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The Ministry of Transportation and Communications, along with the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) and Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC), should consider applying for provisional attachments against Jiong De Construction to prevent the company from liquidating its assets, New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) said yesterday. On April 1, a Southeast Cement Corp silo in Kaohsiung that Jiong De was dismantling fell and knocked down a transmission tower, causing a power ...

Taipei, April 7 (CNA) Taiwan's two major rail transport services will seek a total of NT$78.63 million (US$2.73 million) in compensation from a cement company for train service disruptions caused by a power outage due to the company's faulty demolition work in the southern city of Kaohsiung on April 1, Transportation Minister Wang Kuo-tsai (王國財) said Thursday.

Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) and the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) are collectively seeking restitution of nearly NT$79 million (US$2.7 million) from Southeast Cement Corp for disrupting railway service on Friday last week, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday. The day before the nation was to observe a four-day Tomb Sweeping Day long weekend, a cement storage facility at the...

Kaohsiung, April 3 (CNA) Four suspects were released on bail early Sunday morning after they were questioned by a district prosecutors office in Kaohsiung over a demolition accident two days ago that knocked down a transmission tower, causing train stoppages that affected over 120,000 passengers.

Taipei, April 2 (CNA) State-run utility Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) and the Tainan and Kaohsiung city governments have vowed to seek compensation for the costs of a power outage caused when a cement company's demolition project went wrong on Friday and knocked over a transmission tower bordering its property.

State-run utility Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) and the Tainan and Kaohsiung city governments have vowed to seek compensation for a power outage caused on Friday when a cement company’s demolition project went wrong and a transmission tower was knocked over. The electricity tower operated by Taipower collapsed at 3:40pm when it was hit by a 52m-tall storage silo that fell the wrong way as it was being torn down at Southeast Cement Corp’s (東南水泥) Kaohsiung plant. The resulting pow...

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to prepare an investigative report on safety measures in areas near high-speed rail tracks in Kaohsiung, after a demolition site incident knocked out power near a track in the city on Friday. An electric tower operated by Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) was struck by the demolition of a Southeast Cement Corp building, leading to its collapse at 3:40pm. The collapse cut off electricity to trai...

TAIPOWER, CITIES IRATE: Four people were called in for questioning after an electricity tower was hit by a silo that fell the wrong way as it was being torn down in KaohsiungBy Hsu Li-chuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA

Taipei, April 2 (CNA) Kaohsiung City government officials have ordered Southeast Cement Corp. and its contractor Chiung Te Construction to halt work on Saturday at seven sites for non-compliance of several building and safety laws and regulations.

Taipei, April 1 (CNA) Train services operated by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. (THSRC) and the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) were partly interrupted Friday when the demolition of a cement factory went wrong and brought down an electric tower in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung City, the operators said.