Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) The Water Resources Agency (WRA) defended proposals for a 17.3-kilometer-long tunnel from Nanshi Creek (南勢溪) in New Taipei's Wulai District to Shihmen Reseivor in Taoyuan Sunday amid concerns over the project's environmental and social costs.
Taipei, May 29 (CNA) Taiwan reported 76,605 new COVID-19 cases and another single-day high of 145 deaths on Sunday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The Ciaotou District Court has sentenced a farmer to one year and four months in prison and fined him NT$30,000 (US$1,043) for modifying an airsoft gun to make it more dangerous.
The ruling can be appealed.
Police officers from the Cishan Precinct found the gun during a search at the farmer’s residence over his suspected involvement in a drug-dealing case, they said.
The farmer, surnamed Tseng (曾), told police that he had bought the weapon for NT$6,500 at an airsoft gun shop in Kaohsiung in June 2010 to use it to chase away monkeys that stole his crops.
Following an inspection, police concluded that