Taipei, Jan. 25 (CNA) Chiayi County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang (翁章梁) on Tuesday welcomed contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) after local news media reported that the county is the chipmaker's preferred location to build an advanced integrated circuit packaging and testing plant.
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and other senior officials support a merger of Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) announced yesterday following a high-level meeting at the presidential residence.
The attendees, who included senior government officials and other prominent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members, discussed key policy measures following Saturday’s referendum, Chang said.
Tsai hopes the party caucus can back government policies while obtaining support from across party lines for the national budget, Chang added, referencing a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) boycott of the budget bill over what the KMT called partisan campaigning by DPP officials ahead of
TALK VS ACTION: Hsinchu City’s mayor said ‘greater Hsinchu’ should be made a reality soon, but the Hsinchu County commissioner said that more public debate was requiredBy Yang Chun-hui and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A woman was yesterday detained and a man released on bail as prosecutors investigate the cause of a building fire in Kaohsiung that claimed 46 lives and injured dozens on Thursday.
The fire in the Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building in Yancheng District (鹽埕) in the early hours of Thursday morning is the second-deadliest building fire in Taiwan, after a February 1995 blaze at Weierkang Club in Taichung killed 64 people.
At least 46 residents of the building in Kaohsiung, most of whom were elderly, died in the blaze, the latest tally showed.
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement that
SEARCH CONTINUES: The evidence suggests the fire started in a room behind a teaware shop, where three people were drinking earlier in the day, a source said/ Staff writer, with CNA and AP