Tigerair Taiwan will add three new routes between Taichung and Japan and South Korea in July, the airline announced Wednesday, buoyed by growing demand as the travel industry rebounds from the doldrums of the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline said at its annual shareholders meeting that it will launch new routes between Taichung and Nagoya, Taichung and Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, and Taichung and Busan next month, which will bring the number of routes it operates to 38. The new routes come as Tigerair Taiwan, Taiwan’s only budget airline, continues to benefit from a resurgence in the travel industry in the past 12 months following three difficult years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tigerair Taiwan said its revenue in the first five months of 2024 was up 50 percent year-over-year, and its first quarter revenue of NT$4.25 billion (US$131.24 million) was up 64 percent from the previous year. Also in the first quarter, its operating profit was NT$1.24 billion, up 124 percent from a year earlier. It had net income of NT$861 million and earnings per share of NT $1.92, helping offset deficits run up during the pandemic and pushing its book value per share higher to NT$11.35. Launched in 2014, Tigerair Taiwan now flies to 27 destinations in Asian countries and areas, including Japan, South Korea, Macau, Thailand and Vietnam.
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A Taiwanese woman on Sunday was injured by a small piece of masonry that fell from the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican during a visit to the church. The tourist, identified as Hsu Yun-chen (許芸禎), was struck on the forehead while she and her tour group were near Michelangelo’s sculpture Pieta. Hsu was rushed to a hospital, the group’s guide to the church, Fu Jing, said yesterday. Hsu was found not to have serious injuries and was able to continue her tour as scheduled, Fu added. Mathew Lee (李世明), Taiwan’s recently retired ambassador to the Holy See, said he met
A BETRAYAL? It is none of the ministry’s business if those entertainers love China, but ‘you cannot agree to wipe out your own country,’ the MAC minister said Taiwanese entertainers in China would have their Taiwanese citizenship revoked if they are holding Chinese citizenship, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said. Several Taiwanese entertainers, including Patty Hou (侯佩岑) and Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜), earlier this month on their Weibo (微博) accounts shared a picture saying that Taiwan would be “returned” to China, with tags such as “Taiwan, Province of China” or “Adhere to the ‘one China’ principle.” The MAC would investigate whether those Taiwanese entertainers have Chinese IDs and added that it would revoke their Taiwanese citizenship if they did, Chiu told the Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper
The Chinese wife of a Taiwanese, surnamed Liu (劉), who openly advocated for China’s use of force against Taiwan, would be forcibly deported according to the law if she has not left Taiwan by Friday, National Immigration Agency (NIA) officials said yesterday. Liu, an influencer better known by her online channel name Yaya in Taiwan (亞亞在台灣), obtained permanent residency via marriage to a Taiwanese. She has been reported for allegedly repeatedly espousing pro-unification comments on her YouTube and TikTok channels, including comments supporting China’s unification with Taiwan by force and the Chinese government’s stance that “Taiwan is an inseparable part of China.” Liu
FATE UNKNOWN: The owner of the dog could face a fine of up to NT$150,000 and the animal could be euthanized if he cannot show that he can effectively supervise it A pit bull terrier has been confiscated by authorities after it yesterday morning bit a motorcyclist in Taipei, following footage of the same dog in a similar attack going viral online earlier this month. When the owner, surnamed Hsu (徐), stopped at a red light on Daan District’s (大安) Wolong Street at 8am, the dog, named “Lucky,” allegedly rolled down the automatic window of the pickup truck they were riding in, leapt out of the rear passenger window and attacked a motorcyclist behind them, Taipei’s Daan District Police Precinct said. The dog clamped down on the man’s leg and only let go
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