Chunghwa Post yesterday reminded the public that while Taiwanese are now allowed to send masks to first and second-degree relatives overseas, export permits are needed to do so, and many nations have temporarily stopped accepting mail from Taiwan.
The company said that 111 nations or territories around the world are not accepting mail from Taiwan due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Italy, Germany, India, the United Arab Emirates, Greece and Hawaii, but international express service providers such as FedEx Corp, United Parcel Service (UPS) and DHL International can still handle such deliveries.
FedEx’s Web site states that it continues to operate to and within impacted areas, as local conditions and restrictions allow, and it is adhering to all regulations and guidelines from government authorities related to the containment of COVID-19.
DHL said it is continuing to deliver goods and packages to China, except for Hubei Province and other locations regulated by the Chinese government, as well as Hong Kong and Macau.
“In order to ensure operational continuity and to keep connecting the world with a high-quality service, effective 1st April 2020, we will temporarily and until further notice levy an Emergency Situation Surcharge to all Time Definite International [TDI] shipments,” it said.
The surcharge would cover part of its increased operating costs and the necessary air network adjustments during the crisis, it added.
UPS said that it was continuing to deliver to locations around the world, where permitted.
Chunghwa Post said many people went to post offices yesterday to inquire about sending masks to overseas relatives, and some did not know that they needed to apply for export permits from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Those who did know about the procedures mostly chose to send their masks via international express delivery or international small packet (ePacket) services, which would help the packages reach their destinations faster, the company said.
The government banned the export of masks until the April 30, but on Monday last week Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced that as of yesterday, Republic of China citizens would be allowed to send up to 30 adult masks every two months to close relatives living abroad.
An essay competition jointly organized by a local writing society and a publisher affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might have contravened the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said on Thursday. “In this case, the partner organization is clearly an agency under the CCP’s Fujian Provincial Committee,” MAC Deputy Minister and spokesperson Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said at a news briefing in Taipei. “It also involves bringing Taiwanese students to China with all-expenses-paid arrangements to attend award ceremonies and camps,” Liang said. Those two “characteristics” are typically sufficient
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
The Central Weather Administration has issued a heat alert for southeastern Taiwan, warning of temperatures as high as 36°C today, while alerting some coastal areas of strong winds later in the day. Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門) and Pingtung County’s Neipu Township (內埔) are under an orange heat alert, which warns of temperatures as high as 36°C for three consecutive days, the CWA said, citing southwest winds. The heat would also extend to Tainan’s Nansi (楠西) and Yujing (玉井) districts, as well as Pingtung’s Gaoshu (高樹), Yanpu (鹽埔) and Majia (瑪家) townships, it said, forecasting highs of up to 36°C in those areas
RSS