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By Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerCandidates to work at the Ministry of Digital Affairs would not be selected based on their personal ties with other government officials, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.

FOCUS ON TRAINS: Plans include electrifying the railway from Hualien to Taitung, extending the Taoyuan MRT, building a subway in Tainan and upgrading TRA systemsBy Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

1st Nanotechnology center in Mindanao launched

A new domestic travel subsidy program beginning tomorrow aims to encourage 7.22 million people to travel, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday, adding that the scheme would create NT$31.4 billion (US$1.05 billion) in economic value. The subsidy program, which is to run until Dec. 15, subsidizes group tours arranged by travel agencies, as well as independent travelers and visitors to amusement parks, the bureau said. A group tour can receive a subsidy of up to NT$30,000 on condition that it has at ...

‘WARM-UP EXERCISE’: Group tours with at least 15 members would be eligible for subsidies, as well as individual tourists and people visiting amusement parksBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

Wang Yi Holds Talks with Foreign Minister of Papua New Guinea Soroi Eoe

Wang Yi Holds Talks with Foreign Minister of Papua New Guinea Soroi Eoe

National Development Council Minister Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) is leading a delegation to the US to discuss exchanges on 5G development with tech giants including Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google. The delegation departed on Saturday for the 11-day visit, with stops in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, Kung said. The 41-member NextGen Telecom Delegation is scheduled to visit Microsoft, Google and Amazon.com Inc to seek opportunities for 5G cooperation, Kung said. The council has...

BICOASTAL TOUR: Delegates are to visit US tech and telecom giants while attending high-profile forums on two coasts in efforts to bolster national infrastructure plans/ Staff writer, with CNA

Retired general Lyons has been named port and supply chain envoy to the Biden-Harris Administration Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force.