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The Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) new EMU3000 intercity express train set out on its maiden voyage from Taitung Station yesterday. Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), who attended the inauguration, said the addition of EMU3000 trains would significantly improve the quality of service and provide greater passenger capacity. The EMU3000 is the TRA’s newest model of intercity express train. It was imported from Japan to the Port of Hualien on July 30, and after a series of tests and modifications, passed the TUV Rheinland Group’s safety verification process on Tuesday last week. Th...

By Chen Hsien-yi / Staff reporterThe Taiwan Railways Administration’s （TRA） new EMU3000 intercity express train set out on its maiden voyage from Taitung Station yesterday.

Nearly 70 percent of Keelung residents are dissatisfied with the plans for an MRT system for the city, a survey conducted earlier this month by the New Power Party (NPP) showed. Construction of the Keelung MRT system is to proceed in two phases, based on the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ preliminary plan. The section between Taipei’s Nangang District (南港) and Keelung City’s Badu Station (八堵) is to be built first, which would be on a different route from the one currently used by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA). The second phase would involve extending ...

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced that booster shots would be administered from Friday, as it reported 11 new imported cases of COVID-19. The CECC said that it would begin administering mixed vaccinations using all brands from Friday, following a recommendation from the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The advisory committee said that booster shots are urgently needed for people aged 18 or over who received a second dose five or more months ago. Priority would be given to those in the top four groups, which cover fro...

CHOICE OF JAB: People who received their second dose five or more months ago would be able to select a Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Medigen vaccine/ Staff writer, with CNA