A tour guide has been charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of six people who were swept into New Taipei City’s Beishi River (北勢溪) during a nature camp outing she led in October last year, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The woman, surnamed Su (蘇), was the leader of the outing organized by a Taipei-based outdoor experience company on Oct. 16, a statement issued by the Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office said.
Twenty-eight people participated in the outing, which mainly involved hiking the Hubaotan Historic Trail in New Taipei City’s Shuangsi District (雙溪), including 14 elementary-school children, who were each accompanied by a
The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) is to join with local governments to test a torrential rain warning system at three recreation areas in mountainous parts of Taipei and New Taipei City that are vulnerable to flooding and storm surges.
The trial, to begin next month, would cover the Shuangsi (雙溪) recreation area in Taipei, Hubaotan (虎豹潭) in New Taipei City’s Shuangsi District (雙溪) and the Dabao River (大豹溪) in New Taipei City’s Sansia District (三峽), Weather Forecast Center Director Lu Kuo-chen (呂國臣) said.
Lu told a news conference that the new system aims to prevent a repeat of tragedies such as the
A group of 21 people demonstrating against nuclear power completed their march in Taipei yesterday after beginning it in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) the day before.
They were joined by supporters as they reached their destination on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building after nearly 30 hours of walking.
Organized by the National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform, the event was aimed at encouraging people to vote “no” in a referendum on Dec. 18 that asks whether the government should restart construction on the mothballed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District.
The 21 demonstrators represented the
The layout of Old Beijing resembles a quadrangle. Standing on the Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan Park, the highest point of the old city, a central axis can be clearly seen dividing the city in two.
Household infections accounted for about 40 percent of the new COVID-19 cases in Taipei and New Taipei City over the past three days, their governments said yesterday, urging people to visit virtually and refrain from going out over the next two weeks.
From April 26 to yesterday, there were 4,217 cases in New Taipei City, with 947 in Banciao (板橋) alone, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said, adding that 4,535 people are in home quarantine.
During the period, there were 677 cases in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和), 500 in Sanchong District (三重), 369 in Sinjhuang District (新莊), 334