TRA reform priority for new minister
FINANCIAL WOES: Wang Kwo-tsai said the top Executive Yuan and budget officials had agreed on a plan that would benefit passengers, the rail agency and its workers
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Reform of the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) is his No. 1 priority, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said yesterday as he laid out eight key items that he aims to accomplish in the role.
Wang was appointed minister following the resignation of Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) after the Taroko Express No. 408 derailment on April 2 killed 49 people and injured 244.
“The Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the TRA will share the responsibility of reforming the agency to ensure the safety of the railway system,” Wang said, adding that the work would involve a lot of communication with union members.
Pork consumption in Taiwan has increased by thousands of tonnes, while no shipment of US pork imports has tested positive for ractopamine, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Meng-yen (李孟諺) relayed Premier Su Tseng-chang’s (蘇貞昌) remarks at a Council of Agriculture policy briefing on the country’s pig farming industry at a news conference in Taipei.
Su was cited as saying that the government did not find ractopamine in more than 400 shipments of foreign pork imports inspected this year.
Although critics have said that US pork imports would put pricing pressure on domestic pork, consumption of domestic pork this year
By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNAPork consumption in Taiwan has increased by thousands of tonnes, while no shipment of US pork imports has tested positive for ractopamine, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
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