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All the cherry trees in New Taipei City set to blossom

Edit Taipei Times 30 Jan 2016
District offices across the municipality aree holding various activities throughout the ... Department official Chung Chueh-fei (鍾覺非) said that Typhoon Soudelor in August last year severely damaged the cherry trees in Wulai District (烏來), adding that the district’s famous “nighttime visits” to view the cherry blossoms had been cancelled this year....

Live Wire: Folk, feminism and multicultural music: Witch House turns 20

Edit Taipei Times 10 Dec 2015
For the last two decades, it would be no exaggeration to say that Witch House has been the single epicenter of Taipei’s indie folk movements. In supporting this quilt of musical genres, no other venue has even come close ... The festival will be held outdoors in some high mountain grassy lawns near New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來), about 40 minutes south of Taipei, with around 90 acts performing on four stages over three days....

Environmentalists call for river rules

Edit Taipei Times 12 Nov 2015
Taiwan Water Resources Protection Union director Jennifer Nien (粘麗玉) said the draft act should include a national industrial wastewater treatment plan, while water reserve areas should not be deregulated to meet industrial water demands, as landslides in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) caused by Typhoon Soudelor in August were due to failed conservation at an upstream water reserve ... ....

Taiwan Tech Faculty-Student Volunteer Team Fix Appliances In Typhoon-Stricken Wulai (National Taiwan University of Science ...

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2015
Taiwan Tech Faculty-Student Volunteer Team Fix Appliances In Typhoon-Stricken Wulai ... Typhoon Soudelor ripped through Taiwan in early August, devastating and leaving the Wulai District, a mountainous tourist town, cut off from the rest of the island ... This is the first time they undertook their outreach work in Wulai, which borders the Greater Taipei Region....

CIB collars eleven in north for cutting down old trees

Edit Topix 04 Oct 2015
A total of 11 alleged tree poachers were arrested earlier this month in Northern Taiwan over charges of cutting down priceless old trees without permission, the Criminal Investigation Bureau has announced. In a statement, the CIB said it received tips that a number of trees of conservation value had been cut down by poachers in New Taipei's mountainous Wulai District and Sanxia District ... ....

Typhoon gives Taiwan a gigantic battering

Edit The Guardian 30 Sep 2015
Taiwan faces a big clear-up after Typhoon Dujuan, which killed at least two people, injured more than 300, displaced thousands and left nearly half a million without power ... The heaviest rain was in north-east Taiwan in the mountainous Wulai district where more than 90cm (35in) fell – nearly a third of the country’s annual rainfall ... ....

Typhoon Dujuan rips through nation

Edit Taipei Times 28 Sep 2015
New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) said the vulnerable areas include Wulai District (烏來), which was hit hard by Typhoon Soudelor last month, with some residents unable to return home for weeks ... Any damage might further prolong the time needed for reconstruction,” said Chou Chih-kang, an Wulai neighborhood leader....

Water supply disrupted in Taipei

Edit Taipei Times 28 Sep 2015
The first phase of the water outage in districts of Taipei, which began at 7pm, affected 3,700 households in mountainous areas in ... The amount of rainfall at the Nanshih River (南勢溪) in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來), which is located upstream of the Zhitan plant, reached 170mm within three hours, causing water turbidity to soar, Chen said....

Illegal logging crew arrested near New Taipei City: police

Edit Taipei Times 24 Sep 2015
Police yesterday said that earlier this week they arrested a logging crew that was illegally cutting precious wood species such as stout camphors, incense cedars, redwoods and beeches in mountainous areas of national forests near Wulai District (烏來) in New Taipei City....

Aboriginal activists pan May Chin

Edit Taipei Times 04 Sep 2015
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin’s (高金素梅) attendance of a military parade in Beijing was panned by Aboriginal representatives yesterday ... “We paid a heavy price, because we belonged to the Japanese side,” she said ... He criticized Chin for allegedly advocating for the demolition of a memorial to the volunteers in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) ... ....

Intake might solve Taipei water issue

Edit Taipei Times 29 Aug 2015
The Water Resources Agency is considering a subsurface water intake system at the Nanshih River (南勢溪) in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) in response to the high turbidity of river water caused by torrential rain amid concerns over water resources utilization and conservation in the area....

Taiwan-built UAV grabs attention

Edit Taipei Times 16 Aug 2015
Geosat showcased its six-rotored UAV, that provided images and geographical information about New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來), a mountainous area that sustained heavy damage from Typhoon Soudelor on Aug ... With landslides cutting off the only road into the district, the government enlisted Geosat to provide high-definition photographs and ......

Forestry Bureau denies it is at fault over turbidity

Edit Taipei Times 13 Aug 2015
The Forestry Bureau disputed a claim yesterday that inadequate conservation of a 1981 landslide site upstream of the Nanshih River (南勢溪) in New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) caused murky tap water during Typhoon Soudelor ... A total of 56.89 hectares of land in Wulai collapsed after the typhoon ... That resulted in the highly turbid tap water seen in Taipei and New Taipei City and the damages done to Wulai during the typhoon,” Lin said....
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