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The 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. The program is operating in a scenario of defending the beach near New Taipei City’s Linkou District (林口), said 203 Brigade Third Infantry Battalion Deputy Commander Major Chen Ming-chung (陳明中). All reservists would train for about 10 hours a day, including a two-hour, 10km nighttime combat ...

Heavy traffic was yesterday reported on freeways across Taiwan, as people returned to their hometowns or flocked to major tourist hot spots at the start of the three-day weekend. Yilan County police reported traffic jams on a recently improved section of the Suhua Highway, with heavy traffic observed as early as 5:30am and peak congestion at 8am. The Freeway Bureau reported a traffic volume of 18.1 million vehicle-kilometers on Taiwan’s freeways, following an earlier prediction of 115 million ...

The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted a 37-year-old woman for allegedly scalding her mother to death in a bathtub. On June 9 last year, the mother, who was in her 70s, was reported dead in the bathroom at home. While relatives initially thought she had died from a bath-related accident, prosecutors who inspected the body noticed that there was swelling and peeled off skin. A forensic report concluded that the mother had second-degree burns over a large part of the lower half of...

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The New Taipei City government has decided to suspend on-site classes at two schools in the city, as a student at each of them has tested positive for COVID-19, city Mayor Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) said Sunday.

The New Taipei City Government is suspending on-site classes at two schools, after two students tested positive for COVID-19, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) said yesterday. A junior-high school student and an elementary-school student are among 12 domestic COVID-19 cases reported yesterday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said. Hou said that the schools in Linkou District (林口) would conduct classes remotely for two weeks, but special provisions would be provided for ...

Businesses can soon apply for licenses to test their own 5G networks, as the National Communications Commission (NCC) is planning to publicize regulations governing privately managed 5G networks in the first quarter this year. Compared with 4G, 5G networks have a lower latency, higher capacity and increased bandwidth, the commission said. Aside from consumer-oriented applications, 5G technology offers companies opportunities to create new devices and facilitate their production processes, it add...

The New Taipei City District Court sentenced a former garbage collector to two years in prison for embezzlement after the man stole 948 trash bags from his job, with the sentence suspended for five years. The ruling can be appealed. The man, surnamed Hung (洪), who worked at the Taipei Department of Environmental Protection, confessed to the theft of departmental trash bags to be used at his private enterprise, the court said. Citing the prosecution, the court said that Hung had over the past t...

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Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT, 雲達科技), a server unit of Quanta Computer Inc (廣達電腦), yesterday said it would accelerate its expansion of capacity next year to catch up with growing demand for servers and cloud-computing products. QCT has two new investments in the US totaling US$42 million to fund the expansion of laptop and server assembly lines, and to “support the future growth of our server business,” QCT president Mike Yang (楊麒令) said. “We are also adding a new fact...

Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) As a continental cold air mass forecast to linger until Tuesday, temperatures are expected to fall to below 10 degrees Celsius in northern and northeastern Taiwan and the outlying county of Kinmen late Sunday through Monday morning, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).