Taiwan Power Co acting chairman Tseng Wen-sheng, center left, Pingtung County Commissioner Pan Men-an, center right, and Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chou Chun-mi, second right, pedal to generate electricity at an event in Pingtung County yesterday. The county government yesterday announced that household electricity in the county is fully generated from renewable energy sources. The Pingtung Environmental Protection Bureau said that as of the end of June, the county had generated a grid-connected 1 gigawatt of renewable energy, including from solar, wind and biogas.
The Taoyuan City Government is helping aquafarms sell groupers to customers outside of China to soften the blow of a Beijing ban on Taiwanese grouper imports, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) said on Wednesday.
Cheng made the remark on the sidelines of a policy conference on exporting farmed fish with representatives from other local governments at a Worldwide Union Group seafood packaging facility in the city’s Dayuan District (大園).
Beijing last month implemented a ban on grouper imports from Taiwan, saying that it had detected prohibited chemicals in some shipments.
China had been the biggest buyer of groupers raised in Taiwan prior the
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lo Chih-cheng (羅致政), who had been tipped as the party’s candidate for New Taipei City mayor in the Nov. 26 local elections, pulled out of consideration yesterday, citing delays in formalizing his nomination.
DPP Secretary-General Lin Hsi-yao (林錫耀) on May 3 asked Lo, who heads the party’s International Affairs Department, if he would be willing to be the DPP candidate to run against incumbent New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), a source familiar with the matter said.
Lo, a two-term member of the Legislative Yuan representing New Taipei City’s Banciao
Students will be able to study in comfort this summer, after air-conditioners were installed in public schools nationwide in a government initiative more than a year in the making.
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) at a launch event yesterday hailed the initiative as achieving “mission impossible.”
Teachers and students have long been plagued by high temperatures, affecting their studies and necessitating a concerted plan of action, Su told a gathering at Pingtung City’s Heh Sheng Elementary School, which was joined virtually by schools nationwide.
The Cabinet’s plan took more than a year to coordinate, with 2,300 work crews installing 180,000 air-conditioners in 3,500 schools
By Yeh Yung-chien and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerStudents will be able to study in comfort this summer, after air-conditioners were installed in public schools nationwide in a government initiative more than a year in the making.