The picturesque Lac des Brenets between France and Switzerland has dried up after a record-breaking hot summer, leaving locals crying out for help to save the lake.Indeed, the words “HELP” and “SOS” have been scratched out in the weeds now flourishing on the exposed lake bed.The drought has ruined p
A US Marine stationed on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said yesterday. The suspect “killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday,” a local police spokesman said.US Ambassador George Glass pos
Four members of a family were killed in a fire at a building materials store in Yilan County late Saturday, local authorities said yesterday.The four victims were the wife and two children of the property owner, a man surnamed Yu (游), as well as his father, according to the Yilan County Fire Bureau.
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
Candidates 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. At a campaign event in Kaohsiung, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavyweights including President William Lai (賴清德), Kaohsiung Mayor C
UNITED STATESCornell prosecutor replacedNew York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday appointed a special prosecutor to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s abilit
A Chinese financing company owned by several local government entities has funded the purchase of restricted Nvidia Corp chips, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators, suggesting state support for an illicit trade that Washington worries is fueling China’s artificial intelligence (AI)
Fourteen junior-high school students at Huaxing High School in Taipei were yesterday rushed to local hospitals after eating nuts from tung trees on the school campus during the noon break, with 13 expected to be discharged by the evening and one remaining under observation.Citing accounts provided b
The Ministry of Environment’s Resource Circulation Administration has launched a mobile phone recycling event open to locals and international residents in Taiwan, with an iPhone and an Apple Watch being offered as lucky draw prizes.The event has about 2,700 recycling sites nationwide and would run
The spectacular rise of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) in recent months has fueled great excitement among individual stock traders. Gate News reported that the stock market swelled 59 percent in the first half of this year, with margin trading volume surging nearly 20 percent. Local newspapers tel
A large lion-themed inflatable is displayed near the 350-year-old Taiwanfu Chenghuang Temple in Tainan yesterday. Six distinct versions of the newly unveiled character “Chiang Chiang,” created by the Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau, have been deployed at various local temples to launch the city’s aut
