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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taipei, Oct. 26 (CNA) A privately built and operated solar power plant was inaugurated in the southern city of Tainan Friday, with a total installed capacity of 1.2 million watts. The facility is the largest single solar power plant in Taiwan...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
The Tourism Bureau recently received complaints from Chinese and Singapore an visitors that certain fruit stalls at Shihlin Night Market were selling four atemoyas for NT$1,800 ( US $62) and four bags of sliced fruit for NT$1,100.
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taipei, Oct. 25 (CNA) Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta pledged Thursday that fire safety at health facilities will be improved within two months in the wake of the country's worst-ever hospital fire that killed 12 people in southern Taiwan two days...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 8 months ago
Firefighters found a body inside a City Heights home early Wednesday after extinguishing a fire. The blaze at the second-story apartment on Wightman Street near 42nd Street was reported just before 4:30 a.m., a dispatcher with the San Diego Fire-...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
A Taiwanese court on Wednesday sentenced a man to life in prison for shooting at a rally on the eve of key local elections in 2010, which left one man dead and wounded the son of a top politician. Lin Cheng-wei was convicted of murder by the high...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Former President Chen Shui-bian was moved to the psychiatric unit of the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei Wednesday, according to a hospital statement. Tests carried out after Chen entered the hospital on September 21 showed he suffered from a...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Wednesday, the day the government promised the public would feel' the results of its efforts to turn the situation around. President Ma Ying-jeou 's approval rating still stood at a record low of 13 percent, a month after he publicly encouraged his...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Late last month, President Ma Ying-jeou wanted Premier Sean Chen's Cabinet to show results that people can actually feel within a month in its efforts to boost the economy. In fact, promoting investment is the most fundamental way to uplift the...
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Fox
| 8 months ago
Taiwan Police in Taiwan say a nursing home resident has confessed to setting a fire that killed 12 people and injured 70 at the facility. Police have not identified the man, who was arrested after the fire devastated the nursing home at 3 a.m...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou mourned the deaths of 12 patients who lost their lives in southern Taiwan Tuesday in the worst-ever hospital fire in Taiwan's history. In addition to offering condolences to the families of those who were...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) Premier Sean Chen has decided to limit the recipients of year-end bonuses for retired public sector employees to the socially disadvantaged and those who are injured or killed in the line of duty, amid public outrage over the...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Taiwan Police in Taiwan said a nursing home resident confessed to an early morning fire that ripped through the facility Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 60, many of them too weak to get out of their beds to escape. Police did not identify the...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
47 Zeenews Bureau Taipei: The devastating fire in Taiwan's Hsinying hospital on Tuesday, that killed 12 and wounded more than 70, is said to have been set by a resident patient, according to police. Taiwan Police have not identified the man, who they...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Premier Sean Chen proposed Tuesday that the contested year-end bonus for government employees should be restricted to retirees drawing less than NT$20,000 ( US $683) a month and to victims of professional accidents or their relatives. Earlier Tuesday,...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
At least 12 people were killed and 60 injured when an early-hours blaze tore through a hospital catering mainly to bed-ridden and mentally ill seniors in southern Taiwan on Tuesday, health authorities said. The fire started in a nursing facility...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
The most serious hospital fire in Taiwan history killed 12 patients and injured more than 70 in Hsinying, Tainan City, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The blaze started in a storage room on the second floor at the Peimen branch of the state-...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
22 The fire gutted a nursing facility housing mainly bed-bound senior patients in the southern city of Tainan [AFP] A fire has swept through a hospital in southern Taiwan, killing at least 12 people and leaving 60 others injured, health authorities...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taiwanese officials say a midnight fire at a nursing home has killed 12 elderly patients and injured 70 others. Hsinying Hospital official Tsai Ming-shih says the 12 patients died of smoke inhalation early Tuesday as fire tore through the nursing...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) Twelve patients were killed in a pre-dawn fire that gutted a government-run hospital in a rural part of Tainan in southern Taiwan Tuesday, according to fire department officials. Thirty-seven other patients have been sent to...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Taiwan hospital fire kills 12 elderly residents Investigations have begun into the cause of the blaze An early morning fire at a hospital in southern Taiwan has killed 12 patients and injured at least 60 more. The fire swept through a nursing home...
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China News
| 8 months ago
A big fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a hospital in South Taiwan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 60 others, most of whom were patients. The fire started at a medical care facility close to the Bei-Men branch of the Sinying Hospital...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
At least 12 people were killed and 72 wounded when a blaze tore through a hospital in southern Taiwan on Tuesday, health authorities said. The fire started in the early hours in a nursing facility housing mainly bed-bound patients in Tainan city, a...
