Author: kht-root

On Nov. 28, the Pingtung County Police Bureau [屏東縣警察局] rolled out a holiday traffic playbook for Taiwan’s southern tourist corridor, pairing smart signals and CMS alerts with targeted lane reversals and a night pedestrian zone on Kenting Street [墾丁大街].

Authorities note that only designated zones are open; military activities continue in other sections of the base.

The line would connect Daliao (大寮) to Linyuan (林園), forming the southern section of the Kaohsiung MRT circle and linking major industrial and residential districts.

The site is connected via light rail to the Kaohsiung Machinery Plant redevelopment (高雄機廠) and the 205th Arsenal area. Officials expect major changes in the “fourth quadrant” of the circular line within five years.

The detained workers revealed that one of their colleagues, another Indonesian worker, was hiding inside the plant’s -6°C freezer. Then the cops were told that another migrant worker, a man from mainland China, was still hiding inside the freezer.

The first emperor of China dispatched expeditions to the world’s far corners with a life-and-death task: find and bring back the elixir of immortality. Most famous among these explorers was a Taoist priest named Xu Fu, who sailed into the Eastern Seas. Xu Fu and his fleet vanished. Some legends say he settled in Japan. In Tim McGirk’s novel, Xu Fu goes beyond Japan, traversing the Pacific Ocean and landing upon the shores of the land of the May

Hengchun Industrial & Commercial Vocational High School’s AI robotics team has once again defeated university competitors, capturing a record-setting fourth consecutive gold medal. (Photo courtesy of school)

By Staff KAOHSIUNG — A major zoning overhaul for Zuoying District was halted on Tuesday, November 25, after multiple environmental groups protested at the Ministry of the Interior’s Urban Planning Review Committee, warning that the plan threatens Lotus Pond (蓮池潭) views, reduces green space, and leaves Zuoying Naval Base (左營軍港) exposed to surrounding high-rise development. The proposal was sent back to the special review panel and did not pass. Environmental organizations—including the Lotus Pond Protection Alliance (蓮池潭守護聯盟), Taiwan Forest City Association, Taiwan Arborists Association, and the Kaohsiung Citizens’ Supervisory Alliance—argued that the new zoning rules remove height protections around Lotus…

Widened negotiation room in Kaohsiung could point to the market returning to fundamentals.

Worldwide, roughly 1 in 90 births, about 1.1 percent, results from a twin pregnancy. In Taiwan, however, twins account for an estimated 2 to 3 percent of all newborns, a rate nearly triple the global average. Experts attribute the rise to wider use of assisted reproductive technology. For her latest video report, Emily Liu of Kaohsiung American School -who is herself a twin- takes a closer look at why Taiwan is seeing so many double arrivals.