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By Kao Chia-ho / Staff reporterFewer young Taiwanese are employed, while the number of older workers has increased by more than 64,000 over the past three years, Ministry of Labor data showed, indicating the effects of societal aging.

SPECIAL ALLOCATION: More than 100 vessels would receive new equipment for NT$3.2 billion under the Sea-Air Combat Power Improvement Plan, a source saidBy Chung Li-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

By Grant Dexter / Staff reporterNew Taipei City is this month to host the North Asian Gaelic Games, the first international competition of its kind in Taiwan.

By Yang Cheng-yu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe legislature yesterday passed an amendment to the Marine Pollution Control Act （海洋污染防治法）, including higher penalties for polluters and a special corporate tax that would help establish an ocean pollution prevention fund.

CRACKDOWN: Previous legislation against scalpers is too lenient, but the new rules would give authorities better weapons to severely punish offenders, a lawmaker saidBy Yang Cheng-yu and Jason Pan / Staff reporters

REPELLING ANY INVASION: The field exercises in northern Taiwan would focus on the defense of coastal areas that China could try to use to land in the nation, an official saidBy Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

MALTREATMENT? Rights advocates said some of the park’s enclosures are too small to allow animals to roam more freely and living conditions remain poorBy Liao Hsueh-ju and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer

By Jason Pan / Staff reporter, with CNAThis year’s Hohaiyan Gongliao Rock Festival is back on after the New Taipei City Government late on Thursday made a policy U-turn on an earlier decision to cancel the event.

In the U.S., Mother's Day is honored every year on the second Sunday in May. In Mexico, the day to celebrate mothers is on May 10.

Tunisia and Egypt are edging closer to major debt crises which could suck in a volatile North Africa region and pose tough choices to wealthy Gulf Arab neighbours, investors and analysts warn.