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Taiwan leads world baseball again this year, with the CPBL set to start the season on Saturday, ahead of other leagues.
The opener comes before the start of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball on March 26, US Major League Baseball on April 1 and South Korea’s Korea Baseball Organization League on April 3.
Most of the sports world took notice last year when Taiwan on April 12 became the first country to start baseball amid the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the nation’s success in containing the disease, while many major sports competitions elsewhere were delayed or canceled.
South Korea and Japan delayed their season
Legislators from three political parties last week called for the creation of a climate action law.
More than a dozen members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and the New Power Party expressed support for the law at a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
DPP Legislator Hung Sun-han (洪申翰) said he submitted a draft of a climate action act in December last year that included a goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 and setting up a climate change coordination post at the Executive Yuan.
Net zero emissions means Taiwan would remove the same