People yesterday flock to the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in the city’s Cianjhen District on the final day of the Creative Expo Taiwan. This year’s event, themed “Resonance Island,” was the first edition of the annual expo held outside Taipei. Featuring 500 domestic and foreign creative brands and intellectual property licensees, the 10-day expo attracted more than 500,000 visitors, the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs said.
The nation has sufficient energy reserves, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday, dispelling concerns over energy disruption after China announced it would hold live-fire drills in waters surrounding Taiwan from today to Sunday.
The drills are in retaliation for US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The planned exercises stoked fears that energy shipments could be delayed and put Taiwan’s energy supply at risk.
The ministry said in a statement that the government has accumulated energy reserves for local consumption through state-run companies.
All vital energy stocks exceed regulatory safety levels, it said.
As building up energy reserves is
Seven large prizes in the receipt lottery for January and February have not yet been claimed, including three worth NT$10 million (US$337,610) each, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.
The three unclaimed NT$10 million prize-winning uniform invoices, as they are formally called, were among 11 special prizes drawn for the first two months of the year, and carried the number 18927486, the ministry said.
They were all issued in Kaohsiung, including one for a NT$76 food purchase at MLD shopping mall in the city’s Cianjhen District (前鎮), the ministry said.
One was issued for NT$139 at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Sanmin District
The SKM Park outlet operated by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store Co in Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen District is pictured yesterday. The outlet, which features 220 stores and 50 exclusive brands, begins trial operations today. The company said it expects revenue of NT$5 billion (US$180.4 million) and 7 million to 8 million customers in its first year of operation.
Following the Dec. 18 referendums, one of the hottest political issues has become whether Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County should be merged, and whether more special municipalities should be created.
There are opinions on both sides, and each has its own point.
However, a question seems to be missing in the overall discussion: Should Taiwan consider relocating its capital, or at least consider setting up secondary capitals?
The idea of relocating the capital has been advocated repeatedly by politicians such as former Taichung mayor Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) and former Changhua County commissioner Cho Po-yuan (卓伯源), but the Executive Yuan did not