TaiwanPlus News – 18:00, February 29, 2024

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As Taiwan commemorates the 228 Incident of 1947, the country still grapples to come to terms with its authoritarian past and the legacy of former leader Chiang Kai-shek. Around 600 people are being monitored for having come into contact with a measles cluster infection at a hospital in northern Taiwan. And Joyce Tseng speaks to the mayor of Kikuyo, the small town in Japan where TSMC has opened its first joint venture plant in the country, about how the chip giant's arrival is transforming the local community. Also: - A Taiwanese man has been arrested at an airport in Japan for smuggling drugs while dressed as a monk. - Taiwan hopes to take a giant leap in its space program by launching the country's first lunar probe by the end of the year. - Schoolchildren in New Taipei have gone into the hills to clear up waste from the thousands of paper-and-metal sky lanterns that are released at this time of year in the town of Pingxi.