New Zealand Food Festival Features Premium Products
A two-day food festival promoting New Zealand produce such as dairy products and wine opened yesterday with the aim of connecting local buyers and sellers. The festival is hosting 20 local food importers touting natural, premium and contamination-free food from New Zealand. Dean Prebble, director of the New Zealand Trade Development Centre (NZTDC), said this business-to-business fair...Continue reading
Fire Ants’ Social Pattern Determined By Supergene
A researcher has found the social patterns of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) are determined by a supergene. This discovery has been lauded as a step towards reducing the dangers of insects. John Wang (王忠信), an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica, says his research has found that the social patterns of fire ants are determined by about...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: KMT primary narrows down and heats up
Taiwan This Week is ICRT’s weekly roundup of the top news stories from around the island. This week host Keith Menconi sits down with Gavin Phipps of ICRT news, along with ICRT’s Kaohsiung correspondent Michael Smith. Tune in every Friday at 8:30pm as ICRT news is joined by expert commentators to break down the week’s biggest...Continue reading
Taiwan Spends Most on Dialysis
According to information released Wednesday by the National Health Insurance Administration, Taiwan spent more than NT$600 billion for medical care under its national insurance program in 2014, with dialysis for patients with kidney disease accounting for the biggest share. The top three areas of spending in 2014 were chronic kidney failure, dental diseases and diabetes. One...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: May Week 3
Taiwan This Week is ICRT’s weekly roundup of the top news stories from around the island. Tune in every Friday at 8:30pm as ICRT news is joined by expert commentators to break down the week’s biggest stories in Taiwan. This week host Keith Menconi sits down with ICRT’s Gavin Phipps, Nathan Batto of the Institute...Continue reading
Night Market EasyCard Payment Plan Begins Trial
Easy cards just go a little bit easier. The Easy Card Corporation announced yesterday that The smart card system can now be used to pay for food in the Qingguang and the Ningxia Night Markets. The company is touting easy card use as both more convenient and more hygienic than handling cash. According to the...Continue reading
Young Siberian White Crane Living in Taiwan
A young Siberian white crane that accidentally migrated to a northern Taiwan wetland last December has captured the attention of people in Taiwan. The young white crane, about one year old, flew into the Chingshui Wetland in Jinshan, New Taipei on Dec. 13th. It was the first time in recent memory that a Siberian crane,...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: May Week 2
Taiwan This Week is ICRT’s weekly roundup of the top news stories from around the island. Tune in every Friday at 8:30pm as ICRT news is joined by expert commentators to break down the week’s biggest stories in Taiwan. This week host Keith Menconi sits down with ICRT’s Gavin Phipps, and our Kaohsiung correspondent Michael...Continue reading
CPR Training, Defibrillators Helped to Save Life: Airport
Taoyuan International Airport is reporting that CPR training and defibrillators helped to save the life of a a passanger last month. The company says that a 65-year-old passenger fainted while he was sitting in a chair at the boarding gate for a flight to Shanghai. It says the flight’s cabin crew head and a nurse,...Continue reading
Free Hugs Going Around Taipei
Did you know that hugs are good for your health? And these young people are going around the Taipei Main Station to give away hugs! They are from Zhong-yuan University and today is the first day of their meeting the challenge of hugging strangers. Given how unaccustomed local people are to hugs, this really takes...Continue reading
Japanese Actor to Launch Photo Exhibition Tour in Taiwan
Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase is set to launch a photo exhibition tour in Taiwan later this week. Nagase says that he developed a close affinity for Taiwan after playing a role in the Taiwanese baseball film “Kano … and his new exhibition will feature images he took around the island. He says the 111 photographs...Continue reading
Organic Farms Available for Rent in Shuangxi
Those who are interested in a taste of farm life should head out to New Taipei’s Shuangxi District, where urban residents can get their hands dirty growing organic produce. Shuangxi District officials says eight qualified organic farmers in the area have set up 5 to 6 hectares of land for rent, where city-dwellers can grow...Continue reading
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