FIGHTING FIRE: Businesses often set off firecrackers on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, which means fire incidents are more common, a Taichung firefighter saidBy Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Taipei, Nov. 23 (CNA) Candidates in the upcoming local government elections continued to campaign Wednesday, visiting temples and markets, meeting and shaking hands with voters, in an effort to encourage their supporters to go to the polls, before all campaigns are required by law to conclude at midnight Friday.
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterForeign nationals who entered Taiwan as visitors before late March 2020 and stayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic will not receive another visa extension, and must leave Taiwan before the end of next month, the National Immigration Agency said yesterday.
By Lee Hsin-fang and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Executive Yuan yesterday promised to purchase bulletproof equipment and ease rules governing firearm use for police after two officers were killed in Tainan while pursuing a suspect on Monday.
Flowering “skunk trees” have been identified as the source of a foul odor that was reported in parts of Kaohsiung early yesterday, the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau said.
In a news release, the bureau said it received 10 reports before dawn yesterday of a stench resembling “pig feces” in the districts of Gushan (鼓山), Zuoying (左營), Niaosong (鳥松), Renwu (仁武), Sanmin (三民) and Fongshan (鳳山).
City workers sent to investigate the odor concluded that it came from flowering Sterculia foetida trees, which are commonly found along roadsides in Kaohsiung, the bureau said.
The tree, which is also known as the “wild almond,” “bastard