/ Staff writer, with CNAA baboon yesterday died after being captured in Taoyuan due to wounds allegedly inflicted by a hunting rifle, Taoyuan authorities said.
ORIGIN UNKNOWN: The Leofoo Village Theme Park and Taipei Zoo have accounted for their baboons, as authorities continue a 12-day capture attempt/ Staff writer, with CNA
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 vehicle-kilometers for the whole long weekend, or about 1.3 times that of average normal weekday traffic.
Vehicle-kilometers measure traffic flow by multiplying the number of
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), a major iPhone assembler, yesterday tightened COVID-19 rules for workers at its factories in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢) and asked them to work remotely amid a rise in local infections.
The move came after one more worker at Compal Electronics Inc’s (仁寶電腦) factory in Pingjhen District (平鎮) yesterday tested positive for the virus, bringing the firm’s total to four cases.
“To cope with recent surges in local infections, employees residing in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District should stop coming to factories immediately and work from home instead,” Hon Hai, headquartered in New Taipei City’s Tucheng District (土城), said