President Chain Store Corp’s (統一超商) 7-Eleven convenience store chain yesterday launched private work spaces in Taoyuan to cater to people seeking an alternative to working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The spaces, which can be rented by the hour, are on the second floor of its Ching Hang branch near the Taoyuan high-speed railway station, President Chain Store said in a statement.
The store has 14 rooms, 11 of which are can be used by one person at a rate of NT$100 per hour, it said.
Two rooms can accommodate two people and cost NT$180 per hour, while one room is designed
The Control Yuan has censured the police precinct in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢) after investigating the arrest of music teacher Chan Hui-ling (詹慧玲) in April last year.
Chan, who thought she was being stopped without cause, refused to answer a police officer’s questions and called the incident “really stupid.”
The police officer, surnamed Yeh (葉), handcuffed Chan and arrested her on suspicion of obstructing a public official.
Chan filed a report accusing the officer of infringing on her civil liberties and causing bodily harm.
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office closed the case in October last year without prosecuting either party, but Chan requested
A fire broke out early yesterday at Carrefour’s logistics center in Taoyuan, but no one was injured, the city’s fire department said.
The fire appeared to have started on the first floor of the two-story warehouse in Yangmei District (楊梅), and firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after they received the report of the blaze at 7:33am, the department said.
An initial assessment indicated that no one was trapped in the Yangmei Logistics Distribution Center, and as of press time last night, the blaze had been brought under control, but not fully extinguished, it said.
Carrefour said in a statement that all staff
Taiwan yesterday reported four new domestic COVID-19 cases connected to a cluster involving four schools in Taoyuan, bringing the total in the cluster of unknown origin to 30 cases, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said.
The new cases are a girl who attends Midi Preschool and three relatives of another student at the preschool who tested positive on Sunday, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, told the center’s news briefing.
The test results of the girl and two of her family members who tested positive on Monday showed that they were not recently infected, making
The suicides might have seemed apocryphal, but the ritual meant to banish their malevolent ghosts was real. And that had the residents of Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢) concerned for their safety.
According to reports in March last year in Mirror Media and Storm Media, four people had taken their lives by burning coal in the alcove of a townhouse they were renting near Lane 270 on Jhongshan Street (中山). After the father of the family learned of the tragedy, he hung himself. The landlord later rented out the space, but tenants kept committing suicide by hanging. Convinced that evil spirits