Taking the 921 Earthquake as inspiration, modern art exhibition “Code Blue,” held in late March, looked at how people are affected by disasters. Much of life as we know it was forever altered when the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) began its spread last December. To capture the trauma that people are experiencing around the world as…
Indictment Brought In Ching Fu Scandal Four executives at the Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co., including chairman Chen Ching-nan, were indicted by the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor’s Office on February 12 on charges of fraud, breach of trust, and banking law violations. Prosecutors recommended a 30-year prison sentence for the chairman, commutable to a NT$1 billion (US$34…
An earthquake registering at 6.3 on the Richter scale shook northern Taiwan on the morning of April 20, followed shortly afterward by a 5.0-magnitude aftershock and that evening by a number of smaller tremors. The Central Weather Bureau said the earthquake epicenter was off the coast of Hualien, and categorized it as a shallow earthquake…
