POLITICS
<strong>Candidate defends property</strong>
The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate, Ko Chih-en (柯志恩), yesterday confirmed that she owns properties in the US, which she said that she declared to the Control Yuan. The public servant property declaration she made in November 2019 showed that she has a 556.88m2 plot and a 442.25m2 location in San Jose, California. “I acted appropriately and was aboveboard, used my own name and made a declaration according to the law,” she wrote on Facebook in response to criticism that cast doubt over her loyalty to Kaohsiung. She said that her husband has been working in
Taipei, May 30 (CNA) An approaching weather front and strengthening southwesterly winds will bring rain to much of Taiwan on Tuesday, including the possibility of extremely heavy downpours in Greater Taipei, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
Taipei, May 3 (CNA) Temperatures in northern Taiwan will rise over the next few days to a high of 29 degrees Celsius on Friday, before dropping back into the mid-20s over the weekend, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
DEFENSE
<strong>Chopper refit plan dropped</strong>
The Ministry of National Defense yesterday told the Legislative Yuan that it is abandoning plans to refit old UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters or obtain new ones, and would instead use the EC-225 Eurocopter or the Sikorsky S-70 for nighttime search-and-rescue operations. Air force Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Huang Chih-wei (黃志偉) said the cancelation stems from outstandingcosts for a refit or purchase. The US gave a NT$4.3 billion (US$148 million) quote for the refitting procedure, far outstripping the ministry’s planned NT$1.96 billion budget, Huang said, adding that purchasing new helicopters would cost NT$18 billion. The navy has
Taipei, April 10 (CNA) The arrival of a weather front late Wednesday will send temperatures down by 7-8 degrees Celsius and bring rain to parts of Taiwan, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).