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Smell of burning causes evacuation of Taipei MRT train

Around 250 passengers aboard a northbound train on Taipei’s Wenshan-Neihu MRT line were evacuated yesterday after staff at Nanjing East Road station detected a burning odor coming from cars.

The incident occurred at 8:29am when the train was at Nanjing East Road station.

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Central bank wants investment curbs

The central bank is pushing for curbs to be imposed on the amount of Chinese capital that can be placed in local stocks, hoping to stem the inflow of speculative funds, an official said yesterday.

The Financial Supervisory Commission, which has the authority to set limits on Chinese funds, has been approached by central bank officials eager to keep controls tight, said Lu Ting-chieh (盧廷劼), the commission’s chief secretary.

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Newsflash

Yunlin County Commissioner Su Chih-feng (蘇治芬) and a group of Mailiao Township (麥寮) residents yesterday appealed to Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and the government to listen to their complaints about pollution from a naphtha cracker in their town.

Braving the scorching sun, the protesters knelt in front of the Executive Yuan during their protest. They also threw dead fish and clams that had been found days after a fire broke out in a residual desulphurizer at Formosa Petrochemical Corp’s petrochemical complex on Sunday night.