SOCIETY
Alishan open for weddings
The annual group wedding under the Sacred Tree on Alishan is to be held in mid-October, with 10 couples to be selected to take part in the event, the organizer said on Tuesday. Couples that have been married for less than a year or are planning to tie the knot soon can register to take part in the two-day event from Oct. 14, the Alishan National Scenic Area Administration said. The wedding will start with a two-day tour of the Alishan National Scenic Area and will include Alishan specialty dishes, a Tsou Aboriginal wedding ceremony and photography services, the organizer said. Registration is open until Aug. 15. The 10 couples will be selected through a draw, which will be streamed live on the event’s Facebook page on Aug. 16.
SECURITY
Female officer gets stipend
Chang Wei-jung (張維容), a native of Yunlin County, is the first Taiwanese female officer to receive a scholarship from the International Association of Women Police, the Yunlin County Police Bureau said on Monday. The association aims to strengthen, unite and raising the profile of women in law enforcement and each year offers its International Recognition and Scholarship Program to a serving female officer from outside North America. Chang works at the National Police Agency’s International Affairs Division in Taipei, Yunlin County Police Bureau Commissioner Hsu Hsi-jung (許錫榮) said. She is a veteran with 20 years on the force dedicated to the prevention of domestic violence and child abuse, Hsu said. Besides teaching other officers how to investigate and handle domestic violence cases, she has taken on numerous assignments throughout her career, including preventing human trafficking. She is the pride of Yunlin County and the nation’s police force, Hsu said.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7pm yesterday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The epicenter of the temblor was at sea, about 69.9km south of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 30.9km, it said. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County’s Changbin Township (長濱), where it measured 5 on Taiwan’s seven-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 4 in Hualien, Nantou, Chiayi, Yunlin, Changhua and Miaoli counties, as well as
Taiwan is to have nine extended holidays next year, led by a nine-day Lunar New Year break, the Cabinet announced yesterday. The nine-day Lunar New Year holiday next year matches the length of this year’s holiday, which featured six extended holidays. The increase in extended holidays is due to the Act on the Implementation of Commemorative and Festival Holidays (紀念日及節日實施條例), which was passed early last month with support from the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party. Under the new act, the day before Lunar New Year’s Eve is also a national holiday, and Labor Day would no longer be limited
The first tropical storm of the year in the western North Pacific, Wutip (蝴蝶), has formed over the South China Sea and is expected to move toward Hainan Island off southern China, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said today. The agency said a tropical depression over waters near the Paracel and Zhongsha islands strengthened into a tropical storm this morning. The storm had maximum sustained winds near its center of 64.8kph, with peak gusts reaching 90kph, it said. Winds at Beaufort scale level 7 — ranging from 50kph to 61.5kph — extended up to 80km from the center, it added. Forecaster Kuan Hsin-ping
COMMITMENTS: The company had a relatively low renewable ratio at 56 percent and did not have any goal to achieve 100 percent renewable energy, the report said Pegatron Corp ranked the lowest among five major final assembly suppliers in progressing toward Apple Inc’s commitment to be 100 percent carbon neutral by 2030, a Greenpeace East Asia report said yesterday. While Apple has set the goal of using 100 percent renewable energy across its entire business, supply chain and product lifecycle by 2030, carbon emissions from electronics manufacturing are rising globally due to increased energy consumption, it said. Given that carbon emissions from its supply chain accounted for more than half of its total emissions last year, Greenpeace East Asia evaluated the green transition performance of Apple’s five largest final
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