By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday passed a motion asking the National Communications Commission （NCC） and the Ministry of Digital Affairs to increase capacity to maintain undersea cables after two connections between Taiwan proper and Lienchiang County were broken, allegedly by Chinese vessels.
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterInternet service in Lienchiang County should return to normal by the end of April after an international cable maintenance ship on April 20 begins repairing broken undersea connections around the Matsu Islands, the National Communications Commission said yesterday.
The legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday voted nine to five to grant preliminary approval to a draft statute establishing a state-run Taiwan Railway Corp.
The government is proposing transitioning the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) from an agency to a state-run corporation after major express train derailments in 2018 and last year exposed structural problems within the agency that have compromised safety.
The committee considered a version of the draft statute proposed by the Taiwan Railway Labor Union, the largest union in the agency, in addition to the government’s draft. The committee agreed to 16 of the 23 articles in the union’s proposal