An official also urges the public to continue traveling to Hualien to help revive business in the city
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/20
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A delegation from the Legislative Yuan visited Hualien in eastern
The Marshal Hotel, one of the collapsed buildings during the Hualien quake (By Central News Agency)
Taiwan on Monday and said the government had allocated a budget of NT$21 million for reconstruction and repair of private buildings damaged by the earthquake that wrecked havoc in the city on February 6.
The magnitude-6.0 quake took place near midnight and claimed 17 lives, including eight foreigners. In addition, 285 people were injured, by the quake, and 493 people were temporarily or permanently displaced.
Chen Mei-ling (陳美伶), convener of a committee set up by the central government for the relief and recovery of the Hualien earthquake, said after visits to collapsed or damaged buildings and bridges that the government had approved a budget of NT$21 million for aiding in rebuilding or repairing private properties damaged during the earthquake.
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