Traffic control will be enforced around Taipei Stadium and Taipei Arena tomorrow for the evening’s closing ceremony of the Deaflympics.
Beining Road will be closed to traffic from 4pm until 12am. The sections of Bade Road surrounding the stadium and the arena will be partly closed from 4pm to 12am.
Flexible traffic controls will be enforced on the section of Dunhua N Road between Civic Boulevard and Nanking E Road from 9pm until 12am.
Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧), head of the Taipei City Police Department’s traffic division, said the parking lot inside the Taipei Arena and roadside parking space for scooters surrounding the Taipei Stadium and Taipei Arena would be closed from 4pm to 12am to prevent scooters from blocking the traffic before and after the ceremony.
The Department of Transportation encouraged people attending the closing ceremony to use public transportation. The department will provide free shuttle buses at Exit 9 of the Zhongxiao Dunhua MRT Station and Exit 5 of the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT Station before the ceremony from 5:30 pm until 7:30pm.
Free shuttle buses, available at the intersection of Bade Road and Dunhua S Road, will provide transportation to the MRT stations after the ceremony between 10pm and 11pm, the department said.
The closing ceremony of the Deaflympics will be held at 7:30pm at Taipei Stadium. An outdoor banquet, a cultural tradition in Taiwan in which chefs cook at an outdoor venue, will be the theme for the closing ceremony, with athletes invited to sample local delicacies such as beef noodle soup and steamed dumplings.
The closing ceremony will also feature performances including drumming shows, U-Theatre and a Taiwanese opera show by Ming Hwa Yuan Group.
Emile Sheng (盛治仁), CEO of the committee, said the banquet would move to an indoor venue at either Taipei Arena or Nankang Exhibition Hall if it rains. As both indoor venues are smaller than the stadium and therefore could not accommodate as many people, the committee said it would provide reimbursement to those who were unable to attend as a result.
“China is preparing to invade Taiwan,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois Wu (吳志中) said in an exclusive interview with British media channel Sky News for a special report titled, “Is Taiwan ready for a Chinese invasion?” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today in a statement. The 25-minute-long special report by Helen Ann-Smith released yesterday saw Sky News travel to Penghu, Taoyuan and Taipei to discuss the possibility of a Chinese invasion and how Taiwan is preparing for an attack. The film observed emergency response drills, interviewed baseball fans at the Taipei Dome on their views of US President
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) today issued a "tsunami watch" alert after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia earlier in the morning. The quake struck off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula at 7:25am (Taiwan time) at a depth of about 19km, the CWA said, citing figures from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. The CWA's Seismological Center said preliminary assessments indicate that a tsunami could reach Taiwan's coastal areas by 1:18pm today. The CWA urged residents along the coast to stay alert and take necessary precautions as waves as high as 1m could hit the southeastern
ECONOMIC BENEFITS: The imports from Belize would replace those from Honduras, whose shrimp exports have dropped 67 percent since cutting ties in 2023 Maintaining ties with Taiwan has economic benefits, Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials said yesterday, citing the approval of frozen whiteleg shrimp imports from Belize by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an example. The FDA on Wednesday approved the tariff-free imports from Belize after the whiteleg shrimp passed the Systematic Inspection of Imported Food, which would continue to boost mutual trade, the ministry said. Taiwan’s annual consumption of whiteleg shrimps stands at 30,000 tonnes, far exceeding domestic production, the ministry said. Taiwan used to fill the gap by importing shrimps from Honduras, but purchases slumped after Tegucigalpa severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a southwestern extension of the Sanying MRT Line from New Taipei to Bade District (八德) in Taoyuan, with a goal of starting construction by late 2026. The 4.03-kilometer extension, featuring three new stations, will run from the current terminus at Yingtao Fude Station (LB12) in New Taipei City to Dannan Station (LB14), where it will connect with Taoyuan’s Green Line, New Taipei City Metro Corp said in a statement. This extension will follow the completion of core Sanying Line, a 14.29-kilometer medium-capacity system linking Tucheng (土城), Sansia (三峽)
RSS