When leaders visit the coral atolls that form the Pacific nation of Tuvalu on Tuesday, they will find a once-vibrant ecosystem wiped out due to climate change.The pre-Conference of the Parties (COP) gathering, hosted by Fiji ahead of the annual UN climate conference in Turkey, has been billed as the
Working from before dawn until midnight, farmers Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy and Laszlo Pajsan fought Europe’s driest summer ever to save their red pepper harvest in Hungary.Unable to irrigate much of their two-and-a-half-hectare land because power lines run across it, they repeatedly loosened the soil ar
The cruise liner “Mitsui Ocean Fuji” receives a water cannon salute yesterday upon its first call to Penghu County’s Magong Port under its current name, marking the port’s final cruise-ship call of the year. The ship was formerly known as the “Seabourn Odyssey.”
CPC Corp, Taiwan (台灣中油) said on Saturday that it would keep its domestic gasoline and diesel prices unchanged this week, even though international crude oil prices still hovered at high levels.Formosa Petrochemical Corp’s (台塑石化) Web site also indicates that it would maintain its fuel prices at the s
Taiwan Railway Corp’s new station in Tainan is scheduled to open on Oct. 17 as part of a project to shift the mainline rail infrastructure in the city underground, the Railway Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday.Built next to the historic Tainan Station, com
A local public health study found that methadone maintenance treatment and needle and syringe programs are highly cost-effective in reducing HIV transmission, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said yesterday.Lo made the remarks amid a heated debate online over methad
