SOCIETY
Panda cub has sleepover
Taipei Zoo’s panda cub Yuan Zai (圓仔) stayed overnight with her mother, Yuan Yuan (圓圓), for the first time in weeks on Wednesday, zookeepers said. The zoo took the cub away from its mother a few days after it was born after Yuan Yuan slightly injured the cub’s leg. The pair were reunited on Tuesday for a few hours, and Yuan Zai was embraced by her mother and breastfed. Encouraged by the smooth reunion, keepers decided to let Yuan Yuan take care of the cub overnight. Yuan Zai, the first panda born in Taiwan, was born on July 7.
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POLITICS
DPP’s Su visits Bangkok
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) arrived in Bangkok yesterday to meet with Taiwanese businesspeople working in the kingdom. Su was welcomed at the airport by Representative to Thailand Henry Chen (陳銘政) and members of the Taiwanese business community. Su’s trip is aimed at showing support for Taiwanese businesspeople working in Thailand to consult with them on the party’s economic and trade policies, the DPP said in a statement. Thailand is home to around 150,000 Taiwanese businesspeople — the largest number in any Southeast or South Asian country, excluding China, Chen said. Su is accompanied by a delegation of more than 20 people, including party lawmakers and party officials. He and the delegation will return home on Sunday.
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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