SPORTS
Free Taipei Dome tickets
The contractor of the Taipei Dome yesterday said that starting on Friday, 13,000 free tickets for a test baseball game to be played in the new indoor stadium on Saturday next week would be available. Potential game-goers can get them on the ticketing platform tixcraft from 12pm on Friday until they run out or until 11:59pm on Friday next week, Farglory Group said. The game is to feature potential members of the Taiwanese team for next month’s BFA Asian Baseball Championship and next year’s U-23 Baseball World Cup. The test game on Saturday next week is one of the two days when the Taipei Dome is to hold games to test out the field and facilities.
WEATHER
Mercury to drop: CWA
A seasonal northeasterly wind system is forecast to bring temperatures in northern Taiwan below 20°C later this week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. The first wave of seasonal winds has affected northern Taiwan from yesterday afternoon before easing tomorrow, with a strengthened second wave due on Friday, driving daytime highs down to 19°C to 20°C in northern Taiwan and 21°C to 23°C elsewhere by Sunday, the CWA said. Despite the lower temperatures, the second wave would contain limited moisture, keeping the weather dry, it said. The first wave of will continue into today, bringing highs below 24°C in northern Taiwan, it said, but added that daytime temperatures in central and southern Taiwan would remain high at 31°C to 32°C today. Only eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula (恆春半島) would see brief showers today, while weather elsewhere is expected to stay dry, it said.
SOCIETY
Gas explosion injures two
Two employees at a noodle restaurant in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和) were injured on Sunday morning in an apparent gas explosion, which blew out the building’s windows and scattered glass into the street. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a report about a suspected gas explosion on Yongjhen Road at 8:52am. Upon arriving, emergency responders put out a fire that had burned a 2m2 area in the restaurant’s kitchen, it said. Two employees were injured in the blast: a 67-year-old woman who had second-degree burnsand a 35-year-old man who was cut by fragments of glass. Both remained conscious and were taken to Shuangho Hospital for treatment, the department said.
ARTS
Taiwan joins comics event
Eighteen Taiwanese publishers participated in the 57th Lucca Comics & Games in Italy that concluded on Sunday, the nation’s representative office in Italy said. Under the “Taiwanese deities pay a visit” theme, 30 Taiwanese comics, including The Funeral Concerto (送葬協奏曲) by Rimui (韋蘺若明) and Tale of the Cat Fairies (貓妖傳) by Aliyo (艾莉柚) took part. The Funeral Concerto depicts the Taiwanese funeral industry, with translation rights in Japanese, French, Italian, Thai and Czech having been sold, while Taoism and traditional Taiwanese religions are depicted in Tale of the Cat Fairies. Comic book artists Animo Chen (阿尼默) and Evergreen Yeh (葉長青) were there to promote the Italian versions of their works, Una breve elegia (小輓) and Mayfly Island (蜉遊之島), respectively, the office said. The past two winners of Taiwan’s annual Golden Comics Awards were also showcased.
Taipei and New Taipei City government officials are aiming to have the first phase of the Wanhua-Jungho-Shulin Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line completed and opened by 2027, following the arrival of the first train set yesterday. The 22km-long Light Green Line would connect four densely populated districts in Taipei and New Taipei City: Wanhua (萬華), Jhonghe (中和), Tucheng (土城) and Shulin (樹林). The first phase of the project would connect Wanhua and Jhonghe districts, with Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Chukuang (莒光) being the terminal stations. The two municipalities jointly hosted a ceremony for the first train to be used
MILITARY AID: Taiwan has received a first batch of US long-range tactical missiles ahead of schedule, with a second shipment expected to be delivered by 2026 The US’ early delivery of long-range tactical ballistic missiles to Taiwan last month carries political and strategic significance, a military source said yesterday. According to the Ministry of National Defense’s budget report, the batch of military hardware from the US, including 11 sets of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 64 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems, had been scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan between the end of this year and the beginning of next year. However, the first batch arrived last month, earlier than scheduled, with the second batch —18 sets of HIMARS, 20 MGM-140 missiles and 864 M30
Representative to the US Alexander Yui delivered a letter from the government to US president-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with a former Trump administration official, CNN reported yesterday. Yui on Thursday met with former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien over a private lunch in Salt Lake City, Utah, with US Representative Chris Stewart, the Web site of the US cable news channel reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter. “During that lunch the letter was passed along, and then shared with Trump, two of the sources said,” CNN said. O’Brien declined to comment on the lunch, as did the Taipei
A woman who allegedly attacked a high-school student with a utility knife, injuring his face, on a Taipei metro train late on Friday has been transferred to prosecutors, police said yesterday. The incident occurred near MRT Xinpu Station at about 10:17pm on a Bannan Line train headed toward Dingpu, New Taipei City police said. Before police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman surnamed Wang (王) who is in her early 40s, she had already been subdued by four male passengers, one of whom was an off-duty Taipei police officer, police said. The student, 17, who sustained a cut about
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