“Taiwan: Waves of Wonder” is to be the country’s new tourism slogan for the next 10 years, the Tourism Administration said yesterday, adding that it would be showcased in commercials at the Olympic Games in Paris and other major cities and travel fairs around the world.The new slogan, logo and theme
Lawmakers at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday passed a motion to freeze ticket price hikes for train services to the east coast until Hualien County fully recovers from the devastating earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale last month. The committee was schedu
National Taiwan University (NTU) yesterday established a new college of international political economy that will be offering all courses taught in English at its Taipei campus.The International School of Politics and Economics was conceived in response to the growing importance of new technolog
Minister of Finance Chuang Tsui-yun (莊翠雲) protested against Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) designation of Taiwan as “Taipei,China,” at the bank’s 57th annual meeting, a ministry official who was part of Taiwan’s delegation said.The ADB’s annual meeting was held in Tbilisi, Georgia from Thursday las
NEW MILESTONE: The cooperation would help address critical issues in mitigating disasters and transcend boundaries, the MECO chair said
Taiwan and the Philippines yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance bilateral exchange and experience-sharing on landslide and debris flow disasters.The MOU, titled “Partnership on Landslide and Debris Flow Disaster Research,” was signed by Taiwanese Representative to the Phil
RED FACE: About 49 percent of Taiwanese cannot metabolize alcohol normally, causing flushes while drinking, which some mistakenly believe shows they can process alcohol
Drinking alcohol increases a person’s risk of developing at least seven types of cancer, and nearly half of Taiwan’s population is alcohol intolerant, meaning they are at greater risk of developing cancer from imbibing, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and an advocacy group said yesterday ahead of
Twenty-one percent of people with asthma in Taiwan do not go for regular medical follow-ups, despite the condition causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday, ahead of World Asthma Day.World Asthma Day, held yearly on the fir
Five people, including the head of a construction project, were indicted last week over the partial collapse of a residential building in the Dazhi (大直) area of Taipei’s Zhongshan District (中山) last year.On Sept. 7 last year, underground excavation work at a Kee Tai Properties Co (基泰建設) construction
RAILWAY DIPLOMACY: Former British representative to Taiwan Michael Reilly helped negotiate the loan, which the W&LLR said was four years in the making
A 50-year-old Alishan Forest Railway diesel-powered locomotive on loan to the UK carried its first group of passengers in Wales over the weekend.The DL-34 engine, on loan for an initial period of three years, is operating on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR), a narrow gauge heritage l
Two brothers from New Taipei City have been arrested on suspicion of purchasing more than NT$250,000 worth of damaged and unauthenticated NT$50 coins at a discount, and then exchanging them at Taipei MRT stations.The Taipei City Police Department’s Rapid Transit Division on Sunday said that it began
SEISMOLOGYTwo 5.9 quakes hit HualienTwo earthquakes measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale yesterday afternoon shook eastern Taiwan seven minutes apart, the Central Weather Administration, said. The first quake hit at 5:45pm, with its epicenter 26km south of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 15.6km, ag
Taiwanese expatriates and officials from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver hold placards at the BMO Vancouver Marathon on Sunday calling for support for Taiwan’s participation at the World Health Assembly.
People gather around hot air balloons shaped like Japanese cartoon character Hello Kitty, Tourism Administration mascot OhBear and others in Taitung County’s Luye Highland in an undated photograph. The Taitung County Government yesterday announced that this year’s Taiwan International Balloon Festiv
Independent reviewers estimate it is to cost more than NT$400 million (US$12.38 million) to reinforce sections of the MRT Circular Line after damage caused by last month’s earthquake, the New Taipei City Government said on Monday.During the magnitude 7.2 quake on April 3, 11 sections of the rail lin
Free rapid COVID-19 tests are to be available at all contracted pharmacies nationwide from Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Monday.To make use of existing stock and protect vulnerable populations, all 4,500 pharmacies contracted with the National Health Insurance Administrati
Taiwan Railway Corp (TRC) is to develop a new pricing scheme that would differ from ones reported by the media previously, to be announced in the second half of the year, Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Allen Hu (胡湘麟) said on Monday.Train fares have remained the same for 29 year
SOVEREIGNTY: A military aviation law would provide air defense units with rules for handling unidentified aircraft outside Taiwan’s airspace, an expert said
Taiwan should create a military aviation law to give legal protection to its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in counteracting Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) drones, National Defense University associate professor of law and military officer Lee Yen-chang (李彥璋) said on Saturday.The PLA
An increase in Taiwanese boats using China-made automatic identification systems (AIS) could confuse coast guards patrolling waters off Taiwan’s southwest coast and become a loophole in the national security system, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.Taiwan ADIZ, a Facebook page created
GOOD DIPLOMACY: The KMT has maintained close contact with representative offices in Taiwan and had extended an invitation to Russia as well, the KMT said
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) would “appropriately handle” the fallout from an invitation it had extended to Russia’s representative to Taipei to attend its international banquet last month, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday.US and EU representatives in Taiwan boycotted the event, and
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rebutted allegations of dishonest handling of donations, after Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) said on Thursday last week that the ministry had been dishonest about its cooperation with Lithuania and the Czech Republic in offering assis