President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) appealed to survivors of Typhoon Morakot on Sunday to evacuate when necessary in the future. Continuing his tour in Kaohsiung County, Ma told Namasiya Township (那瑪夏) residents now staying at a military academy in Yanchao Township (燕巢) that they must realize the importance of relocation. “If we don’t implement the mandatory [...]

A number of convicts who were sentenced to prison terms of six months or less are expected to be put to work in communities hardest-hit by Typhoon Morakot, Ministry of Justice sources said on Sunday. The assignment will be part of a community-service sentencing program introduced under an amendment to Article 41 of the Criminal [...]

The Council of Agriculture (COA) announced on Sunday that it would increase the amount of low-interest loans offered to grouper fish farmers who suffered losses from Typhoon Morakot. The move is part of the government’s efforts to reconstruct the devastated fisheries industry.“The damage caused to the nation’s grouper fish farms — concentrated in Pingtung County’s [...]

The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said yesterday it will go ahead with its original plan to procure 60 US-built Blackhawk helicopters, but will allocate 15 of them to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) for disaster relief work. “We reached that decision after consulting with the Interior Ministry,” the defense ministry said in a [...]

An increasing number of people are dissatisfied with the government’s maintainance of social order, a survey released on Saturday indicated. The survey conducted by the Crime Research Center of National Chung Cheng University found that 76 percent of respondents were dissatisfied with the government’s efforts to improve social order in the first half of the [...]

Labor rights activists and academics said on Sunday that they were skeptical that working conditions would improve despite the job market gradually showing signs of recovery. The latest data from the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) showed that the number of workers told to take unpaid leave by their employers had dropped to 66,709 as [...]

Taoyuan of Taiwan took advantage of six errors by Reynosa of Mexico and scratched out runs on a bunt single and a bases-loaded walk to win 9-4 and reach the Little League World Series final on Saturday. Up next, a matchup yesterday with Chula Vista of California, which routed San Antonio of Texas 12-2 in [...]

Most of Sunday’s ten new hospitalized A(H1N1) swine flu cases were children, including a one-year-old, the Centers for Disease Control announced on the eve of the new school year. The rise to a total of 75 cases came just one day after the CDC announced a record one-day increase of 11. “Hospitalized cases” is the [...]

Taipei City will announce on Tuesday what it will do with the troubled Neihu-Muzha Mass Rapid Transit lines, especially during the upcoming Deaflympics, Mayor Hau Lung-pin said. The MRT lines were in the midst of their second consecutive weekend shutdown on Sunday for intensive repairs by Canadian contractor Bombardier. The city has blamed the problems [...]

Kaohsiung, Aug. 31 (CNA) Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport late Sunday night to mixed reactions. Scores of people waving banners at the airport denounced the Dalai Lama’s visit to Taiwan, while others waited for hours at other points to catch a glimpse of him and to greet [...]