The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) strongly supports Chunghwa Telecom’s plan to establish a professional baseball team, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday.
The ministry, which owns 35 percent of Chunghwa Telecom’s shares, is the company’s largest shareholder.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) yesterday asked Wang if the telecom briefed him about its plan to form the CPBL’s sixth professional baseball team.
“I am aware of the telecom’s plan. It was reported that the team’s home field would be in Kaohsiung. The telecom has government shares and generates profits, and I
Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) yesterday ordered the dismissal of the director and a section chief of the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) construction department after a steel pile fell from a construction site onto the tracks, hitting a westbound Taroko Express train yesterday morning.
No deaths or injuries were reported.
Wang vowed to transform the agency into a state-run corporation within three years when he assumed his post following the April 2 derailment of an eastbound Taroko Express at the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Huailen County. That incident, which killed 49 people and injured more than 200, was caused
SAFETY UNDER SCRUTINY: Material fell from a construction site near the train tracks and broke the train’s windshield, but did not cause injury or deathBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
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