CULTURE
<strong>Paris Taiwan center opens</strong>
France’s second Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning opened in Paris on Saturday, and is to promote Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese-style Mandarin learning in the country. The center was inaugurated at L’Encrier Chinois, a Chinese-language school that opened in 2005. Representative to France Francois Wu (吳志中) and Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Deputy Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) attended the opening ceremony. Hsu said the center, founded by Taipei, serves as a platform for French to learn about Taiwanese culture and democracy. OCAC began opening Mandarin language centers in September last year. Today, 45 centers have been established around
Tainan, April 9 (CNA) A former elementary school teacher from Tainan, who was convicted last year of sexually assaulting one of his students, was arrested in Taichung Saturday, after being on the police most wanted list for over two months, according to the Tainan City Police Department.
A speed camera on Provincial Highway No. 84 in Tainan has issued more than 30,000 speeding tickets the most issued by a camera in the special municipality collecting more than NT$50 million (US$1.81 million) in fines since it was installed in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Tainan City Police Department said.
The camera near Yufong Bridge (玉豐大橋) issued the most speeding tickets for a fixed position camera in 2020 at 15,225, the department said on Friday.
Having been adjusted to focus more on the lanes from Tainan’s Danei District (大內) to Yujing District (玉井) in the fourth quarter of
Three police officers in Tainan accused of improperly handling a report that could have potentially helped prevent the murder of a female Malaysian student last year were impeached and referred to a disciplinary court on Tuesday, the Control Yuan said yesterday.
Kao Wu-yuan (高武源), Chang Chung-ken (張忠肯) and Yang Ching-yu (楊慶裕), who were stationed at Tainan City Police Department’s Gueiren (歸仁) Precinct, did not properly handle a report of an attempted abduction reported by a female Taiwanese student enrolled at the same university as the victim, one month before the murder took place, the Control Yuan said.
The first student on Sept.
Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) Three police officers in Tainan City accused of improperly handling a police report that could have potentially helped prevent the murder of a Malaysian female student last year, were impeached and referred to a disciplinary court on Tuesday, the Control Yuan said Wednesday.