Expanding drone use a priority: minister
MOVING ON UP: Since regulations on drones took effect in March, more than 60,000 UAVs have been registered, while the CAA has issued more than 5,000 permits for them
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Improving regulations and expanding the approved use of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become a top priority for the government, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday.
Taiwan is the first nation in Asia that uses specific legislation to regulate drone use, which last year drew the attention of civil aviation officials at the International Civil Aviation Organization General Assembly in Montreal, Canada, Lin said during his opening remarks at a forum in Taipei.
MOTC mulls railway track expansions
FASTER TRAIN TRAVEL: The transport ministry’s planned upgrades to sections throughout Taiwan, to be finished by 2027, are under review at the Executive Yuan
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) yesterday said it is studying the feasibility of upgrading certain single-track railway sections to dual tracks, after the electrification of all Taiwan’s major railways has been completed.
The South Link Line became fully electrified yesterday after seven years of construction.
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) marked the occasion with a ride on a Puyuma Express train from Taichung Railway Station to Taimali Station (太麻里) in Taitung County, accompanied by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍).
Taiwan in Time: For the love of campus freedom
After doing away with school censorship policies over student publications in December 1986, NTU students launched a failed bid against the government for complete university autonomy
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Dec. 21 to Dec. 27
A historic decision was made on Dec. 19, 1986 when the National Taiwan University (NTU) student council voted 83-0 to abolish school censorship of student publications.
The publications’ faculty advisers still had to inspect the contents and were allowed to attach any conflicting opinions at the end of each article, but the school could no longer stop the students or punish them for publishing content that they, and by extension the government, didn’t approve of.
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