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Taipei, March 17 (CNA) A clinical study in Taiwan on mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccine boosters has found that the Moderna brand is the most effective when administered as the third shot, the director of the study said Thursday.

A clinical study on mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines has found that booster shots with the Moderna vaccine are the most effective, the study’s lead researcher said yesterday. The study, which began in December last year at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and whose results were published yesterday, involved 340 participants with an average age of 35 who had received two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, lead researcher Chiu Cheng-hsun (邱政洵), who is the vice superintendent of the hosp...

‘MILD SIDE EFFECTS’: Moderna recipients’ antibody levels rose 47.7-fold within 28 days after their booster shot, a Chang Gung Memorial Hospital study showed/ Staff Writer, with CNA

By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Mainland Affairs Council （MAC） in a report vowed to continue organizing youth camps on cross-strait relations to better educate young Taiwanese on “united front” strategies employed by Beijing.

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) in a report vowed to continue organizing youth camps on cross-strait relations to better educate young Taiwanese on “united front” strategies employed by Beijing. The report on the council’s work to counteract China’s targeting of young Taiwanese was required by the Legislative Yuan to unfreeze this year’s funding for certain MAC projects. The council said that it has organized a study camp on cross-strait relations for college students, drawing 65 pa...

Taipei, March 13 (CNA) New Taipei is threatening heavy fines against American pit bull terrier owners who abandon their dogs in the city and offering rewards to people to help solve such cases after two pit bull terriers were left to fend for themselves in the past two weeks.

Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) on Saturday said he hoped the new reservist training regimen launched a week earlier would boost the country’s combat readiness. The reserve force plays an important part in Taiwan’s defense, but the training provided previously was insufficient, because it only lasted five to seven days, Chiu said after watching reservists conduct a drill at a shooting range in New Taipei City’s Linkou District (林口). Reservists in Taiwan were pr...

New Taipei, March 12 (CNA) Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) said Saturday he hoped a new reservist training regimen launched a week ago will boost the country's combat readiness.

Taoyuan, March 6 (CNA) Around 400 reservists reported for duty at an elementary school in northern Taiwan's Taoyuan City on Saturday to begin a new, more intensified reservist training regimen dubbed the "toughest ever" in the nation, as the government tries to improve the combat readiness of the reserve forces amid rising cross-strait tension.

By Hsieh Wu-hsiung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe first batch of about 500 reservists yesterday reported to Shanjiao Elementary School in Taoyuan’s Lujhu District （蘆竹） to undergo a new, more intensive 14-day reservist training program.