This month the government floated plans to extend the High Speed Rail (HSR) network around the entire island. Transportation Minister Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said that this dream will be built piece by piece, due to its high construction costs.
At present plans are being formulated for an extension to Yilan, with the new HSR station slated for a site 350 meters south of the Yilan county government complex. The government has promised to put in a new train station there as well.
That project is paralleled by a proposal to spend billions to put in an express rail line to
By Hou Cheng-hsu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerIn a nationwide first, Kaohsiung is hoping to limit the daily number of hours a delivery driver can work, along with a suite of other regulations to manage the emerging sector.
In a nationwide first, Kaohsiung is hoping to limit the daily number of hours a delivery driver can work, along with a suite of other regulations to manage the emerging sector.
More than 44 percent of delivery drivers work for more than 12 hours a day, raising health and safety concerns, data provided by Taiwan Labor Front showed.
The Kaohsiung City Government has drafted an ordinance governing the sector that would set a 12-hour limit on daily working hours. Two days of rest would also be required every two weeks.
The ordinance states that delivery platform operators must pay a minimum of NT$3
The nation’s full vaccination coverage rate is expected to reach 60 percent today, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday as it announced the 17th round of vaccinations, in which first and second doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are to be offered.
As of Friday, the nation’s first-dose vaccination rate was 78.12 percent and the full vaccination rate 59.73 percent, said Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman.
The CECC had previously set a goal of achieving a full vaccination rate of 60 percent by the end of the year.
However,