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Tsai changes up Cabinet SECURITY RESHUFFLE: President Tsai Ing-wen believes the changes to the national security team will help meet the challenges of a post-pandemic world By Su Yung-yao, Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has ordered a reshuffle of top military and security officials in the Cabinet, Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) said yesterday. Chang told a news conference at the Presidential Office that National Security Bureau Director-General Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) is to replace Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa (嚴德發), while Yen is to become a National Security Council (NSC) consultant. Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chen Ming-tong (陳明通) is to become the bureau’s director-general, while NSC consultant Chiu Tai-san (邱太三) is to take over Chen’s post, he said. ....
Prepare and train to avoid hiking accidents: ministry By Huang Hsin-po and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer With hiking accidents in national parks on the rise, the Ministry of the Interior yesterday urged people to train, prepare and educate themselves before heading to the mountains. Statistics from the Construction and Planning Agency showed that the number of permits issued for visitors to ecological reserves in national parks totaled 295,731 last year, an increase of 71,854, or 32.1 percent, from the previous year, the ministry said in a news release. During the same period, the number of emergency incidents at the parks increased by 71, or 61.7 percent, to 186, with people getting injured or lost, altitude sickness and falling being the most common types of emergency, the ministry said. ....
Exhibition in Taipei highlights housing problems Staff writer, with CNA The advocacy group Housing Movement 2.0 on Wednesday launched a month-long exhibition at a rented space in Taipei to satirize the nation’s high housing prices. In a departure from its past outdoor protests, the organization partnered with National Taiwan University of Science and Technology design professor Lee Ken-tsai (李根在) to rent a space in Daan District (大安) to create the “Celestial Dragons House” (天龍房屋). Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chiang Yung-chang (江永昌), New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) and Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如) attended the opening ceremony, where offerings were displayed and guests held incense sticks to resemble a traditional ceremony sometimes held by real-estate agencies when a new office opens. ....