DERELICTION OF DUTY: The Control Yuan found that the Executive Yuan had failed to regulate private resource extraction activities on public land, opening loopholes
The Control Yuan has censured the Executive Yuan for dereliction of duty and lack of law enforcement after a private firm was found extracting water on public land for several years without approval.The Control Yuan report issued earlier this month said Control Yuan members Chen Ching-chun (陳景峻), Pa
The National Immigration Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it had caught 124 people attempting to use forged documents to visit Taiwan since in September last year allowing Chinese nationals based overseas to apply for entry permits.The NIA’s revelation comes after unnamed immigration officials and trav
A group of Taiwanese business representatives and university professors specializing in semiconductors and advanced technology visited Oman earlier this month to explore potential collaborations, according to the Taiwanese representative office in the Middle Eastern nation.The delegation met with of
The Chinese government placed sanctions on seven companies yesterday in response to recent US announcements of military sales and aid to Taiwan.The sanctions come in response to the approval of the US government’s annual defense spending bill, which a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement sa
CLEANER AIR: PM10 and PM2.5 levels have fallen by 8 and 7 percent respectively, and nitrogen dioxide has gone down by 15 percent, the ministry’s statistics showed
The Ministry of Environment’s (MOENV) Air Quality Statistics issued on Thursday showed a general decrease in all pollutant density across the nation over the past five years.Department of Monitoring and Information Deputy Secretary-General Hu Ming-hui (胡明輝) said statistics over the past five years s
ISSUES: Families would rather forfeit their long-term care subsidies than send their loved ones away. It might also be unaffordable for some who already have caregivers
The latest poll showed that 73 percent of families disliked a government plan to transfer senior citizens with moderate cognitive decline to daycare centers from community-based ones, the Taiwan Alzheimer’s Disease Association (TADA) said yesterday.The most frequently cited reasons for the reluctanc
Taiwan Sugar Co (Taisugar) is to work closely with the government, contributing toward balancing domestic pork prices and facilitating the export of Taiwanese pork abroad, company chairman Wu Ming-chang (吳明昌) said yesterday, adding that the focus would be on Japanese and Singaporean markets.Taisugar
Taiwan Blood Service Foundation yesterday launched a blood drive targeting people with type A and type O blood to replenish reserve stocks amid a nationwide shortage in the months leading to the Lunar New Year.The blood drive began yesterday and would run through Jan. 27 next year, foundation execut
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced that it would make 200,000 doses of a protein-based Novavax vaccine targeting the JN.1 subvariant of COVID-19 available to the public from Wednesday next week.The vaccine was an alternative for those who previously had an adverse reaction to
CRIMEKaohsiung indicts 18Eighteen people were indicted by Kaohsiung prosecutors on Wednesday on suspicion of engaging in money laundering in online gambling platforms that allegedly earned them illicit profits estimated at NT$80.6 million (US$2.46 million). The prime suspect, a 41-year-old man surna
President William Lai, front, center, presents the commander of the army’s new Liangshan Base with additional funds to improve the food for personnel at the inauguration of the base yesterday. The president also toured the barracks for officers and soldiers, as well as the general training facilitie
Hsinchu City Councilor Lin Yin-che, front row, center, poses alongside others, holding spring banners that read “Brave Taiwan” at his office in Siangshan, Hsinchu City, yesterday. The words refer to the title of the national baseball team’s unofficial theme song and is to celebrate Taiwan’s victory
Taipei City Councilor Ying Hsiao-wei (應曉薇) and Sheen Ching-jing (沈慶京), founder and chairman of the real estate conglomerate Core Pacific Group, were both released on bail this afternoon after being indicted yesterday with Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on bribery and other charges.Yi
Three stages of traffic control are to be implemented for Taipei City’s New Year’s Eve party to be held in front of Taipei City Hall, the Taipei City Police Department’s Traffic Division said today.City Hall Road, from Songshou Road to Songgao Road, and New Renai Road, is to be blocked starting from
Content discovered on Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) hard drive comparing himself to Emperor Yongzheng was merely a joke in the form of a historical metaphor, former TPP legislator Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如) said today.Tsai was summoned twice as a witness in the Core Pacific City corru
Taiwan’s two major non-military exercises are to be unified into an urban resilience drill starting next year, President William Lai (賴清德) announced yesterday.The Minan disaster prevention drill and the Wanan air defense exercise are to be combined into the 2025 Urban Resilience Drill to improve Tai
Some areas around Taiwan, including in the south, could see temperatures drop to as low as 7°C early Sunday morning, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) has forecast.A strong continental cold air mass coupled with the effect of radiation cooling is expected to bring the cold weather to several
Taipei City Councilor Chen Chung-wen (陳重文) was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison today under the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例) for fraudulently obtaining nearly NT$3.7 million (US$112,000) from a government contract.Of the 8.5 years, six months are convertible to a fine at NT$1,000 a day.Chen, a membe
Former Taipei Deputy Mayor Pong Cheng-sheng (彭振聲) was among the first of those indicted with former Taipei mayor and Taiwan People Party’s (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on charges of bribery and corruption to be released on bail this morning as he left the Taipei District Court.It was expected that
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