Guam Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrero yesterday arrived in Taiwan for her first visit since taking office as head of the US territory’s government in 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said.
During her stay from yesterday through Saturday, Guerrero is to meet with President William Lai (賴清德) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), and attend banquets hosted by the two, the ministry said in a news release.
Guerrero and Lai last met in December last year, when the president made an overnight stopover in the territory as part of a seven-day trip to the South Pacific — his first official visit abroad after taking office in May last year.
Photo: Chen Yun, Taipei Times
During that visit, Lai had compared Taiwan and Guam to “family members,” citing the deep cultural connections between the two sides, and their shared values of democracy, freedom and human rights.
The Guam governor is to visit the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and meet with several mayors, MOFA said.
In a separate release yesterday it welcomed the arrival of a EU parliamentary delegation.
The delegation consisted of European Parliament members Reinis Poznaks and Beatrice Timgren, as well as policy adviser Jens Vornoe, it said.
It also welcomed the arrival of a British Labour Party delegation led by MP Navendu Mishra.
The delegation includes British lawmakers Tahir Ali, Paula Barker, Gill Furniss and Connor Naismith, it said, adding that it is the first time they visit Taiwan except for Mishra.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7pm yesterday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The epicenter of the temblor was at sea, about 69.9km south of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 30.9km, it said. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County’s Changbin Township (長濱), where it measured 5 on Taiwan’s seven-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 4 in Hualien, Nantou, Chiayi, Yunlin, Changhua and Miaoli counties, as well as
Taiwan is to have nine extended holidays next year, led by a nine-day Lunar New Year break, the Cabinet announced yesterday. The nine-day Lunar New Year holiday next year matches the length of this year’s holiday, which featured six extended holidays. The increase in extended holidays is due to the Act on the Implementation of Commemorative and Festival Holidays (紀念日及節日實施條例), which was passed early last month with support from the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party. Under the new act, the day before Lunar New Year’s Eve is also a national holiday, and Labor Day would no longer be limited
The first tropical storm of the year in the western North Pacific, Wutip (蝴蝶), has formed over the South China Sea and is expected to move toward Hainan Island off southern China, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said today. The agency said a tropical depression over waters near the Paracel and Zhongsha islands strengthened into a tropical storm this morning. The storm had maximum sustained winds near its center of 64.8kph, with peak gusts reaching 90kph, it said. Winds at Beaufort scale level 7 — ranging from 50kph to 61.5kph — extended up to 80km from the center, it added. Forecaster Kuan Hsin-ping
COMMITMENTS: The company had a relatively low renewable ratio at 56 percent and did not have any goal to achieve 100 percent renewable energy, the report said Pegatron Corp ranked the lowest among five major final assembly suppliers in progressing toward Apple Inc’s commitment to be 100 percent carbon neutral by 2030, a Greenpeace East Asia report said yesterday. While Apple has set the goal of using 100 percent renewable energy across its entire business, supply chain and product lifecycle by 2030, carbon emissions from electronics manufacturing are rising globally due to increased energy consumption, it said. Given that carbon emissions from its supply chain accounted for more than half of its total emissions last year, Greenpeace East Asia evaluated the green transition performance of Apple’s five largest final
RSS