The Executive Yuan has announced that it has approved plans for an extension of the high-speed rail between Yilan and Taipei. The high-speed rail would run from Nangang in Taipei through Xizhi, Pingxi, Shuangxi, and Gongliao in New Taipei before entering Toucheng and Jiaosi in Yilan and ending at a new station...
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications continues to pursue plans to extend the high-speed rail to Yilan. The extension will run from Nangang in Taipei through Xizhi, Pingxi, Shuangxi and Gongliao in New Taipei before entering Toucheng in Yilan...
The Taiwan Railways Union has criticized plans to extend the high-speed rail from Taipei to Yilan. Plans for the high-speed rail have already conditionally cleared an environmental impact assessment, perhaps showing that the government intends to push the project through quickly...
Yilan county magistrate Lin Zi-miao has come under further scrutiny for corruption charges, due to checks worth over 100 million NT received by Lin or her family members from former KMT legislator Yang Chi-hsiung...
Lin Zi-miao, the KMT magistrate of Yilan county, was detained by police and questioned for several hours last week as part of a corruption investigation. More than thirty were questioned as part of the investigation, with thirty locations raided by police...
