Program to add NT$1.8 billion in funding and benefit 180,000 students

Mayor says improved finances allow for program

Expected to save parents more than NT$10,000 per child annually

Poor rice harvest causes higher prices as Japanese schools cut back on rice

8 other local governments follow example

Elementary school students experience symptoms including nausea, vomiting, cause to be determined

Soup recycled as food waste finds way back into classroom after a week

Students from Pingtung high school stricken with suspected food poisoning

Students from three high schools in Taichung stricken with food poisoning

Lifting of ban scheduled for Jan. 1, 2021