SCHOOL:
Teens Unplugged to answer questions about studying abroad
High school seniors from the international community who are interested in studying abroad are invited to participate in the Teens Unplugged event to be held on April 25, in which recent graduates from US universities discuss their lives as students in the US. The event also gives teenagers an opportunity to talk with US college graduates and ask questions about college life. This free event, to be held at 1F, 16, Lane 118, Zhongcheng Rd Sec 2, is co-sponsored by Impact Youth Center, the Community Services Center and Taipei International Church. To register, send an e-mail to teensunplugged@gmail.com or call the Community Services Center.
WORK:
Kaohsiung pledges to cut foreign workers
The Kaohsiung City Government pledged on Thursday to cut back on the number of foreign workers in the city to save jobs for locals, saying that the city’s unemployment rate is estimated to have climbed past the national 5.75 percent average to break the 6 percent mark. Kaohsiung City Director of Labor Affairs Chung Kung-chao (鍾孔炤) made the statement after Kaohsiung City Councilor Lin Kuo-cheng (林國正) expressed concern over rising unemployment in the southern Taiwan port city. Quoting statistics from the Council of Labor Affairs and the city’s Bureau of Labor Affairs, Lin said the average national effective employment rate among people seeking jobs was 38 percent last year, while in Kaohsiung the figure was only 27 percent. In February, the effective employment rate among job seekers in Kaohsiung fell to 10 percent, also much lower than the national average of 22 percent for that month, he said. The figures show that there are fewer work opportunities in Kaohsiung than in the northern part of country, Lin said, urging the city bureau to take measures to protect the employment rights of local citizens.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government in retaliation for President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments suggesting that China should have a territorial dispute with Russia, an information security company said today. The hacker group, NoName057, recently launched an HTTPs flood attack called “DDoSia” targeting Taiwanese government and financial units, Radware told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). Local tax bureaus in New Taipei City, Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan were mentioned by the hackers. Only the Hsinchu Local Tax Bureau site appeared to be down earlier in the day, but was back
PROXIMITY: Prague is closer to Dresden than Berlin is, so Taiwanese firms are expected to take advantage of the Czech capital’s location, the Executive Yuan official said Taiwan plans to boost cooperation with the Czech Republic in semiconductor development due to Prague’s pivotal role in the European IC industry, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) said. With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) building a wafer fab in the German city of Dresden, a Germany-Czech Republic-Poland “silicon triangle” is forming, Kung said in a media interview on the weekend after returning from a visit to Prague. “Prague is closer to Dresden than Berlin is, so Taiwanese firms are expected to take advantage of the Czech capital’s location,” he said. “Taiwan and Prague have already launched direct flights and it is
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