ANIMAL TRADE
<strong>Thousands of species banned</strong>
An import ban on more than 8,000 species of live animals is to take effect on Wednesday next week, the Forestry Bureau said. Animals such as raccoons and the crested myna are to be banned from entering Taiwan without authorization from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the bureau said. The banned import list includes one mammal, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, totaling 8,478 species, it said, adding that they are being banned because they pose a threat to Taiwan’s endemic species or its agricultural produce. People caught importing any of the animals without authorization would face
Chinese Television System (CTS) on April 20 ran news tickers during a morning news program that falsely said: “War on the brink of erupting” in the Taiwan Strait, creating panic.
The next day, CTS broadcast another false news ticker that said: “Vessel explodes in Taipei Harbor; facilities and ships destroyed.”
Since these blunders, CTS has, more than once, misidentified the president and the vice president.
Senior managers and employees have resigned, many have been fined and the public has been left wondering how it is that CTS could make so many mistakes. Its level of credibility has taken a serious hit.
Credibility is
Lawmakers across party lines yesterday urged the National Communications Commission (NCC) to quickly draft a digital communications act to address increasing Internet fraud and other issues as they reviewed the nominees for three NCC commissioner positions at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee.
The Executive Yuan nominated National Chung Cheng University law professor Want Jiang-jia (王正嘉), Taiwan Institute of Economic Research associate research fellow Wang Yi-hui (王怡惠) and NCC Chief Secretary Chen Chung-shu (陳崇樹) to succeed three current NCC commissioners whose terms expire on July 31.
Lawmakers at the meeting asked the three nominees about their positions on issues the
A worker shortage and a lack of trained staff to operate digital broadcasting equipment were the primary reasons that the Chinese Television System (CTS) committed several errors in its news programs over the past month, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said yesterday.
Chen made the remarks at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, as several lawmakers were concerned about what the commission would do to reprimand CTS management.
The network had broadcast factual errors seven times since April 20. Significantly, it ran erroneous news tickers that day about New Taipei City being attacked by the Chinese People’s Liberation
While trying to cross a road to meet his girlfriend, a man in Taiwan was killed after he was hit by four cars in succession. This unfortunate tragedy happened on Monday (May 2) at 3am in Taipei, reported English newspaper Taiwan News. The man, surnamed Chuang, was crossing the road under the pouring rain but the traffic light had turned.