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Australia approves TiSPACE rocket test flight

Wednesday, 25 August 2021 05:11 Taipei Times

Taiwan Innovative Space attempts to launch its Hapith-I rocket in Taitung County on Feb. 13 last year. The mission was canceled due to strong winds.
Photo: CNA

The Australian government on Monday said that it had approved an application from Taiwan Innovative Space (TiSPACE) to launch its Hapith I sounding rocket, while the National Space Organization (NSPO) again postponed its launch service contract with the company.

NT$200bn missile budget planned

Sunday, 22 August 2021 05:50 Taipei Times

Hsiung Feng III, front right, and Hsiung Feng II missiles developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology are displayed at a defense industry exhibition in Kaohsiung on Sept. 27, 2018.
Photo: Hung Chen-hung, Taipei Times

The Ministry of National Defense is proposing a special budget totaling NT$200 billion (US$7.14 billion) to boost the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology’s missile manufacturing capabilities, a source said.

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Union of Education in Taiwan chairperson Cheng Cheng-iok holds a high-school Chinese textbook while speaking at a meeting in Taipei on Feb. 21.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Despite having cancer, 68-year-old Union of Education in Taiwan chairperson Cheng Cheng-iok (鄭正煜) said he would continue urging the Ministry of Education to keep mandatory local language courses for the upcoming junior-high school year.

Born in 1946 in Cieding (茄萣) in what is now Greater Kaohsiung, Cheng became a junior-high school teacher after graduating from Chinese Culture University’s history department.