By Esme Yeh / Staff reporterTaitung County has the highest forest coverage nationwide, but has insufficient urban green cover, Minister of Environment Peng Chi-ming （彭?明） said yesterday, adding that urban forests could mitigate heat from foehn winds.
BAD-FAITH ARGUMENTS:KMT lawmakers attempted to drag Shen for 12-year-old article, while Chiang blamed a paid campaign for the Internet opprobriumBy Lee I-chia and Ho Yu-hua / Staff reporters, with CNA
By William Hetherington / Staff writer, with CNAThe percentage of inmates serving sentences for drug use has fallen over the past five years, largely due to community-based addiction treatment for people whose crimes were relatively minor, the Agency of Corrections said yesterday.
INVESTING IN TAIWAN: As of August, 10 AI start-ups have received funding, of which NT$255m came from the NDF, while NT$570m was from the private sectorBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter, with CNA
UNWELCOME THROWBACK:Groups condemned police for the ‘heavy-handed’ raid and the arrogant conduct of officers, saying it belied Taipei’s LGBTQ-friendly reputationBy Wang Kuan-jen, Yang Yuan-ting and Sam Garcia / Staff reporters, with staff writer
By Lo Tien-pin and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe army plans to commission the National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology （NCSIST） to build dedicated testing facilities for its indigenously developed Lu Chien II （陸射劍二, “Land Sword II”） missile systems, with a budget of more than NT$295 million （US$9.27 million）, marking move toward fully self-reliant air defense logistics, sources said yesterday.
DEEPENING TIES: The arrival of fighter jets purchased from the US and Lin Chia-lung’s participation in the office inauguration shows progress in cooperation, a source saidBy Su Yong-yao / Staff reporter
/ Staff writer, with CNA, NAGOYATaiwanese tennis players Hsieh Su-wei （謝淑薇） and Liang En-shuo （梁恩碩） yesterday won the women’s doubles gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, securing the nation’s fifth gold medal of the Games.
/ Staff writer, with CNACandidates in the Nov. 28 nine-in-one local elections squared off in Kaohsiung, New Taipei City and Taichung yesterday as their campaigns began to pick up steam.
‘GRAY ZONE’ TACTICS: Beijing sent two China Coast Guard vessels to escort a ‘supposedly private research ship,’ a Philippine Coast Guard spokesman saidBy Fion Khan / Staff writer, with CNA
SHIFTING COOPERATION:With the new arrangement, US representatives would be able to participate directly in defense discussions, including weapons procurementBy Lo Tien-pin and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
/ Staff writer, with CNAItalian translator Silvia Pozzi has won a Pisa Book Translation Award for her translation of Ghost Town （鬼地方）, a novel by Taiwanese author Kevin Chen （陳思宏）.
