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  • The Consumers Foundation has issued several recommendations for thenewly-opened airport

  • MRT line, including lowering its prices.

  • It says currently commuter and express trains both cost 160 NT end to end,

  • but the Foundation says commuter passengers should get a discount,

  • with a trip costing 100 to 120 NT at most.

  • It also notes that at the Taoyuan Airport terminal 2 station,

  • there is a vertical gap of 7 centimeters between the platform and the train door,

  • which could easily lead to people tripping or getting their luggage caught when boarding.

  • The Consumers Foundation says signage at the Taipei Main Station is still insufficient

  • to direct passengers to get to the new airport line.

  • The CF adds that evacuation and fire safety signage is not up to standard either, saying

  • this especially needs to be rectified.

  • Chiayi health officials are requiring certifications for poultry sold at market.

  • Seven poultry farms have tested positive for bird flu so far this year,

  • resulting in the culls of almost 5500 chicken, ducks, geese, and turkeys.

  • To prevent possibly infected meat from making it to consumers,

  • the city says any poultry being sold must bear certifications showing the source farm

  • has tested negative for bird flu.

  • It is urging farmers to apply for such testing as soon as possible to receive their certifications.

  • Such certifications are good for up to 15 days after the certificate was issued.

  • A suspect has been detained in the W Hotel death case.

  • Taipei police prosecutors have taken Zhu Jia-long into custody over the death of a women in

  • an alleged drug-and-sex party that took place at the hotel.

  • He is being held incommunicado because prosecutors consider him a flight risk.

  • Another suspect is being similarly held.

  • Local officials in the German town of Gaggenau evacuated city hall after receiving a bomb threat.

  • The news comes a day after the town cancelled a campaign speech by Turkey's Justice Minister.

  • Ira Spitzer has more from Berlin.

  • Gaggenau mayor said he couldn't throughout that the bomb threat was connected to the town's,

  • last-minute decision to cancel the speech by turkeys justice minister,

  • town officials said there were concerns about having enough space

  • Turkey's foreign minister sharply denounced the cancellation saying that

  • Germany must learn how to behave if it wanted to maintain relations with its NATO ally.

  • Turkey the arrest of a German Turkish journalist earlier in the week has strained ties between Berlin and Ankara,

  • The justice minister had planned to rally Turkish voters in Germany

  • to support expanded powers for the president which will be voted on in April referendum .

  • A U.S. admiral says America will continue to patrol the South China Sea to ensure freedom

  • of navigation and overflight in the disputed region.

  • Rear Admiral James Kilby says that, ``We have operated here in the past,

  • we're going to operate here in the future, we're going to continue to reassure our allies.''

  • Kilby's comments followed reported Chinese moves to install missile defense systems on

  • islands it recently built, and the inauguration of a new U.S.

  • president who has raised questions about America's role in Asia.

  • China is warning of ``severe damage'' to relations with India if the Dalai Lama proceeds with

  • a visit to a disputed area along their border.

  • A Foreign Ministry spokesman says Beijing has expressed its concerns to New Delhi on

  • numerous occasions and urged India not to offer the exiled Tibetan

  • leader what he called a stage to carry out anti-China separatist activities.

  • The Dalai Lama is set to visit Arunachal Pradesh in coming weeks.

  • China claims the Himalayan state as its own territory

  • and the frontier between the neighbors remains tense more than 50 years after they fought

  • a brief but bloody border war there

  • Greece's deputy prime minister says the country could return to international bond markets

  • in 2017 if the current impasse with bailout lenders

  • is resolved quickly.

  • The deputy PM told a financial conference that Greece could hold a 2017 ``test auction''

  • if negotiations with rescue lenders for the next round of loan payments are concluded

  • ``in the next few weeks.''

  • He made the comments as France's Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Finance Minister Michel

  • Sapin are in Athens for talks.

  • Greek officials were expected to ask for assistance in overcoming sticking points in the bailout

  • talks.

  • According to Central Weather Bureau forecasters, clouds and rain in the northern half of the

  • island this evening, just clouds in the southern half.

  • Overnight lows will be 15 in the north, 15 or 16 in the center,

  • and 16 to 18 in the south.

  • Tomorrow, partly cloudy conditions up north, with clearer skies over the rest of the country.

  • Afternoon highs will peak at 21 to 23 up north, around 25 midisland, and 26 to 28 in southern

  • Taiwan.

  • Right now, it's

  • 18 in Taipei

  • 20 in Taizhong

  • 22 in Gaoxiong

The Consumers Foundation has issued several recommendations for thenewly-opened airport

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