Seven Kaohsiung high schools are offering courses in semiconductor and digital technologies with the aim to improve local industry and tentative plans to expand the program citywide if the pilot proves successful.

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Taipei Times 

Kaohsiung schools offering courses on semiconductors

Kaohsiung prosecutors yesterday indicted nine men who in the middle of August allegedly smuggled 154 cats from China, saying that they face prison sentences of up to seven years.
The case sparked a debate over pet smuggling and the handling of seized animals, as authorities euthanized the cats over fears of rabies.

Cats

Nine indicted in controversial cat smuggling case

French Office in Taipei Director Jean-Francois Casabonne-Masonnave talks about his country to a group of students at National Sun Yat-sen University during a visit to Kaohsiung yesterday. He said that French and Taiwanese see France slightly differently.

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France

The Korea Times

[Opinion] French connection

Government officials should honestly face major safety issues that were exposed by the fire in Kaohsiung’s Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building, the New Power Party (NPP) said yesterday.
NPP Kaohsiung City Councilor Lin Yu-kai (林于凱) said that neglect to thoroughly carry out public safety inspections in the building was one of the main reasons that the fire caused so many casualties.

Fire exposed safety rule laws: NPP

CGTN

Female suspect in Kaohsiung blaze faces up to 5 years in jail

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday pledged to reform the nation’s building regulations, two days after a fire in Kaohsiung killed 46 people.
The death toll from the fire at the 13-story Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building in the early hours of Thursday was the second-highest in Taiwan’s history, behind a February 1995 blaze at the Weierkang Club in Taichung that killed 64.

Tsai pledges fire safety reforms

A resident fleeing a burning building in Kaohsiung found the exits blocked, but still made it out safely, while at least 46 residents died in the fire. 
The blaze in the 40-year-old Cheng Chung Cheng (城中城) building on Fubei Road in Yancheng District (鹽埕) was extinguished at 7:17am, about four hours after the Kaohsiung Fire Bureau was notified of the fire at 2:54am.

Survivors narrowly escape blaze

The death toll from a fire in southern Taiwan that engulfed a building overnight has further risen to 46, according to officials Thursday who said at least another 41 people were injured.

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