In the 1990s, when I was living outside Kaohsiung, the locals sardonically summed up the central government’s regional policies with a play on the term for male chauvinism: “Stress the north, ignore the south.”
It’s now been over a decade since Tainan, Kaohsiung city and county, Taichung and Taipei County were upgraded to special municipalities in December 2010, with Taoyuan following suit in 2014. At present, some two-thirds of the population is contained in these six large administrative areas.
After the change, some 61 percent of the central government funds for local areas went to the municipalities, with the share
On Dec. 11, the Central Epidemic Command Center announced that a research assistant at the biosafety level 3 (P3) laboratory of Academia Sinica’s Genomics Research Center in Taipei’s Nangang District (南港) had been infected with COVID-19. This incident is shocking, but not entirely unexpected.
Laboratories are inherently dangerous places. Biosafety level 4 (P4) laboratories handle infectious and highly lethal pathogens such as Ebola, Lassa fever and the Marburg virus, which are often difficult to treat, whereas P3 laboratories study pathogens such as the tuberculosis bacterium and SARS-CoV-2, which are slightly less lethal, but still dangerous.
In 1967, African green monkeys transported from
A question from a lawmaker about his “personal experience” at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Finance Committee prompted central bank Governor Yang Chin-long (楊金龍) to suggest that young people should consider renting a home until they can afford to purchase one.
There is nothing wrong with Yang’s advice, but in 1993, when Yang was a 40-year-old first-time home buyer, newly constructed houses in Taipei cost NT$300,000 per ping (3.3m2), while pre-owned houses were NT$200,000 per ping. Newly constructed houses in Taipei County now New Taipei City cost about NT$100,000 per ping.
At that time in Taiwan, the average family
A question from a lawmaker about his “personal experience” at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Finance Committee prompted central bank Governor Yang Chin-long (楊金龍) to suggest that young people should consider renting a home until they can afford to purchase one.
There is nothing wrong with Yang’s advice, but in 1993, when Yang was a 40-year-old first-time home buyer, newly constructed houses in Taipei cost NT$300,000 per ping (3.3m2), while pre-owned houses were NT$200,000 per ping. Newly constructed houses in Taipei County now New Taipei City cost about NT$100,000 per ping.
At that time in Taiwan, the average family
The outcome of December’s referendums would determine the nation’s future, and the public’s interests must not be hijacked by political turmoil created by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership said yesterday.
“This referendum vote is a challenge in the fight for Taiwan’s future, including against the deepening of our nation’s democracy and could even reverse our policy to transition to renewable energy,” President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) told a DPP rally urging people to vote “no” on all four referendum questions
She was joined Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and other prominent party politicians at Taoyuan’s Sanmin Sports Park