Taiwan This Week: Taiwan Politics After the Love Has Gone
Listen to the broadcast Friday June 3rd at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. This week we discuss the crazy weather in Northern Taiwan, the chaos on Tuesday as KMT lawmakers pressed the Tsai administration hard...Continue reading
TransAsia Airways Plane Crashes in Penghu Off Taiwan
Family members of victims of yesterday evening’s crash of a TransAsia Airways twin-engine turboprop airplane in Penghu arrived on the outlying island earlier this morning – landing at Magong Airport just after 7 o’clock from Kaohsiung. Their arrival coincided with TransAsia confirming that 48 people died and ten others were injured in yesterday’s crash. The...Continue reading
Taipei Temperature Hits Year’s High at 37.8 Degrees
The temperature in Taipei set a new high for this year when the mercury hit 37.8 degrees at 12:15 PM Sunday due to a strong high pressure system over the Pacific. The previous record of 37.6 degrees was set on July 9th. In neighboring New Taipei’s Banqiao District and Keelung City, temperature also soared to...Continue reading
Temperatures Hit Year’s High in Taitung
Temperatures in Taitung County’s Da-Wu Township soared to 38.3 degrees yesterday — the highest recorded anywhere islandwide so far this year. The Central Weather Bureau says the high was recorded at 11:41 AM and was due to a Foehn wind – that being warm and dry gusts that descend the sheltered side of mountains into...Continue reading
Flooding Reported in Southwestern Taiwan
Heavy rainfall caused flooding in parts of Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung yesterday. The flooding affected train services, and power supplies, and some roads became impassable. The Taiwan Railway Administration says 11 trains out of Chiayi suffered delays due to flooding and low visibility. Some 2 thousand passengers were affected by those delays. The Chiayi City Fire...Continue reading
Record Rainfall Recorded in Taipei
Rainfall in Taipei city has set a new May record, seeing the highest rainfall during the month in nearly one hundred years, when the Taipei Observatory was first established. The Central Weather Bureau says between midnight and 3 P.M. today, Taipei received 193 millimeters of rain, an astonishing amount. The CWB also says that the...Continue reading
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