SPORTS
Free Taipei Dome tickets
The contractor of the Taipei Dome yesterday said that starting on Friday, 13,000 free tickets for a test baseball game to be played in the new indoor stadium on Saturday next week would be available. Potential game-goers can get them on the ticketing platform tixcraft from 12pm on Friday until they run out or until 11:59pm on Friday next week, Farglory Group said. The game is to feature potential members of the Taiwanese team for next month’s BFA Asian Baseball Championship and next year’s U-23 Baseball World Cup. The test game on Saturday next week is one of the two days when the Taipei Dome is to hold games to test out the field and facilities.
WEATHER
Mercury to drop: CWA
A seasonal northeasterly wind system is forecast to bring temperatures in northern Taiwan below 20°C later this week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. The first wave of seasonal winds has affected northern Taiwan from yesterday afternoon before easing tomorrow, with a strengthened second wave due on Friday, driving daytime highs down to 19°C to 20°C in northern Taiwan and 21°C to 23°C elsewhere by Sunday, the CWA said. Despite the lower temperatures, the second wave would contain limited moisture, keeping the weather dry, it said. The first wave of will continue into today, bringing highs below 24°C in northern Taiwan, it said, but added that daytime temperatures in central and southern Taiwan would remain high at 31°C to 32°C today. Only eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula (恆春半島) would see brief showers today, while weather elsewhere is expected to stay dry, it said.
SOCIETY
Gas explosion injures two
Two employees at a noodle restaurant in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和) were injured on Sunday morning in an apparent gas explosion, which blew out the building’s windows and scattered glass into the street. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a report about a suspected gas explosion on Yongjhen Road at 8:52am. Upon arriving, emergency responders put out a fire that had burned a 2m2 area in the restaurant’s kitchen, it said. Two employees were injured in the blast: a 67-year-old woman who had second-degree burnsand a 35-year-old man who was cut by fragments of glass. Both remained conscious and were taken to Shuangho Hospital for treatment, the department said.
ARTS
Taiwan joins comics event
Eighteen Taiwanese publishers participated in the 57th Lucca Comics & Games in Italy that concluded on Sunday, the nation’s representative office in Italy said. Under the “Taiwanese deities pay a visit” theme, 30 Taiwanese comics, including The Funeral Concerto (送葬協奏曲) by Rimui (韋蘺若明) and Tale of the Cat Fairies (貓妖傳) by Aliyo (艾莉柚) took part. The Funeral Concerto depicts the Taiwanese funeral industry, with translation rights in Japanese, French, Italian, Thai and Czech having been sold, while Taoism and traditional Taiwanese religions are depicted in Tale of the Cat Fairies. Comic book artists Animo Chen (阿尼默) and Evergreen Yeh (葉長青) were there to promote the Italian versions of their works, Una breve elegia (小輓) and Mayfly Island (蜉遊之島), respectively, the office said. The past two winners of Taiwan’s annual Golden Comics Awards were also showcased.
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
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 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
IN FULL SWING: Recall drives against lawmakers in Hualien, Taoyuan and Hsinchu have reached the second-stage threshold, the campaigners said Campaigners in a recall petition against Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) in Taichung yesterday said their signature target is within sight, and that they need a big push to collect about 500 more signatures from locals to reach the second-stage threshold. Recall campaigns against KMT lawmakers Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), Yang Chiung-ying (楊瓊瓔) and Lo Ting-wei (羅廷瑋) are also close to the 10 percent threshold, and campaigners are mounting a final push this week. They need about 800 signatures against Chiang and about 2,000 against Yang. Campaigners seeking to recall Lo said they had reached the threshold figure over the
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