Coast Guard Administration personnel yesterday morning joined Chinese rescuers to search for a Chinese fisher who fell overboard near Lienchiang County (Matsu), a day after Taiwanese and Chinese crews launched a separate search for the crew of a boat that capsized near Kinmen County.
The coast guard deployed vessels early yesterday to assist in a search-and-rescue mission involving a Chinese fisher who fell overboard while apparently walking on the edge of his boat.
Coast guard personnel based in Lienchiang were made aware of the incident at 12:30am by the Lienchiang Economic Development Department.
Photo courtesy of the Coast Guard Administration via CNA
A 26-year-old fisherman working on the Min Lian Yu No. 60911, a Chinese fishing vessel, is believed to have fallen overboard while walking around the perimeter of the boat’s deck on Thursday afternoon, a source said.
The fisherman lost his footing about 5km east of Lienchiang County’s Sanlian Islets (三連嶼) east of Beigan Island (北竿).
Others on the boat initially attempted to locate the man on their own, to no avail, before reporting the incident to Chinese authorities, the source said.
China reported the case to Taiwan, which sent coast guard vessels to the area to assist in search-and-rescue operations, Matsu Coast Guard Captain Hung Wen-chuan (洪文泉) said.
The coast guard expects to work with Chinese authorities on the mission for 72 hours, Hung said.
Meanwhile, the Kinmen Coast Guard deployed ships to help China search for the six crew members of the Chinese fishing boat Min Long Yu 61222, which capsized and sank about 2km southwest of Dongding Island (東碇島) on Thursday.
Dongding Island is the southernmost of Kinmen’s islands, about 26km south of the main island.
The coast guard said the boat had ventured about 500m into Taiwan’s prohibited waters, in which the coast guard is authorized to control the activity of foreign vessels.
Since the joint rescue effort started on Thursday, four crew members have been pulled from the water, with two of them having died.
Search efforts were still under way for the remaining two crew members.
Beijing could eventually see a full amphibious invasion of Taiwan as the only "prudent" way to bring about unification, the US Department of Defense said in a newly released annual report to Congress. The Pentagon's "Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2025," was in many ways similar to last year’s report but reorganized the analysis of the options China has to take over Taiwan. Generally, according to the report, Chinese leaders view the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) capabilities for a Taiwan campaign as improving, but they remain uncertain about its readiness to successfully seize
Taiwan is getting a day off on Christmas for the first time in 25 years. The change comes after opposition parties passed a law earlier this year to add or restore five public holidays, including Constitution Day, which falls on today, Dec. 25. The day marks the 1947 adoption of the constitution of the Republic of China, as the government in Taipei is formally known. Back then the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) governed China from Nanjing. When the KMT, now an opposition party in Taiwan, passed the legislation on holidays, it said that they would help “commemorate the history of national development.” That
HORROR STORIES: One victim recounted not realizing they had been stabbed and seeing people bleeding, while another recalled breaking down in tears after fleeing A man on Friday died after he tried to fight the knife-wielding suspect who went on a stabbing spree near two of Taipei’s busiest metro stations, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said. The 57-year-old man, identified by his family name, Yu (余), encountered the suspect at Exit M7 of Taipei Main Station and immediately tried to stop him, but was fatally wounded and later died, Chiang said, calling the incident “heartbreaking.” Yu’s family would receive at least NT$5 million (US$158,584) in compensation through the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp’s (TRTC) insurance coverage, he said after convening an emergency security response meeting yesterday morning. National
Taiwan has overtaken South Korea this year in per capita income for the first time in 23 years, IMF data showed. Per capita income is a nation’s GDP divided by the total population, used to compare average wealth levels across countries. Taiwan also beat Japan this year on per capita income, after surpassing it for the first time last year, US magazine Newsweek reported yesterday. Across Asia, Taiwan ranked fourth for per capita income at US$37,827 this year due to sustained economic growth, the report said. In the top three spots were Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong, it said. South
RSS