Tourists play on a beach in the Kenting park in Hengchun town of Pingtung county, Taiwan.[Photo/Xinhua] TAIPEI - Taiwan's meteorological authority said Wednesday the average temperature between December 2018 and February this year was 20.5 degrees Celsius, indicating the warmest winter since records began in 1947. The winter's average temperature was 2.2 degrees Celsius higher than the historical average, the authority said in a statement. About 90 percent of the island's weather stations reported the highest temperature on record during the period, it added. The warmer weather is forecast to continue and less rainfall is expected until May, but rising sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean triggered by El Nino will be weakened, it said. The rainfall is expected to reach a normal level in May when the island will enter the rainy season, but uncertainties remain, it added. The water level in many reservoirs started to drop due to limited rainfall this past winter and meteorological authorities called on the public to save water. Taiwan's crop production has been hit by the mild winter, with tea-planting areas in central and southern parts of the island also affected. printed-wristbandwristbands for eventsembossed-wristband
BEIJING - Foreign Minister Wang Yi Thursday called mutual trust an issue that needs to be addressed urgently between China and India.With political trust, not even the Himalayas can stop us from friendly exchanges. Without it, not even level land can bring us together, Wang told a press conference on the sidelines of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.When China and India, the two largest developing countries in the world, each with a population of more than 1 billion, become modernized,the two countries must do everything to empathize with and support each other, he said.Chinese and Indian leaders have developed a strategic vision for the future bilateral ties, which is the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant must not fight but dance with each other, he said.Stressing that shared understanding between the two countries far outstrips difference and common interests far outweigh frictions, Wang said China is willing and ready to carry on traditional friendship.He said he hopes the two sides will replace suspicion with trust, manage differences through dialogue and build a future through cooperation.
