ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News Report, Sep 9–transcript
Mask supplier detained for passing off non-medical masks The owner of a company in Changhua County has been detained for allegedly supplying pharmacies in Nantou with non-medical grade surgical masks from unknown sources, prosecutors said yesterday.The company is accused of procuring 610,000 masks from an unknown source and falsely labeling them to look as if […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News Report, Sep 2–transcript
Local revolt against American pork All three KMT-led central Taiwan governments have responded strongly to the party’s call to strike back against President Tsai’s decision to open the country to sales of American pork, which contains the leanness-enhancing agent ractopamine.Taichung announced that existing local regulations have fines ranging from NT$30,000 to NT$100,000 if any ractopamine […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News–transcript
CECC and Changhua County at odds Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), last week decided to launch an investigation into the Changhua County Health Bureau, saying it was not clear why the bureau had tested an asymptomatic teenager for COVID-19 after his recent return from the United States.The […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News–transcript
TCM poisoning scandal continues to widen A third traditional Chinese medicine clinic has been added to the list of places prescribing medicines to patients containing highly toxic cinnabar and lead tetroxide, which had led to many cases of organ failure and could potentially be fatal.The number of people confirmed poisoned has risen to 28 as […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News–transcript
TCM poison scandal spreads A second Taichung-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic has been ordered to suspend business after city authorities found it had also allegedly prescribed drugs laced with heavy metals to patients.A court, meanwhile, has now ordered these two traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and one medicine dealer based in Taichung to be detained […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News Report transcript
TCM clinic poisons clients A doctor at a Taichung-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic has been suspended for 30 days for prescribing drugs containing heavy metals that led to lead poisoning in at least fifteen patients.The case first came to light after a Taichung City Councilor told reporters Friday he had been hospitalized for a […]
ICRT Weekly Central Taiwan News Report transcript
Taichung mayor back at work following surgery Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen arrived for work, and addressed reporters and the City Council from a wheelchair following hip surgery.Describing it as an old injury, she said she decided to have the surgery on the advice of doctors and to “get it over and done with.”Her vice mayor […]
Central Taiwan weekly report–ICRT transcript
Big nightlife crackdown Police fanned out across central Taiwan as part of a nationwide nightlife crackdown late last week.In Taichung, several confrontations between police and nightlife customers occurred, including one with a man brandishing a katana.Another incident occurred with an inebriated woman that led to her being pepper sprayed and subdued.The police also reported problems […]
