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Taiwan mulls extending airport virus tests until Lunar New Year

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A two-week program offering virus testing for airline passengers arriving from China, Hong Kong, and Macau could be extended until the Lunar New Year, Taiwan’s healt...

Nurses and doctors protest conditions for healthcare workers in Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals gathered in Taipei for a protest march on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building on Sunday (Nov....

Taiwan considering allowing friends, consenting adults to be organ donars

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — At the moment, recipients of living organ donations must be relatives within the fifth degree of kinship to the donor or their spouse, according to Article 8 of the Human ...

Health Ministry finds an average of 33 children abused in Taiwan daily

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare reports that child abuse continues to be prevalent in Taiwan, with 11,950 reported child protection cases last year, an average of 33 ca...

Taiwan sets pay raise for nurses, union says it is not enough

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The health ministry said on Monday (Nov. 6) that all nurses in Taiwan will receive greater take-home pay by the start of next year, but the nurses union said the increase ...

Medical staff protest for better working conditions in Taipei

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Approximately 500 frontline medical staff took to the streets in Taipei to protest for their labor rights on Sunday (Oct. 22). Medical workers put forward major demands...

Nursing shortage in Taiwan worsens as 5,000 leave annually

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), there are only 186,000 nurses in the domestic healthcare system, with losses of about 5,...

1 dead, 356 injured in Taiwan by Typhoon Koinu

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Central Emergency Operations Center (CEOC) on Thursday evening (Oct. 5) confirmed that one person had died, 356 were injured, and there were 3,601 damage reports after...

Japan's sleep-deprived employees embrace the workplace nap

Japan's ministry of health and welfare has called on the public to sleep longer and better after two recent reports determined that Japanese people are not getting enough shut-eye. And experts po...

Shopee Taiwan removes AI-porn that appears to depict children

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Online retailer Shopee has removed AI-generated pornographic images depicting what appeared to be children after the health ministry called them illegal. The Liberty Ti...

3 Taiwanese food companies mislabel liquid eggs containing imports as entirely local

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taipei City Department of Health said on Wednesday (Sept. 20) that Fushang Sheng Co., Ltd. had mixed imported eggs with domestic eggs in their liquid egg production, f...

Taiwan health ministry to evaluate feasibility of free health insurance for elderly

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) on Wednesday (Sept. 6) said the government will conduct a study to establish a more comprehensive system for health insurance for the eld...

High demand for Taiwan's free psychological counseling

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s plan to provide three free psychological consultations for people between the ages of 15 and 30 beginning Aug. 1 received an overwhelming response from the ...

Taiwan’s 10 poorest communities according to family income

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As of the first quarter of 2023, the number of individuals classified as low-to-middle income in Taiwan totaled 276,649, according to the latest data from the Ministry of ...

Movement of fatal amoeba infection case in Taiwan revealed

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An investigation found that the woman who visited a New Taipei indoor aquatic facility and subsequently died from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection had not visited othe...