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Four of Kaohsiung’s nine direct Japanese destinations had July load factors below 90% as Tigerair Taiwan prepared scheduled Ishigaki and Komatsu launches.

A Hualien hospital says a thin medical membrane and a healing-rich part of patients’ own blood helped close severe eye holes after earlier operations failed.

British YouTuber Lee Da-feng’s rain-soaked complaint resonated with Kaohsiung residents after an unusually wet stretch in late August.

Kaohsiung’s August rainfall broke a record dating to 1931 and reached 93% of the southern Taiwan city’s annual average.

Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai says the Purple Line review is progressing while the planned 23-station route remains under central scrutiny.

Prosecutors suspect that some printed circuit boards manufactured in China were shipped to Taiwan and relabeled as “Made in Taiwan,” possibly involving document forgery and false product labeling. Unimicron has said it will cooperate with the investigation and that its operations and finances have not been materially affected.

Ko also wrote a card saying, “Mayor Chen, I’ll take care of Kaohsiung. It’s your turn to travel around the world,” according to the KMT caucus. The message referred to her bid to succeed him, but the card was not ultimately presented with the backpack.

Kaohsiung plans to expand its public bicycle fleet by nearly 10% in November, including 235 electric-assist bikes.

A rain-soaked section of Jingwen Street in Kaohsiung sank up to 1.5 meters as crews restricted traffic and investigated the cause.

By KHT Staff KAOHSIUNG — Swiss train manufacturer Stadler has presented a full-size mock-up of the driverless metro trains it is building for Kaohsiung’s future Yellow Line. The trains will be Stadler’s first metro vehicles to enter service in Asia, according to Railway Gazette International, which first reported the unveiling. Kaohsiung’s Mass Rapid Transit Bureau has ordered 25 three-car trainsets under a wider NT$43 billion contract covering rolling stock and railway systems. The contract was awarded in 2022 to a consortium of Singapore’s ST Engineering, Stadler and Siemens Mobility. Stadler is manufacturing the trains at its plant in St. Margrethen,…