Fish stocks around Taiwan s tiny Matsu archipelago, a chain of rocky islands near the Chinese mainland, are crucial for the livelihoods of residents but the intruding crews are eating away at them.
Taiwanese fisherman Wang Chia-wen contends with Chinese incursions every day, although not usually the kind staged by Beijing's military during its latest
Taipei, March 17 (CNA) Taiwan Customs has decided to levy more than NT$98 million (US$3.2 million) in fines on ship owners and crew found smuggling nearly 60,000 kilograms of live lobsters from Australia to China via Taiwan's outlying Matsu Islands between September and November last year, the Customs Administration said in a statement issued Thursday.
Staff writer, with CNAA military aircraft is to deliver meat to soldiers on Lienchiang County’s Siju （西莒） islet to relieve a month-long shortage, Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng （邱國正） said yesterday.