Taipei: Premier Cho Jung-tai on Monday ordered health authorities to complete within a week all testing of samples linked to tainted cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp. and draft amendments to food safety regulations within the same timefr…
Taichung: The Taichung City government on Monday identified two additional batches of edible oil products contaminated with excessive levels of the carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), along with hundreds of downstream businesses that received products ma…
Taipei: Taiwan’s health authorities will not release test results obtained for samples from 29 batches of cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp. between April and June amid concerns some of the samples were falsified. Health Minister Shih Chu…
Taipei: Rail and air services around Taiwan and most ground transportation services to Taoyuan International Airport had largely returned to normal by Sunday afternoon as Typhoon Bavi moved away from Taiwan, but ferry services to outlying islands rema…
Taipei: Typhoon Bavi left at least 135 people injured across Taiwan before moving away from the island, while the typhoon command center lowered the alert level for a barrier lake on Hualien County’s Wanli River on Sunday. The Central Emergency Operat…
Taipei: Taiwan will be outside the storm radius of Typhoon Bavi by late Saturday night or early Sunday morning after it reached the island’s northeastern tip at around 1 a.m. Saturday, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). CWA forecas…
