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Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) A subspecies of a crab-eating mongoose endemic to Taiwan has been filmed foraging for hermit crabs and cracking them open on hard surfaces using its front paws, the first-ever recorded observation of such behavior.
FINE FIRST: The owner of a cargo ship that damaged coral when it ran aground off Pingtung County in 2018 was fined NT$652,967, although NT$5.8m was soughtBy Hung Ting-hung, Tsai Tsung-hsien and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Taiwan issues a strong statement that China is using air and sea drills around the island to prepare for an invasion.
In April, I asserted that the lessons learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine might influence China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to “accelerate the timetable for a smaller scale conflict” in the Taiwan Strait, short of a full-scale amphibious invasion (China Brief, April 8). On August 4, the PLA began a series of joint live-fire exercises in six exclusion zones surrounding Taiwan, including some that imposed on Taiwan’s territorial seas (81.cn, August 6). These exercises signal Beijing’s extreme pique that U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi led a Congressi...
FENGGANG TOWNSHIP, Taiwan: Taiwan held an artillery drill on Tuesday simulating a defence against an attack as its top diplomat accused Beijing of preparing to invade the island after days of massive Chinese war games.