2021/04/01 12:23 (CGA photo) (CGA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A Chinese man who claimed that he was longing for Taiwan s democracy and freedom successfully reached Taiwan s Kinmen County over the weekend by way of an improvised watercraft. Taiwan s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) on its Facebook page on Tuesday (March 30) announced that a Chinese national was apprehended in Kinmen County s Wuqiu Township after he made what it described as a Taiwan freedom voyage via a homemade boat. The CGA stated the man has since been transferred to the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor s Office to be investigated for violating the Immigration Act (入出國及移民法).
Chinese national Li s yellow dinghy. (CGA photo)
2021/03/31 16:32 Taipei skyline. Taipei skyline. (Wikimedia Commons photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Wednesday (March 31) confirmed six COVID-19 infections, including an elderly Taiwanese businessman who did not test positive for the virus until 87 days after he had returned to Taiwan. During a press conference on Wednesday, Health Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announcedsix imported infections, raising the country s total number to 1,030. The latest cases include two Taiwanese, two Indonesians, one Bangladeshi, and a Myanmar national, bringing the total number of imported cases to 914. Chen said case No. 1,026 is a Taiwanese man in his 70s who has lived in the U.S. for an extended period of time. He had submitted the negative result of a coronavirus test taken within three days of his flight.
Excited tourists depart Taiwan on inaugural bubble flight to Palau
04/01/2021 06:19 PM
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A group of people pose for a photo prior to boarding their flight for Palau on Thursday / CNA photo April 1, 2021
Taipei, April 1 (CNA) The inaugural flight in a travel bubble arrangement between Taiwan and Palau took off from Taoyuan on Thursday, carrying 100 exuberant tourists, as well as Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. and his delegation.
Many of the tourists on the China Airlines (CAL) flight said that more than anything else, they were excited about the water activities in Palau, on the first commercial trip to the Pacific island country since Taiwan closed its borders to inbound and outbound group tours on March 19 last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.