ACCUSATIONS: A falling boom triggered 16 alerts when it hit the tracks, but the control center did not call the station, focusing instead on assessing electrical issuesBy Tsai Shu-yuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA
The air force is to hold a ceremony in September to symbolically “bring home” 52 Air Force Academy cadets who were killed during World War II and buried in the US, a military source said yesterday.
On Sept. 3, Armed Forces Day, memorial plaques honoring the cadets are to be placed at the Air Force Cemetery in the Bitan (碧潭) area of New Taipei City’s Xindian District (新店), the source said, adding that a ritual to symbolize the return of the cadet’s spirits is to be part of the ceremony.
The decision to erect the memorial plaques was disclosed on Saturday by
Taipei, June 13 (CNA) The Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force will hold a ceremony in September to symbolically "bring home" 52 Air Force Academy cadets who were killed during World War II and buried in the United States, a military source said Monday.
The Yangmingshan National Park Headquarters’ “negligent” actions played a part in the unusually high number of wild water buffaloes that have died in the park over the past few years, the Control Yuan said on Friday.
A Control Yuan investigation looked into the mysterious deaths of dozens of water buffaloes on Yangmingshan (陽明山), many of them in the winter last year, and it found that the park headquarters’ response was “rash” and “negligent,” and it “wasted public funds.”
Control Yuan members demanded that the park take corrective action, including on whether to relocate the animals or how to protect them in the