Four Chinese fishing vessels were expelled from restricted waters on Monday, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said in a statement yesterday.
The coast guard said that it had been made aware of the presence of Chinese vessels at 3:13am on Monday.
Reports said that boats were spotted 27 nautical miles (50km) from the Port of Taichung — but still within Taiwan’s territorial sea baseline of 24 nautical miles — by Taiwanese fishers.
Photo courtesy of a reader
By 6am on Monday, coast guard patrols discovered two Chinese fishing boats within the territorial waters 40 nautical miles from Hsinchu City’s Siangshan District (香山).
The boats, which were not fishing, were expelled to waters outside of Taiwan’s territorial sea baseline, the CGA said.
Two more Chinese boats were discovered at about 1pm the same day about 30 nautical miles from Taichung’s Songbo Fishing Harbor (松柏漁港), or about 17 nautical miles from Taiwan’s territorial sea baseline, it said.
The boats, which were also not fishing, were expelled to waters beyond the baseline, the CGA said.
As Chinese fishing vessels have been periodically discovered in the waters near Taichung, the coast guard said it would increase random patrols to ensure the safety of Taiwan’s waters.
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 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
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
RSS