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The Health Promotion Administration (HPA) and the Taiwan Stroke Society (TSS) yesterday released a stroke risk assessment chart, consisting of eight main risk factors, to help people evaluate if they have a high risk of having a stroke, while also introducing a new slogan for people to use to quickly spot signs of a stroke.
HPA Deputy Director-General Wu Chao-chun (吳昭軍) said as World Stroke Day is Oct. 29, the HPA has teamed up with the TSS to introduce a stroke risk assessment chart.
Referencing the stroke risk scorecard released by the US National Stroke Association, the risk assessment chart lists eight
Passport applications nearly double with new design
By Lu Yi-hsuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Passport applications have nearly doubled since the release of a new design in January, with more than 90,000 applications received since then, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
The ministry on Jan. 11 released a new passport design that removed the English-language words “Republic of China” from the cover but retained the Chinese-language equivalent and featured the word “Taiwan” more prominently.
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 last year, which restricted international travel, the number of passport applications dropped to about 800 per day, but that number has grown to an average of 1,354 per day since the ministry began issuing the new passport, it said.
Taipei, April 27 (CNA) Applications for Taiwanese passports almost doubled in the first four months of the year after the new passport design was rolled out, an official from the Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA) said Tuesday.