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2021/05/09 16:15 (Foodpanda photo) (Foodpanda photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Foodpanda, one of the most popular food delivery platforms in Taiwan. last month released a list of the 24 Taiwanese universities with the most orders as well as information on students’ favorite dishes, midnight snacks, drinks, and types of groceries. Taiwanese college students nowadays rely on the convenience of food delivery services to cut down on time spent in queues and to allow them to try a variety of food without stepping off-campus. Students from National Chiao Tung University (NYCU), National Central University (NCU), and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) place the most, second-most, and third-most orders with Foodpanda, respectively. National Taiwan University (NTU) and Tamkang University come in at fourth and fifth place. ....
Taiwan: the pangolin’s last stand? The shy, enigmatic scaly ant eater finds its final refuge in Taiwan during the age of its worldwide extinction By Gregory McCann / Contributing reporter Who would have thought that Taiwan just over 100km from China and a few hundred kilometers away from Vietnam, which are the world’s first and second biggest consumers of pangolin scales would become the last beacon of hope for this imperiled species? In fact, pangolins from sub-species in Africa all the way down to Indonesia are the world’s most highly trafficked mammal. Thought to cure anything from HIV to hangovers, ground pangolin scales and pangolin soup (the photos online are difficult to stomach) are expensive delicacies in Vietnam and China, and the rarer the species becomes, the more it is sought after because it is going extinct creating a dreadful vicious cycle propelling the animal into oblivion. ....
Airline personnel should be held to stricter quarantine measures given recent cases of COVID-19 linked to Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, experts said. As of yesterday, four employees at Novotel, which is used by China Airlines and other carriers as a quarantine hotel for their crew, had been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, but how they became infected remains unclear. The hotel is in a China Airlines complex that comprises the carrier’s headquarters and training facilities. Since April 20, 10 of the airline’s pilots have tested positive for COVID-19, including one in Australia, and the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has yet to ....
International team develops potential COVID drug screening platform 04/30/2021 06:39 PM To activate the text-to-speech service, please first agree to the privacy policy below. Members of the research team pose for a group photo during a press event held Friday. CNA photo April 30, 2021 Taipei, April 30 (CNA) An international research team comprised of researchers from Taiwan and Malaysia has developed a platform where drugs with the potential to inhibit infection by the virus that causes COVID-19 can be identified from massive data banks of known medicines in about 20 minutes. The platform for the rapid screening of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors was developed as an efficient tool to sift through existing medicines and determine which are most likely to prove efficacious against COVID-19, the developers said at a press conference held by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taipei on Friday. ....
Platform finds potential antiviral drugs TWO OUT OF MILLIONS: More work has to be done to evaluate the clinical effects of drugs identified through a newly developed platform, a research team member said Staff writer, with CNA A Taiwanese-Malaysian research team has developed a platform to identify drugs that might inhibit COVID-19 infections, which screens massive databanks of existing medicines. The platform was developed to help scientists find drugs developed to treat other diseases that might prove efficacious against COVID-19, the developers yesterday told a news conference held by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taipei. Chang Chia-ching (張家靖), a professor in the university’s Department of Biological Science and Technology, said that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 infections, attaches itself to the ACE2 receptor on human cells. ....