Ministry looking to help 80 Taiwanese leave India
By Lu Yi-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said that it is assisting more than 80 Taiwanese citizens to return from India, but panned media reports that it had been against the idea.
Six staff members of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC) in India have tested positive for COVID-19: two diplomats and four employees, with one of them having become seriously ill, the ministry said.
The TECC’s deputy director-general is reportedly one of the patients, although the ministry on Wednesday said that it could not give out the patients’ details out of consideration for their privacy.
Ministry pushes LNG project farther offshore
‘NO LONGER AFFECTED’: With the LNG facility an additional 455m away from shore, the project would no longer require dredging the ocean floor, the ministry said
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday announced that it would move a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off Taoyuan farther from shore to “minimize any impact on algal reefs.”
In an effort to prevent the project from being blocked by a referendum, the ministry said that it had updated its proposal for the nation’s third LNG receiving terminal to move it another 455m from shore.
New wells pose no bullet train safety threats: Water agency
04/11/2021 07:27 PM
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Taipei, April 11 (CNA) Newly drilled wells providing much needed water in central Taiwan amid a serious drought will not cause further ground subsidence that could threaten the safety of Taiwan s bullet train line, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) said Sunday.
The newly drilled wells in Changhua and Yunlin counties are in areas that do not have ground subsidence problems, the WRA said in a statement in response to concerns raised by a newspaper Sunday that the wells could cause further subsidence along the bullet train route and threaten the line s safety.
Environmental Impact Assessment: The importance of throwing shade
Trees and parks benefit the mental health of city dwellers, yet Taiwan’s large cities aren’t doing enough to ensure that they are cared for properly and everyone has access to them
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
It’s official: Trees are good for the mental health of city dwellers.
According to a study published in Scientific Reports at the end of last year, individuals living within 100m of a high density of street trees in Leipzig, Germany, were prescribed antidepressant prescriptions at a lower rate than those who didn’t have many trees in their neighborhood.