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Taipei, Aug. 29 (CNA) A group of Filipino migrant workers gathered in front of the Control Yuan in Taipei on Monday, calling for an investigation into the handling of their complaints to the local government labor office in Kaohsiung.

About 5.49 million households yesterday lost power in one of the nation’s largest power disruptions since 2017 due to a switch malfunction at Kaohsiung’s Hsinta Power Plant (興達電廠), the Ministry of Economic Affairs said. The incident sent the power plant offline, leading to a circuit malfunction at the Longqi Extra High Voltage Substation (龍崎超高壓變電所), which caused several power plants in the south to shut down. About 10.5 million kilowatts was lost during the incident, Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) said. The Hsinta plant accounts for about 6 percent of the nation...

LIGHTS OUT: Taipower activated liquefied natural gas, hydroelectric and coal-fired power plants to make up for a malfunction that shut down plants in the southBy Lisa Wang / Staff reporter

Annual sales generated by a group of technology industrial parks in central and southern Taiwan supervised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs reached a new high last year on the back of strong global demand for high-tech gadgets, the ministry said on Monday. Data compiled by the Export Processing Zone Administration showed that revenue posted by firms in the parks in Taichung, Kaohsiung and Pingtung County totaled NT$465.6 billion (US$16,69 billion), up 16 percent from 2020. It was the first time that firms operating in the parks had combined sales of more than NT$450 billion, exports agency ...