TaiwanPlus News – 18:00, June 21, 2023

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A new poll finds most Australians view a potential war over Taiwan as a major national security concern and would support efforts to help Taiwan if it were attacked by China. As 2,000 new officers graduate from Taiwan's military academy, the country still faces a shortfall in the number of pilots it needs. And a long-running youth center in northern Taiwan with links to the country's authoritarian past is set to close. Also: - A kindergarten in northeastern Yilan County may have given the attention deficit drug Ritalin to children, without medical approval. - Experts from Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia weigh in on Japan's plan to release contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. - On International Yoga Day, Suvam Pal looks at how this traditional Indian practice with thousands of years of history has been taken up all over the world, not least in Taiwan.