Brown Line riders can check how crowded cars are
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Passengers of Taipei MRT System’s Wenhu Line (Brown Line) can check how crowded the carriages are using the Taipei MRT app, as well as displays in the stations, Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC) said yesterday.
The company has made the service available on the busiest MRT Line after testing it for one year on the Bannan Line (Blue Line). It is also offering it at a time when the nation has seen a rise in local COVID-19 cases.
A survey conducted by TRTC in 2016 identified the 10 most crowded sections of MRT lines during peak hours, nine of which were on the Brown Line. The most busy section on the list was between Zhongxiao Fuxing and Nanjing Fuxing stations.
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Aboriginal employees of Taipei Rapid Transit Corp participate in a ceremony in Taipei yesterday to launch the company’s annual charity campaign. During the four-month campaign, the company is to provide a series of services to the alma maters of outstanding Aboriginal workers in remote areas and organize an Aboriginal culture week in Taitung County.
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FEATURE: Older workers in high demand at local firms
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwanese firms are increasingly aiming to recruit middle-aged and older workers, as the nation’s population ages rapidly due to a falling birthrate.
Last year, Taiwan’s population shrank for the first time, with Ministry of the Interior data published last month showing 173,156 deaths and 165,249 births.
The population dropped 0.18 percent to 23,561,236, after peaking at 23,773,876 in 2019, the data showed.
While deaths were down 1.78 percent from 2019, births were at a record low, down 7.04 percent from 2019, it showed.
This continued a trend over the previous few years.
There were 8.409 births per 1,000 people last year, in 2019 there were 8.417 births and in 2018 there were 8.425, the data showed. Last year, the average number of children born to a Taiwanese woman during her lifetime was 1.05, the second-lowest in the world after South Korea’s 0.92.
Online voters pick Jabali as name for baby gorilla
Staff writer, with CNA
Jabali has garnered the most votes to be the name for the first gorilla born at the Taipei Zoo in its 106-year history, the zoo said yesterday.
The zoo on Saturday last week started an online poll for people to choose a name for the baby gorilla, born on Oct. 31.
People had until noon on Friday to choose from one of four names for the male gorilla, which were put forward by organizations involved in the zoo’s gorilla conservation program, it said.
Gorillas Diego and Tayari dote on their firstborn at the Taipei Zoo in an undated photograph.
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