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
Ducati’s Marc Marquez won the Japanese Grand Prix sprint yesterday to shave five points off Aprilia rider Jorge Martin’s lead in the MotoGP championship standings.Marquez made a scorching start and held the inside line on the first turn of the opening lap to surge past Martin, who had set a lap reco
The First Island Chain is one of the most powerful geopolitical features in the Indo-Pacific region. It is also an incomplete one. Drawn as a strategic line stretching from Japan through Taiwan toward the Philippines, it highlights military geography while largely overlooking the islands, ports and
Recently, reports of Line account hacking have surged. On Sept. 9, Line announced that customer service reports related to such incidents in August had nearly doubled, increasing by 97 percent from July. Among these scams, requests to “vote for my child” and “help my pet get more votes” have become
India’s “Cockroach” youth movement yesterday called for new protests in Mumbai to demand the resignation of the chief election commissioner over a contentious revision of voter lists.The movement, which began as an online campaign and now calls itself the Cockroach Janata Party, forced India’s educa
Manchester City are expected to press ahead with an appeal against findings that they breached Premier League financial rules by yesterday’s deadline, opening a fresh chapter in a case that has already become one of the most significant in English soccer.The club has consistently denied wrongdoing,
The government yesterday began fully subsidizing an additional six days of paid marriage leave, extending it from eight days to 14.The Ministry of Labor’s Guidelines for Wage Subsidies for Marriage, Maternity and Paternity Leave under the Family-Friendly Workplace Program (友善育兒職場婚孕產假薪資補助要點) are part
