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A light show at Yehliu Geopark (野柳公園) would disturb bird habitats during peak migration season, bird enthusiasts said this week. The North Coast and Guanyinshan National Scenic Area Administration is holding Yehliu night tours until May 1 at the area in New Taipei City’s Wanli District (萬里). Centered around the Queen’s Head (女王頭) rock formation, the tours feature multiple light displays, as well as a show on the water every half hour. However, members of Birds Taiwan and th...

Tainan’s two animal shelters last year boasted an adoption rate of nearly 80 percent after four years of structural improvements and professional training initiatives. From 2018 to last year, the city received NT$12 million (US$431,267) in federal funding to improve facilities at the shelters, the Tainan Animal Health Inspection and Protection Office said on Tuesday. The result was a 79 percent adoption rate last year, with 2,596 pets finding new homes, it said. The success is due in part to t...

Fishers and environmentalists in a contentious deadlock over a proposed ban on harvesting egg-bearing crabs prompted the Fisheries Agency on Monday to suspend discussions until late next month. A blanket prohibition on the capture or sale of female crabs carrying fertilized eggs, eliminating a nine-month window, was proposed last month by National Chengchi University professor Cheng Tung-liao (鄭同僚). A petition seeking stricter rules has garnered more than 5,600 signatures since it was post...

With persistent demand from Taiwanese businesses and an anticipated wave of reshoring amid changes in the global trade and investment landscape, the Cabinet on Thursday extended the “Invest in Taiwan” initiative until 2024. The extention would provide an additional NT$430 billion (US$15.5 billion) in financing for participating firms, while holding them to standards that would advance the nation’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The initiative, which began in 2019 during US-Chin...

The film made in China is meant to inspire nationalist sentiment in the Chinese population while divorcing them from the actual revolutionary struggles of the past.

A majority of voters yesterday rejected a proposal to restart construction on the mothballed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮), with 4,262,451 votes against and 3,804,755 in favor. Initiated by nuclear power advocate Huang Shih-hsiu (黃士修), the referendum asked voters: “Do you agree that the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be activated for commercial operations?” The plant was most recently mothballed in 2015 when Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of ...

CLEAR RESULT: An opponent of nuclear power said the plant was a symbol of the struggles of the past, while the initiator of the question suggested a new reactor on-siteBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter

The cross-Taiwan Straits situation has become increasingly intense in 2021, with international observers and media raising concerns over a potential China-US conflict in the region in the near future. Few outside China understand why national reunification with Taiwan is perhaps the biggest and most unshakable desire shared by the whole Chinese nation, and why the Chinese mainland has such an unshakable determination to realize this goal.

Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) warned people in parts of northern Taiwan of extremely heavy rain or heavy rain on Monday due to the impact of northeasterly winds.

The United States and China are squaring off in a global competition with a scale unseen since the Cold War.