Ukrainians in Taiwan say they are concerned for the safety of their family and friends in Ukraine after Russia invaded the eastern European country on Thursday.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning in a televised addressed said that Moscow would launch a “special military operation,” the military attacked several cities in Ukraine and media reports indicated soldiers had entered the capital, Kyiv.
Daria Zheng, who is from Vinnytsia in west-central Ukraine and has lived in Taiwan for more than five years, said she cried when she saw the news and immediately tried to contact her family and friends.
“I feel quite
FEELING HELPLESS: Ukrainians in Taiwan have been attempting to contact loved ones, as reports stream in of airstrikes and soldiers closing in on the capital/ Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei, Jan. 18 (CNA) The Ministry of Education (MOE) will expand its recruitment of foreign English teachers for elementary and junior high schools in the 2022-2023 school year as part of Taiwan's efforts to become a bilingual country, it said Tuesday.
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Self-defense against monkeys legal: Kaohsiung agency
‘LEGITIMATE PURPOSE’: A student who allegedly fired an air gun at Formosan macaques, which have no protection status, did not aim to harm them, it said
By Huang Hsu-lei and Chen Wen-chan / Staff reporters
A female student who carried a BB gun for self-defense against marauding monkeys did not contravene the Wildlife Conservation Act (野生動物保育法), the Kaohsiung Agriculture Bureau on said on Friday.
The bureau issued the statement after a video earlier this week circulated online showing the student raising the air gun while waiting for a food delivery driver in front of a dormitory at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung.