Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (
By allowing more recreational activities along the coast -- such as the use of jet skis, yachts and smaller sailboats -- Taiwan's coastline could become as popular as Florida's beaches or Australia's Gold Coast, Ma said.
"The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) promised to establish Taiwan as an `ocean country,' but never carried out any policies ?The government is still enforcing martial law on the coastline," Ma said in Chiayi County.
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Ma proposed allowing fishermen to operate recreational businesses and to make it easier for interested parties apply to operate helicopter tours.
Citing Kenting (
Ma also met with fishermen from Dongshih Fishing Port in Chiayi, signed a petition presented by fishermen and promised to give the fishing industry a 14 percent fuel subsidy.
Several Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters were on hand to protest Ma's planned "long-stay" visit to southern Taiwan.
"Ma's long stay plan is a fake. He is not qualified to run for the presidential election," they shouted.
Ma condemned the protesters' actions and urged DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (
"This kind of action is not reconciliation ... Running in the election with such tactics will only create unnecessary clashes," he said.
A total lunar eclipse coinciding with the Lantern Festival on March 3 would be Taiwan’s most notable celestial event this year, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said, urging skywatchers not to miss it. There would be four eclipses worldwide this year — two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses — the museum’s Web site says. Taiwan would be able to observe one of the lunar eclipses in its entirety on March 3. The eclipse would be visible as the moon rises at 5:50pm, already partly shaded by the Earth’s shadow, the museum said. It would peak at about 7:30pm, when the moon would
Taiwan’s Li Yu-hsiang performs in the men’s singles figure skating short program at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. Li finished 24th with a score of 72.41 to advance to Saturday’s free skate portion of the event. He is the first Taiwanese to qualify for the free skate of men’s singles figure skating at the Olympics since David Liu in 1992.
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday held a ceremony marking the delivery of its 11th Anping-class offshore patrol vessel Lanyu (蘭嶼艦), saying it would boost Taiwan’s ability to respond to Beijing’s “gray zone” tactics. Ocean Affairs Council Deputy Minister Chang Chung-Lung (張忠龍) presided over the CGA event in the Port of Kaoshiung. Representatives of the National Security Council also attended the event. Designed for long-range and protracted patrol operations at sea, the Lanyu is a 65.4m-long and 14.8m-wide ship with a top speed of 44 knots (81.5kph) and a cruising range of 2,000 nautical miles (3704km). The vessel is equipped with a
A KFC branch in Kaohsiung may be fined between NT$60,000 and NT$200 million (US$1,907 and US$6.37 million), after a customer yesterday found an entire AAA battery inside an egg tart, the Kaohsiung Department of Health said today. The customer was about to microwave a box of egg tarts they had bought at the fast-food restaurant’s Nanzih (楠梓) branch when they checked the bottom and saw a dark shadow inside one of them, they said in a Threads post. The customer filmed themself taking the egg tart apart to reveal an entire AAA battery inside, which apparently showed signs of damage. Surveillance footage showed
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