Airports to close for Han KuangBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe airspace around Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) is to be closed for an hour on July 25 and July 23 respectively, due to the Han Kuang military exercises, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday. The annual exercise is to be held on Taiwan proper and its outlying islands from July 22 to 26. A plane takes off from Taipei International Airport with Taipei 101 in the background on May 1. The purpose of implementing such a measure is for the “annual military exercise and training involving the use of helicopters,” with a flight altitude below 1,500 feet, the bulletin states. The tradition of having Special Operations Forces and the Marine Corps play the role of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army or imaginary enemy during the Han Kuang exercise has also been canceled, he said.
