Succesful by design
Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Lin Chuan-neng, left, and Chiayi Mayor Huang Ming-hui attend a signing ceremony for this year’s Taiwan Design Expo in Chiayi City yesterday. The annual design expo is to take place in the city from Oct. 1 to Oct. 17. Last year’s event in Hsinchu attracted a record 640,000 visitors.
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Two unexploded landmines found in Kinmen
12/13/2020 06:03 PM
Photo courtesy of the Coast Guard Administration
Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) Two old unexploded landmines were found Saturday in Kinmen, an island that was the frontline in Taiwan s defense against attacks by Communist Chinese forces in the late 1940s and into the 70s, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said on Sunday.
The two landmines were spotted in a coastal area on the western side of Kinmen s Lieyu Township by a passerby, who informed local authorities late Saturday, the CGA said in a press release.
According to the press release, the CGA immediately dispatched its 9th Coastal Patrol Corps to the site, where the objects were identified as American M3 landmines, a kind of anti-personnel landmines designed to wound or kill by its fragmentation.