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Laptop sales surge, education department website crashes after nationwide school closure announced

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Schools across Taiwan will be closed from tomorrow May 19 until May 28, the Ministry of Education announced today, leading to the MOE website crashing as concerned parents and students flooded onto the site seeking more information.

The MOE made the decision a day after schools in Taipei City and New Taipei City announced city-wide school closures from today, May 18.

Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung announced that all schools, including public and private kindergartens, elementary, junior and senior high schools, and after school childcare and cram schools across the country will be closed from tomorrow. College, high school, and elementary classes will be conducted online, the minister said, with no make-up classes required during the summer vacation.

As soon as the announcement was made, people rushed to get more information from the MOE website, overloading the server. At 2:00 pm Taiwan English News confirmed that the website was still not available .

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Laptop Sales Surge

Taiwan computer manufacturers Asustek (TWSE: 2357) and Acer (TWSE: 2353) reported a surge in online sales of laptop computers, today with ASUS sales 8 times higher than normal, and Acer sales volume doubled in response to the school closures and switch to online learning.

Many companies have already switched to work from home for at least some employees, also contributing to sales boom.

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2 thoughts on “Laptop sales surge, education department website crashes after nationwide school closure announced”

  • John Huston
    May 18, 2021 at 6:26 pm
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    Taiwan’s “mini meanie,” health czar Chen Shih-chung, has been largely co-opted by the globalists and is now jabbing and prodding the people of this nation down the path of perdition. This man has arrogated unto himself far too much power, just like the faux “genius” Fauci has done in America. It has to be stopped.

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