with NBC News aired on Saturday said the party would be committed to deepening Taiwan-US ties while promoting peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.The Taiwan-US relationship has been invariably important to Taiwan, she
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using the Tomb-Sweeping Festival with a public ceremony to honor the Yellow Emperor (黃帝) is a “united front” activity, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. The ceremony was held by China’s United Front Work Department in Shaanxi Province yesterday, and
TRAINING DESTINATION: The naval fleet wrapped up a three-day port call in the Marshall Islands on March 12 and is believed to be headed to Belize
Taiwan’s naval goodwill fleet, which departed the Marshall Islands last month, passed through the Panama Canal on its way to another diplomatic ally in the region, footage from the Panama Canal Authority showed. The fleet — consisting of the navy’s fast combat support ship Panshi, Cheng Kung-class g
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday marked Tomb Sweeping Day by paying tribute to late president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Taiwanese independence activist Su Beng (史明). Tsai said in a Facebook post that she visited Lee’s resting place at a military cemetery in New Taipei City’s Sijhih Distric
Hanna Fairchild, center right, Taiwanese-American baseball player Stuart Fairchild’s wife, poses with the Wei Chuan Dragons’ Bryan Woodall, center left, and mascots at Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium yesterday ahead of the Dragons’ CPBL game against the TSG Hawks. Hanna Fairchild threw the ceremonial
Heavy traffic snarls up on a secton of the Chiang Wei-shui Memorial Freeway (Freeway No. 5) yesterday, the third day of the four-day Tomb-Sweeping long weekend.
CEREMONIAL POWERS: The KMT has criticized the Control Yuan, calling it a party tool for the DPP, and has declined to submit candidates for the next term
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) have announced that they would not be recommending candidates for the Control Yuan.The term of the sixth-term members of the Control Yuan expires on July 31. The Presidential Office has sent letters to political parties requesti
EXECUTIVE DICTATORSHIP: The convening of the CEC is stalled until at least five members are in place, with the Cabinet reportedly to recommend a new nominee list
The appointments of four Central Election Commission (CEC) nominees hinge on the Legislative Yuan to demonstrate sincerity, the Cabinet said yesterday after the opposition-dominated legislature vetoed its three nominees.The legislature on March 13 approved the Cabinet’s nomination of Michael You (游盈
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s (鄭麗文) upcoming China visit has a “pre-arranged itinerary” orchestrated solely by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an official familiar with cross-strait affairs said yesterday.Cheng on Monday said she has accepted an invitation from Chinese
More than 6,000 Taiwanese students have participated in exchange programs in China over the past two years, despite the Mainland Affairs Council’s (MAC) “orange light” travel advisory, government records showed.The MAC’s publicly available registry showed that Taiwanese college and university studen
PLANES, TRAINS: Taichung and Tainan airports had to halt services due to thunderstorms, while train tracks were covered with water in Miaoli and Hsinchu counties
Flooding caused by heavy rain has disrupted railway services in western Taiwan, with only single-track operations available between Miaoli County’s Miaoli and Jhunan (竹南) stations yesterday morning, Taiwan Railway Corp said.Taiwan Railway said that floodwater submerged tracks in Miaoli and Jhunan To
FILLING A GAP: The researchers said the mammals were known to live around Japan before going extinct, but their presence near Taiwan was not known before
A team of Taiwanese and Japanese scientists has identified sea lion fossils in waters around Taiwan proper in a breakthrough discovery that raises new questions.The team, which includes Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修), an associate professor of life sciences at National Taiwan University (NTU), and Naoki Kohn
RSS