Taipei, July 6 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) extended its heat alert on Thursday afternoon to more parts of the country, including the Greater Taipei Area and eastern Taiwan, and forecasted highs of over 38 degrees Celsius in the next couple of days.
The Executive Yuan on Tuesday initiated a NT$1 billion (US$33.69 million) program to boost natural disaster resilience in response to extreme weather events and earthquakes, Cabinet spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said.
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) approved the program’s launch, Lo said in statement following a Cabinet meeting on disaster management.
Taiwan is in an earthquake hot spot and reports an average of 40,000 quakes a year, making the promotion of earthquake awareness among the public an important duty for the government, Su was quoted as saying.
A previous disaster prevention and response improvement plan would be continued in the new program, which aims
Taipei, June 9 (CNA) A tour guide has been charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of six people who died after being swept into New Taipei's Beishi Stream during a nature camp outing she led in October 2021, prosecutors said Thursday.