San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Dolby Laboratories Announce Partnership with...
Mayor Ed Lee and Dolby Laboratories will officially kick off the San Francisco branch of Downtown Streets Team, a Bay Area nonprofit restoring hope and rebuilding the lives of unhoused community...
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Dolby Laboratories officially kicked off the San Francisco branch of Downtown Streets Team, a Bay Area nonprofit...
View ArticleSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Dolby Laboratories Announce Partnership with...
(Source: Dolby Laboratories Inc) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mayor Ed Lee and Dolby Laboratories will officially kick off the San Francisco branch of Downtown Streets Team, a Bay Area nonprofit...
View ArticleLights to go out for Earth Hour
Several Taiwanese hotels are to join communities around the world in observing Earth Hour by turning off their lights for an hour from 8:30pm to 9:30pm today. The annual global event is held toward the...
View ArticleGlobal Tech Leader Sets Up Asia Pacific HQ In Melbourne (Premier of Victoria)
(Source: Premier of Victoria) Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis today officially welcomed Slack Technologies to Melbourne at the opening of their new Asia Pacific HQ in...
View ArticleSiew to lead delegation at Boao Forum in China
Former vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) is to lead Taiwan’s 33-member delegation at the Boao Forum for Asia that is scheduled to begin in China today. Siew is to meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang...
View ArticleTaipei mayor urges Taiwanese to aid typhoon victims
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and city officials yesterday said that the city government has opened an account to receive donations from the public for typhoon-battered regions in the Philippines....
View ArticleMayor Advocates Breast Cancer Screening (Taipei City Government)
(Source: Taipei City Government) City News Mayor Advocates Breast Cancer Screening At the invitation of Taiwan Breast Cancer Foundation Chairman Chang King-jen, Mayor Ko Wen-je and his wife attended an...
View ArticleKo urges health release for Chen
Independent Taipei mayor-elect Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday renewed his call for the release of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) due to his medical condition, adding that he will pay a visit to the...
View ArticleMayor Thanks Rescue Association for Making Taipei a Safer City (Taipei City...
(Source: Taipei City Government) City News Mayor Thanks Rescue Association for Making Taipei a Safer City On July 13, Mayor Hau Lung-bin attended the 22nd anniversary celebration of Taipei Rescue...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Vote for best person, not the richest: Twu Shiing-jer
Former department of health director-general Twu Shiing-jer (涂醒哲), the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate for Chiayi mayor in the Nov. 29 elections, said he is confident of gaining voters’...
View ArticleTaiwan plane with 58 aboard crashes in Taipei; 19 killed
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people turned on its side in midair, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking off from Taipei,...
View ArticleKo touts new water procedures
The Taipei City Government is to decide upon a new standard operating procedure to regulate water supplies in Taipei and New Taipei City during and after typhoons, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said...
View ArticleKo gets behind expansion of Taipei-Shanghai forum
The Taipei-Shanghai Forum could be expanded to become a cross-strait city forum, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday, following a meeting with Taipei Chamber of Commerce director-general Wang...
View ArticleThousands stroll with Ko
With their pets and families in tow, tens of thousands of people packed the Taipei MRT’s Taipei Zoo Station yesterday to join independent Taipei mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and his wife, Peggy...
View ArticleTaipei mayor heads for Shanghai
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is scheduled to travel to Shanghai this afternoon to attend this year’s Taipei-Shanghai forum and is expected to meet with Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong (楊雄) tonight. In...
View ArticleMayor criticizes Taipei lawmakers
Legislators in Taipei are “mostly old people” who spend one-third of their time using their influence on behalf of voters, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said on Sunday. Ko made the remarks at a press...
View ArticleWater Park Inferno: Taipei mayor urges integrated disaster response measures
Taipei’s and New Taipei City’s disaster evacuation procedures should be more closely integrated, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday. Both cities’ hospitals were flooded with patients following...
View ArticleTaiwan plane with 58 aboard crashes in Taipei; 23 killed
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people banked sharply onto its side, clipped a highway bridge and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking off from Taipei,...
View ArticleKo ‘weak in the knees’ over MeHAS compensation
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday sparred with the city’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems regarding solutions to a dispute over land the Taipei City Government seized for the construction of...
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