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A majority of voters yesterday rejected a proposal to restart construction on the mothballed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮), with 4,262,451 votes against and 3,804,755 in favor. Initiated by nuclear power advocate Huang Shih-hsiu (黃士修), the referendum asked voters: “Do you agree that the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be activated for commercial operations?” The plant was most recently mothballed in 2015 when Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was president, one year after former Democratic Progressive Part...

CLEAR RESULT: An opponent of nuclear power said the plant was a symbol of the struggles of the past, while the initiator of the question suggested a new reactor on-siteBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter

The cross-Taiwan Straits situation has become increasingly intense in 2021, with international observers and media raising concerns over a potential China-US conflict in the region in the near future. Few outside China understand why national reunification with Taiwan is perhaps the biggest and most unshakable desire shared by the whole Chinese nation, and why the Chinese mainland has such an unshakable determination to realize this goal.

Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) warned people in parts of northern Taiwan of extremely heavy rain or heavy rain on Monday due to the impact of northeasterly winds.

The United States and China are squaring off in a global competition with a scale unseen since the Cold War.