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American basketball player William Artino on Thursday evening arrived in Taiwan after last month completing his naturalization overseas, enabling him to represent Taiwan in international competitions.
Artino is one of the few foreigners who received an exemption to retain their home country’s citizenship while acquiring Taiwanese nationality.
The 29-year-old, 2.11m center and his wife arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 7:40pm after disembarking from a United Airlines flight, which departed from San Francisco.
Lee Yun-hsiang (李雲翔), deputy secretary-general of Taiwan’s Chinese Taipei Basketball Association (CTBA), said that the organization would help Artino apply for his national identification card, adding that it is
WEATHER
<strong>Tropical storm possible</strong>
A low-pressure system east of the Philippines could approach Taiwan next week, bringing rain to parts of the nation starting on Monday, the last day of the Double Ten National Day holiday weekend, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday. The low-pressure system could develop into a tropical storm after tomorrow, forecasters said, adding that it could bring rain to eastern and northern Taiwan on Monday and Tuesday. It is forecast to enter the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan and possibly make landfall in southern Taiwan, the bureau said, adding that more data would be needed to accurately forecast