LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY: The premier said that disaster relief budgets from the usual sources were not sufficient, as the situation in the nation’s south is getting worse
The Executive Yuan yesterday advanced a bill that would allow the government to allocate up to NT$56 billion (US$1.88 billion) for recovery work in southern Taiwan following Typhoon Danas and flooding over the past few weeks.The special spending plan would support areas affected by recent inclement
A Taiwanese woman in her 40s has been confirmed as the first person this year to have contracted chikungunya fever in China and tested positive in Taiwan, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in a statement yesterday.The woman visited friends in Guangdong Province’s Foshan and Shenzhen in the
A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump has been agreed, a Kremlin official said yesterday, the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the three-year-old war in Ukraine.Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said that
A Sudanese airstrike hit an airport in the country’s Darfur region controlled by a paramilitary group, destroying a suspected Emirati military aircraft and killing dozens of suspected mercenaries, Sudanese officials and a rebel adviser said yesterday.Wednesday’s strike on Nyala airport killed at lea
‘A JOKE’: Legislator Wang Ting-yu said that a ban on lobbying by Chinese needs to change, because no penalties were authorized for contraventions of the statute
Amendments to close loopholes in the Lobbying Act (遊說法) are required to bolster laws against foreign-funded lobbying, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday, following reports that a Chinese electric vehicle firm allegedly made a bid to influence lawmakers.The Chinese-language Mirror
PEACE BELL RINGS: Taiwanese resonate with the atomic bombing by the US in 1945, as many were in Japan at the time, Representative to Japan Lee Yi-yang said
A delegation led by Representative to Japan Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋) yesterday attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, marking the first time an official Taiwanese delegation has participated in the annual ceremony.Lee, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Osaka Director-General Hu
Hiroshima yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders for nuclear weapons as a deterrence.With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now e
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) could invest US$300 billion in Arizona, which would be nearly double the total investment TSMC has announced to date in the US.“We have the biggest [chipmaker] in the world [TSMC] from Taiwan is coming o
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow yesterday, the Kremlin said, days before the White House’s deadline for Russia to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or potentially face severe economic penalties that could also hit count
CHINA’s BULLYING: The former British prime minister said that he believes ‘Taiwan can and will’ protect its freedom and democracy, as its people are lovers of liberty
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday said Western nations should have the courage to stand with and deepen their economic partnerships with Taiwan in the face of China’s intensified pressure.He made the remarks at the ninth Ketagalan Forum: 2025 Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue hosted
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
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