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The Chinese Christian Relief Association yesterday called on people to join a fundraising campaign for delivering necessities to underprivileged families, as many are struggling during the COVID-19 outbreak. After a level 3 COVID-19 alert was implemented nationwide on May 19, the association’s 1919 Food Bank, TSMC Charity Foundation, convenience store chain 7-Eleven and its Good Neighbor Foundation partnered to launch a digital fundraising campaign through 7-Eleven’s platforms. The campaign funds food packages that contain rice, oil, dried noodles and canned food, with each package costin...

By Yang Mien-jieh / Staff reporterThe Chinese Christian Relief Association yesterday called on people to join a fundraising campaign for delivering necessities to underprivileged families, as many are struggling during the COVID-19 outbreak.

RFA Police in China have returned three Lao female trafficking victims to their native Laos, sources in Laos told RFA. The two women and one girl were separately duped into traveling to China on promises of jobs or marriages, only to be sold as brides. They each escaped their captors and sought help with the local police, who helped them return to Laos on Feb. 21, a Lao Women’s Union member from Oudomxay province, in the country’s northwest, told RFA’s Lao Service. The source identified two of the returning victims by name as Deng, 28, and Cheng Moua, 17. Both of these vic...

DGH plans safety measures after pileup DEFENSIVE DRIVING: Installing more detectors alone would not prevent another accident if drivers do not know how to handle low visibility situations, an expert said By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter The Directorate-General of Highways (DGH) is working with the Central Weather Bureau to install more fog detectors along the Sibin Expressway (Highway 61) after two people died and eight were injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Sunday morning. A preliminary investigation by the police showed that the deadly ...