‘NEW HEIGHTS’: President Tsai thanked the new premier’s predecessor, Su Tseng-chang, while Chen said that Taiwan has become an ideal nation for its inhabitantsBy Chen Cheng-yu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan yesterday planted its national flag in front of its first arctic research center in Longyearbyen, a town on Norway’s Spitsbergen Island, and also conducted a plaque unveiling ceremony to formalize that Taiwan’s arctic research group has a “place of their own.”
Minister Without Portfolio Chang Ching-sen (張景森) yesterday thanked the Polish academics from Nicolaus Copernicus University who helped establish the research station.
“We thank the Polish scholars for creating opportunities for the Formosan black bears to meet the arctic polar bears,” he said.
The center and the international research project leading to its establishment demonstrate Taiwan’s resolve to participate observation of the
By Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwan yesterday planted its national flag in front of its first arctic research center in Longyearbyen, a town on Norway’s Spitsbergen Island, and also conducted a plaque unveiling ceremony to formalize that Taiwan’s arctic research group has a “place of their own.”
Relieve Disaster Foundation chairman and Minister Without Portfolio Chang Ching-sen, front right, presents a flag to members of the National Fire Agency’s Taiwan Search and Rescue Team during a drill at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday. The four-hour interagency drill simulated preparing an airliner for an international earthquake rescue mission.