COLD WAVE: Temperatures are forecast to plummet tonight, with snow expected at high altitudes, before recovering on Thursday, the weather bureau said/ Staff writer, with CNA
The Nansha Taiping Island International Research Station has commenced operations, and the National Academy of Marine Research aims to invite international researchers to the facility on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) in the diputed South China Sea, a source said on Thursday.
Former academy president Chiu Yung-fang (邱永芳) called the establishment of the facility, which was proposed by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), a “major national task.”
Tsai in a speech in 2016 said Taiwan would strive to work with countries in the region on scientific pursuits, including research related to earthquake and tsunami monitoring, climate change and ocean acidification.
She also
By Hung Ting-hung and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Nansha Taiping Island International Research Station has commenced operations, and the National Academy of Marine Research aims to invite international researchers to the facility on Itu Aba Island （Taiping Island, 太平島） in the diputed South China Sea, a source said on Thursday.
Sung Yi-chen (宋宜臻) and Lee Yi-ho (李翊禾) went from designing the latest new smartphones to washing cups.
Not just any cups, but reusable containers that they’ve made available at a Tainan shopping district through their fledgling cup-lending service, GoodToGo (好盒器).
“Our previous jobs were to design features that would encourage people to discard their phone for the newest model,” Sung says. “It just didn’t seem right to be putting so many resources into endlessly upgrading the quality of a product.”
Today, professional cleaners sanitize their cups, and GoodToGo’s business has expanded from Tainan to Taipei, partnering with the city’s Environmental Protection
The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee yesterday announced the improper sale of a state-owned property in Taipei by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) that was previously overlooked due to a decades-old clerical error.
The Taipei Police Hostel on Nanyang Street and the land it stands on were sold by the KMT during the Martial Law era, despite rightfully belonging to the public, the commission said in its latest report.
The KMT had confiscated the Japanese colonial-era building near Taipei Railway Station to use as its provincial party headquarters. It was one of 85 government buildings in the first batch of properties appropriated