The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday slammed China for sanctioning Representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) and six other Taiwanese officials for being “diehard separatists,” saying its attempt to intimidate Taiwanese would backfire.
China has no authority to dictate the actions of Taiwanese, because Taiwan is a democratic nation that upholds the rule of law, and would never yield to intimidation and threats from an authoritarian regime, ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou (歐江安) told a news conference in Taipei.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency earlier yesterday reported that the Taiwan Work Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee has imposed
‘HONORED’: The DPP’s Lin Fei-fan said friends working in the foreign media, the diplomatic corps and at think tanks congratulated him for making the sanctions listStaff writer, with CNA
Hospitals should offer an express emergency service for children as most of them are unvaccinated against COVID-19, New Power Party Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) said yesterday.
Chen was speaking at a news conference in Taipei as the government began its vaccination campaign for children aged six to 11.
A surge in COVID-19 cases has strained hospital capacity in Taipei, New Taipei City and Keelung, which have higher COVID-19 positivity rates than the national average of 9.63 percent. The situation has been worsened by people flocking to hospital emergency rooms for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
This has taken a toll on the quality
Legislators across party lines and civic groups yesterday called on the Council of Agriculture’s (COA) recently established Pet Management Division to stop the practice of offering mice, rabbits, birds, reptiles and other small animals as prizes.
The practice harms animals and sets a bad example about the value of life, they told a news conference in Taipei.
Taiwan Rabbit Saving Association Public Affairs division head Lin Chiao (林樵) played several videos showing how small animals are offered as prizes at night markets, fairs and other places or events.
The environment is unsanitary and the games are inhumane, Lin said, adding that offering animals
The Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) should do more to protect Taiwanese humpback dolphins, as pollution threatens the critically endangered species, New Power Party Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) said on Thursday.
People should be aware not only of the cause of death of a dolphin found in Tainan’s Anping Harbor (安平港) on Monday, but the dangers that the marine animals face, National Taiwan University School of Veterinary Medicine associate professor Yang Wei-cheng (楊瑋誠) said.
More than 80 percent of the dolphins monitored for a study had scars indicating that they had been trapped or caught in netting or wiring, while 60 percent also