An increasing number of Chinese warplanes and ships operating close to Taiwan in the last year and a half is prompting the country to invest more in its own indigenous weapons development programs, especially missile defenses. The government is drafting a childcare law both to make childcare more accessible and in response to sometimes-fatal incidents of abuse and neglect in the country's nurseries. And Taiwan's attempts to reform its railway system have hit a roadblock with objections to its process of corporatization. Also:
- Taiwan has seen a drop in real wages for the first time in seven years as inflation outstrips pay increases.
- Fishery workers in Taiwan are worried as Japan prepares to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific.
- Elementary school students on Taiwan's Green Island hold an underwater graduation ceremony in what's become an annual tradition.
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