The government will invest NT$64.3 billion into the electrification of city buses, Premier Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) said Thursday. The government aims for all city buses in the country to be electric by 2030, but there are currently still 9,400 diesel buses in use nationwide, Chen said. The government h
Reservoirs in Hsinchu and Keelung are now at roughly 90 percent capacity following heavy rainfall from Typhoon Mawar, the Northern Region Water Resources Office said Thursday. Taoyuan’s Shihmen Reservoir has also received 18.4 million tons of rainfall, which is equivalent to 16 days of residential a
MORE WARNINGS: If the US company does not clarify and solve issues with its frozen berries, the FDA might extend an import suspension implemented last month, it said
The Kaohsiung Department of Health yesterday said it fined Costco NT$4.5 million (US$146,265) over contaminated frozen strawberries, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that although the US company had filed an improvement plan, an import suspension on frozen berries could remain.Three
WAITING IT OUT: Twenty-two domestic flights were canceled yesterday, leaving 330 travelers stranded on Green Island and 478 people stranded on Orchid Island
Air and sea traffic between Taiwan proper and outlying islands was disrupted yesterday as Typhoon Mawar edged toward the country, with 10 ferry routes suspended and 22 domestic flights canceled, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said.Thirty-five ferry journeys were suspended yesterda
Thirty-two percent of retailers targeted in an undercover survey sold cigarettes to buyers wearing school uniforms last year, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday.Out of 663 convenience stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and betel nut stalls surveyed by the Consumers’ Foundation
Forcefully shaking an infant is physical abuse, and can result in long-term disabilities, brain injury or death, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said on Monday.Parents or caregivers holding down an infant’s limbs, arms, shoulder or chest tightly, or shaking their body vigorously in an atte
About 220,000 people test positive for suspected cancer in screenings each year in Taiwan, but about 20 percent never receive follow-up tests or treatment, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Tuesday, adding that it would allocate NT$517 million (US$16.8 million) of National Health Insurance
SUNFLOWER ALUM: Lin Fei-fan said he wants to win so the legislature would have one more seat that embraces the global voice and has confidence in Taiwan’s future
Vice President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday presented young leaders who the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has nominated for next year’s legislative elections, including DPP Deputy Secretary-General Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆), a former Sunflower movement leader.Lin is to contest Taipei’s Third Electoral D
LEAKING TO CHINA: An academic said the source of genetic data leaks is the Chinese machines used for gene sequencing, raising national security concerns
Taiwan’s laws should be amended to help prevent genetic data from leaking to China and to establish a domestic genetic testing industrial chain, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lin Tai-hua (林岱樺) said yesterday.Precision medicine has become a global trend in the past few years, while Ta
Lawmakers yesterday passed the third reading of amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act (少年事件處理法), which would bolster protections for young people detained by police or facing judicial procedures.The amendments would bolster protections for young people from confinement and handcuffing, and help pre
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday approved ELTA TV’s applications to launch three temporary channels to air the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September, along with two other new sports channels.The network broadcasts mainly on Chunghwa Telecom’s multimedia-on-demand system
Two visiting New Zealand politicians yesterday said that they were impressed by Taiwan’s resilience and development in the face of the constant threat from China.In an interview with the Central News Agency (CNA), Brooke van Velden, deputy head of the ACT New Zealand party, said that the trip was in
The Macanese government said it plans to declare the Taiwan-owned Sun Yat-sen Memorial House a heritage site, which would give the Chinese territory priority to buy the property when it is sold.The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) in September last year said it was considering selling the property if
Fifth-grade student Chiang Ko-hsin, right, who was born in Taiwan to an immigrant mother, yesterday holds up a congratulatory message from Taitung County Commissioner Yao Ching-ling, left. Chiang, who has won five national competitions in wrestling, won this year’s President’s Education Award for he
Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je looks through binoculars at Shuangkou Beach in Kinmen County yesterday. Ko, who is the party’s presidential candidate, proposed that a bridge be built to link the outlying county to the Chinese city of Xiamen.
People practice rowing at a port where fishing boats, back, are tied to brace for Typhoon Mawar in Itoman, Japan, yesterday. The typhoon appeared to be losing force as it headed toward Okinawa after largely skirting Taiwan.
Protesters on Wednesday gathered outside the legislature to demand that cigarettes be made illegal, after health risk assessments were only conducted on heated tobacco products (HTPs) for the latest changes to tobacco law.To mark World No-Tobacco Day, which is held every May 31, New Taipei City Volu
The sea warning for Typhoon Mawar might be lifted this evening, the Central Weather Bureau said, although squalls are still expected in the northern and eastern parts of the country.If the storm speeds up, weakens or turns toward the east sooner than expected, the warning could be lifted earlier, it
Taiwan would still open to the importation of Canadian beef from cattle older than 30 months, despite receiving mostly negative public feedback, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday.The FDA last month announced it was to lift the ban, as Canada in February obtained “negligible ri
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