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ICRT NEWS MAY 8 2025
Ministry halts plan to open 6 jobs categories to foreign students
發布於 2025-05-08 15:15:14
The Ministry of Labor has paused a plan to revise regulations that would have allowed foreign students who have graduated from Taiwan universities to work in six types of ntermediate-skilled jobs.
The pause comes after the ministry in March first introduced the plan to tackle (處理) labor shortages.
The plan covered amendments to regulation allowing such foreign students to take employment as assistant nurses, intercity and city bus drivers and safety management system personnel, inventory clerks, cargo vehicle drivers and cargo vehicle driving assistants.
The amended regulations do not include those provisions.
Government says data shows pedestrian traffic accident-related fatalities
發布於 2025-05-08 15:15:14
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The Ministry of Transport says Taiwan's roads are becoming significantly safer for pedestrians - as it recorded the lowest traffic fatality rate in over six years between January and February.
According to the ministry, there 469 fatalities in the first two months of this year, representing the lowest 30-day death toll since 2019.
Of that number, there were 62 pedestrian-related deaths - and that's a record low since the government began tracking that specific category of traffic fatalities (死亡) in 2008.
Government data terms of counties and cities, shows that Tainan saw the greatest increase in traffic-related deaths compared with last year, while Yunlin County recorded the highest increase in the number of pedestrian deaths.
India-Pakistan on edge as their militaries exchange gunfire
發布於 2025-05-08 15:15:14
Indian army says atleast one soldiers has died as gunfire and bombing continue on India Pakistan border.
The region remains tense (繃緊的) a day after India fired missiles into Pakistani territory - aimed it says at terrorist infrastructure.
Islamabad has now asked its army to carry out corresponding action.
Ishan Garg tells us more.
Venezuela Acknowledges Opposition Leaving Argentine Diplomatic Compound
發布於 2025-05-08 15:15:14
Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they
had sheltered for over a year.
But it has denied that their arrival to the United States occurred under an international rescue operation as characterized by the political faction and
the U.S. State Department.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on Wednesday said the group’s movements were negotiated with the government and further alleged that one of the six people who entered the Argentine ambassador’s residence in March left the compound in August, contradicting (（與…）相矛盾) earlier statements from the opposition.