Authorities have detained three former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TMSC, 台積電) employees on suspicion of compromising classified technology used in making 2-nanometer chips, the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office said yesterday.Prosecutors are holding a former TSMC engineer surnamed Chen (陳)
LOBBYING: The event was allegedly an attempt by BYD to persuade politicians to relax regulations so that its cars would be allowed to enter the local market
The alleged attendance of Legislative Yuan General Affairs Department Director Liao Chiung-chih (廖炯志) at a dinner hosted by executives of Taikoo Motors Ltd (太古汽車), which is seeking to import Chinese firm BYD Co’s (比亞迪) new Denza electric vehicles made in Thailand, on July 28 might have violated the
A Chinese citizen on Monday was charged under Australia’s foreign interference laws with covertly collecting information about an Australian Buddhist association, police said.The woman, an Australian permanent resident based in the capital, Canberra, is only the third person charged since the laws w
The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into claims that national security officials participated in a conspiracy in late 2016 and early 2017 to link US President Donald Trump to Russia’s election interference and undermine his legitimacy, a person familiar with the matter s
BODY ARMOR: The new boron carbide bullet-resistant ceramic plates are capable of protecting against up to 7.62mm armor-piercing ammunition or shrapnel
The military plans to purchase 48,000 new boron carbide bullet-resistant ceramic plates, the Ministry of National Defense’s latest list of regulated military material showed.Mass production of the plates is scheduled for between 2028 and 2029, according to the document that was released last week.Th
US senators on Friday last week proposed a bill — the US-Taiwan partnership in the Americas act — supporting Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in Latin America and the Caribbean to counter China’s pressure on them to sever ties with Taiwan.The bill was introduced by US senators Jeff Merkley and Tim Kaine o
LARGEST SALE EVER: Alaska’s location is strategically advantageous due to the relatively short shipping route to Taiwan, and it would diversify LNG sources, CPC said
Taiwan and Alaska are close to finalizing a deal for Taiwan to purchase 5.44 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which would mark the largest such sale in Alaska’s history, the state’s governor said.“It’s moving to an absolute solid offtake with Taiwan of 6 million tons of gas... Now that
India and the Philippines have staged joint naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea for the first time, a high-profile military deployment that antagonized China.Beijing has separate territorial disputes with the two Asian democracies and a long-running regional rivalry with New Delhi.Armed
South Korea yesterday said that it was removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports to North Korea, as the new administration in Seoul tries to ease tensions with its bellicose neighbor.The nations, still technically at war, had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilitari
SECURITY FLAWS: One ministry failed to compile critical infrastructure lists, leaving providers to assess themselves, while another lacked coordination and a security plan
The National Audit Office in its latest report on the central government’s fiscal accounts for last year called out four ministries for failing to adequately safeguard critical infrastructure.The Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Transportation and Com
FLOOD RECOVERY: “Post-Typhoon Danas reconstruction special act” is expected to be approved on Thursday, the premier said, adding the flood control in affected areas would be prioritized
About 200cm of rainfall fell in parts of southern Taiwan from Monday last week to 9am yesterday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.Kaohsiung’s Taoyuan District (桃源) saw total rainfall of 2,205mm, while Pingtung County’s Sandimen Township (三地門) had 2,060.5mm and Tainan’s Nanhua District (
The French National Assembly’s Taiwan Friendship Group on Friday issued a statement rejecting claims made in a report on Europe-China relations by French Legislator Sophia Chikirou of the La France Insoumise (LFI) party as replicating Beijing’s lies and distorting a UN resolution.French newspaper Le
The Russian and Chinese navies are carrying out artillery and anti-submarine drills in the Sea of Japan as part of scheduled joint exercises, the Russian Pacific Fleet was quoted as saying yesterday.The drills are taking place two days after US President Donald Trump said he had ordered two nuclear
Tsunami waves were possible in three areas of Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Services said yesterday after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the nearby Kuril Islands.“The expected wave heights are low, but you must still move away from the shore,” the ministry said o
NEW GEAR: On top of the new Tien Kung IV air defense missiles, the military is expected to place orders for a new combat vehicle next year for delivery in 2028
Mass production of Tien Kung IV (Sky Bow IV) missiles is expected to start next year, with plans to order 122 pods, the Ministry of National Defense’s (MND) latest list of regulated military material showed.The document said that the armed forces would obtain 46 pods of the air defense missiles next
HANDOUTS: The Cabinet believes that the legislature’s version of the cash handout is not constitutional, although its own version would retain the provision
The Executive Yuan would propose a special budget of NT$545 billion (US$18.15 billion) that includes a nationwide cash handout of NT$10,000, sources said yesterday, adding that a clause would be included to exclude wealthy households from receiving the cash handout.The legislature on July 11 passed
A bipartisan group of US representatives have introduced a draft US-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership bill, aimed at accelerating defense technology collaboration between Taiwan and the US in response to ongoing aggression by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The bill was introduced by US repres
In a warning to Russia, US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ordering the repositioning of two US nuclear submarines “based on the highly provocative statements” of former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who has raised the prospect of war online.Trump wrote on social media that, based
The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away.Over the course of the week, Gaza passed two appalling milestones. The official Pale
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