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Beyond the usual memorable factors — fears about the millennium bug, the dawn of the 21st century — January 1, 2000, is a significant date for residents of Brookline, Massachusetts. In the town on the outskirts of Boston, vendors are legally banned from selling tobacco products and e-cigarettes to anyone born after Y2K. The legislation came into effect in September last year, after a vote in November 2020, making Brookline the first US town to implement such a law, in the hopes of gradually ...

Minister of the Interior Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) on Monday said the police would start keeping records on people with criminal records found carrying baseball bats, knives or other weapons in their vehicles. Officials said the decision was in response to a recent spate of violent attacks, including an assault with a baseball bat on a 19-year-old student in Taichung after he sideswiped a car, and the stabbing of a convenience store clerk after the employee asked a customer to wear a mask. While...