‘SUPER HEROES’: Benefits for retired dogs must be secured, as many are uninsurable due to their age or health, the chairwoman of the Taiwan Working Dog Association said
All national service dogs are to be mandatorily insured from next year, with the Ministry of Agriculture covering the annual insurance premium of more than NT$13,000 each.Taiwan has 292 national service dogs dedicated to quarantine, drug detection, search and rescue, intelligence gathering, policing
Taiwan’s prisons are overcrowded, with some facilities operating beyond capacity due to a rise in the number of inmates, particularly for fraud-related offenses, Agency of Corrections Director Chou Hui-huang (周輝煌) said yesterday.Asked at a legislative committee meeting about prison overcrowding, Cho
A 23-year-old Taichung man vowed to drink more water after his heavy consumption of sugary tea landed him in hospital with a kidney infection and sepsis.The man, surnamed Lin (林), used to drink two cups of half-sugar oolong tea while working at a food stall, where he often had to wait a long time be
Nearly 10 percent of 877 fruits, vegetables and agricultural products selected for pesticide residue tests in March and April were non-compliant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday.The 82 non-compliant products, or 9.4 percent of the total, included strawberries imported from J
Ten people have been detained in connection with a scheme that used rented accounts on Shopee, a Singapore-based e-commerce platform, to sell over NT$300 million (US$10 million) in counterfeit goods from China in Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.The CIB said the sc
DETERRENCE: Taiwan should be alert to China’s attempts to blur identities and track the activities of frequent travelers to or long-term residents of China, Hung Chin-fu said
The government should identify Taiwanese who frequently travel to China or are long-term residents there and place them on a high-risk list for tracking and identification, as part of the strategy to deter China’s “united front” tactics, a political scientist said.National Cheng Kung University poli
A three-day international workshop on humanitarian assistance and disaster response hosted by the Global Cooperation and Training Framework (GCTF) started in Taipei yesterday to promote cross-border partnerships, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said.Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Chief Rep
The US has begun taking concrete naval action to deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan, bolstering joint defense in the Indo-Pacific region, Institute for National Defense and Security Research research fellow Su Tzu-yu (蘇紫雲) said on Saturday.Su made the comment in response to US Admiral Stephen K
Sales of emergency rations have been on the rise, as public interest in emergency preparedness has increased, an official said on Sunday.Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hu Jong-i (胡忠一), who has long promoted the purchase of emergency rations, said that local companies have introduced more than 50 typ
‘SELF-DEFENSE’: Calling Iran a ‘dictatorship,’ Maya Yaron said Israel needs to act now before it is too late and Tehran has an atomic bomb
Israel’s top envoy to Taiwan yesterday defended her country’s decision to attack Iran, saying the ongoing military actions are an “act of self-defense” on Israel’s part before Iran builds atomic bombs.“For us, defending our country is something that we must do, and we needed to act on time before it
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lin Dai-hua (林岱樺) and nine others were yesterday indicted on corruption charges for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for assistants’ salaries.The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office accused Lin of using the names of relatives to embezzle NT$14.73 mi
An F-5 Tiger II jet, front, yesterday lands on the runway beside the newer F-16V jet during the filming of a commemorative video ahead of the retirement of the F-5E/F Tiger II fleet next month, at Hualien Air Base. The Ministry of National Defense has announced that a decommissioning ceremony is to
Officials from the Chinese Professional Baseball League, Ministry of Education and Sports Administration hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday to announce ticket sales and rosters for the league’s upcoming All-Star Game, to be held on July 21. The game is to feature league All-Stars facing off
A Bengal tiger named Er-niu — a new addition to Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Zoo on loan from Leofoo Village Theme Park in Hsinchu County as part of an exchange agreement reached in April — is pictured in an undated photograph. The Shoushan Zoo yesterday announced that Er-niu would make her first public app
A three-day international workshop on humanitarian assistance and disaster response today began in Taipei to promote cross-border partnerships, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said.Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Chief Representative Kazuyuki Katayama and National Science and Technology Cou
Commemorative silver coins celebrating Taiwan’s first international baseball championship win are available for preorder, the central bank said today.Taiwan won the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) Premier12 on Nov. 24 last year.Purchases are limited to one coin per person at NT$1,600
Active-duty service dogs are to be provided insurance, with premiums fully subsidized by the Ministry of Agriculture, the ministry told a news conference in Taipei today. Nan Shan General Insurance Co has launched a specialized insurance policy for active-duty service dogs in public agencies that co
Israel's top envoy in Taiwan today said that her country's decision to attack Iran was an "act of self-defense.”"For us, defending our country is something that we must do, and we needed to act on time before it's too late, before they [Iran] have a nuclear atomic bomb," Israel Economic and Cultural
Next month has been designated “national unity month” to boost civilian preparedness and emergency response measures, with urban resilience drills to be held across the country, a national security official said. With the slogan “Team Taiwan, Stronger Together,” the core principle of national unity
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