Premier demands investigation into police after ruckus
By Lee Hsin-fang, Cheng Ming-hsiang and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday demanded that the Ministry of the Interior launch an investigation into police ethics following a slew of “incredibly unbecoming and unacceptable” actions by police officers in northern Taiwan.
Citing an incident at Taipei Songshan Precinct’s Zhonglun Police Station in which a group of men were released without being charged after causing damage at the station, Su said the ministry and its affiliated National Police Agency must thoroughly investigate the matter to uphold police integrity and honor.
FEATURE: ‘Taipei’s beautician’ tends the jewels of the capital
NOT ALL ROSES: Cultivating 5,000 rose bushes in a semi-tropical environment has not been easy, but Chen Chu-feng has developed ways to overcome Taipei’s obstacles
By Cheng Ming-hsiang and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
For more than a decade, “Taipei’s beautician” Chen Chu-feng (陳主奉) has dedicated herself to making northern Taiwan’s largest rose garden a crowning jewel of the capital.
After the Taipei International Flora Expo ended in 2011, a 1.3 hectare plot in Xinsheng Park (新生公園) used to display bonsai was transformed into a diverse and vibrant rose garden.
By Lin Hui-chin, Cheng Ming-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerEligibility for COVID-19 vaccines was yesterday opened to an additional 125,000 people including members of the central and local governments, and those working at hospital facilities who did not qualify under the first two priority groups making 613,000 people eligible.
Officials get vaccinated as eligibility for jab expanded
By Lin Hui-chin, Cheng Ming-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines was yesterday opened to an additional 125,000 people including members of the central and local governments, and those working at hospital facilities who did not qualify under the first two priority groups making 613,000 people eligible.
About 11,000 airline workers who fly internationally also became eligible, Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the Central Epidemic Command Center’s (CECC) spokesman, said yesterday.
About 90 percent of those airline employees are available to get inoculated as they are not on flights or under quarantine, he said, adding that the airlines can arrange vaccinations in line with work schedules.