LABOR
Dairy rules to change
Employers in the dairy industry soon are to be able to hire foreign workers, a labor official said, citing a consensus reached at a regular policy meeting held on Oct. 19. The Ministry of Labor and the Council of Agriculture reached a consensus at the meeting, but details of the opening — including the ratio of foreign workers to Taiwanese and the size of businesses that would qualify to hire foreigners — will not be available until a meeting next month, ministry Workforce Development Agency section head Kung Kuei-lan (龔桂蘭) said. The news of the opening came after labor officials, experts, workers and employer representatives reached an agreement in June to open abattoir work to foreign laborers. Both industries have faced personnel shortages due to the working hours, difficult work environments and high-risk nature of the jobs.
ENTERTAINMENT
Taiwanese films nominated
Two Taiwanese films have been nominated for Hawaii International Film Festival awards this year, the Ministry of Culture said on Tuesday. Director Sunny Yu’s (于瑋珊) drama The Kids (小孩) was nominated for the best narrative feature, while director Li Nien-hsiu’s (李念修) documentary Hebei Taipei (河北-台北) received a nomination for best documentary feature award. The Kids is about two young lovers who struggle to support their family after being catapulted into parenthood at a young age. Hebei Taipei is a memoir about the director’s father, a former soldier whose family was torn apart during the Chinese Civil War and who was brought to Taiwan. The winners are to be announced on Nov. 15. The annual Hawaii International Film Festival opens tomorrow and runs through Nov. 22 in Honolulu.
Yangmingshan National Park authorities yesterday urged visitors to respect public spaces and obey the law after a couple was caught on a camera livestream having sex at the park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) earlier in the day. The Shilin Police Precinct in Taipei said it has identified a suspect and his vehicle registration number, and would summon him for questioning. The case would be handled in accordance with public indecency charges, it added. The couple entered the park at about 11pm on Thursday and began fooling around by 1am yesterday, the police said, adding that the two were unaware of the park’s all-day live
Fast food chain McDonald's is to raise prices by up to NT$5 on some products at its restaurants across Taiwan, starting on Wednesday next week, the company announced today. The prices of all extra value meals and sharing boxes are to increase by NT$5, while breakfast combos and creamy corn soup would go up by NT$3, the company said in a statement. The price of the main items of those meals, if ordered individually, would remain the same. Meanwhile, the price of a medium-sized lemon iced tea and hot cappuccino would rise by NT$3, extra dipping sauces for chicken nuggets would go up
Yangmingshan National Park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) nature area has gone viral after a park livestream camera observed a couple in the throes of intimate congress, which was broadcast live on YouTube, drawing large late-night crowds and sparking a backlash over noise, bright lights and disruption to wildlife habitat. The area’s livestream footage appeared to show a couple engaging in sexual activity on a picnic table in the park on Friday last week, with the uncensored footage streamed publicly online. The footage quickly spread across social media, prompting a tide of visitors to travel to the site to “check in” and recreate the
Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-ching (林宜敬) yesterday cited regulatory issues and national security concerns as an expert said that Taiwan is among the few Asian regions without Starlink. Lin made the remarks on Facebook after funP Innovation Group chief executive officer Nathan Chiu (邱繼弘) on Friday said Taiwan and four other countries in Asia — China, North Korea, Afghanistan and Syria — have no access to Starlink. Starlink has become available in 166 countries worldwide, including Ukraine, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in the six years since it became commercial, he said. While China and North Korea block Starlink, Syria is not
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