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• Taiwan News Quick Take

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  FOOD SAFETY

  Japanese fish intercepted

  A shipment of more than 18,000kg of frozen fish from Japan was rejected at the border due to excessive levels of cadmium, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday. The batch of 18,450kg of frozen banded blue sprat would be destroyed or returned to its country of origin, the agency said in its weekly report on intercepted imports. The Japanese fish was among nine shipments stopped at Taiwan’s border over the past week, including fresh mangosteens from Thailand, cassava cakes from Indonesia, green beans from South Africa and black sesame from Myanmar, it said. Over the past six months, two shipments of frozen Japanese banded blue sprat imported by two different companies had been found to contain excessive levels of cadmium, prompting the FDA to increase the frequency of checks, it said. A 2,696kg batch of fresh mangosteens from Thailand imported by the Greather Fruit Trading Co was also found to contain excessive levels of cadmium, it said.

  

  Photo courtesy of the Food and Drug Administration

  NATIONAL DEFENSE

  Bureau names female chief

  The military is soon to welcome its first female Political Warfare Bureau chief, Lieutenant General Chen Yu-lin (陳育琳), a military source said. Chen, the director-general of the Army Command Headquarters’ Political Warfare Department, is to take up the post as head of the bureau on Sunday, the day Lieutenant General Yang An (楊安) retires from the position, the source said. The Political Warfare Bureau is responsible for psychological warfare to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s decades-long efforts to gain influence over individuals and organizations inside and outside of China, including in Taiwan. Chen’s current post is to be assumed by former military spokesman Major General Shih Shun-wen (史順文), who heads the Sixth Army Corps’ Political Warfare Department, the source said. As the position of chief of the Army Command Headquarters’ Political Warfare Department is reserved for a two-star general, Shih is soon to be promoted, they said.

  DIPLOMACY

  Taipei, Seoul mayors meet

  Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) on Monday met with Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon in the South Korean capital to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding on youth affairs cooperation between the two cities. At the meeting, Chiang expressed the hope of promoting mutual visits by talented young people from the two cities and sharing spaces in the cities’ innovation incubation centers. Commending Seoul’s “Happy Youth Project,” which aims to increase the city’s investment in its 3 million young citizens by nearly ninefold, Chiang said that Taipei would soon establish a youth affairs department, and he hoped to draw on Seoul’s experience to shape it. The youth policies adopted by Seoul include technical training to match post-graduation employment and increasing investment in housing for young people, Oh said. The city has also established a planning group to develop other policies oriented toward young people, he said. Chiang also spoke of the friendship between Taipei and Seoul, which are celebrating their 55th year as sister cities.
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