Eswatini’s king yesterday pledged to deepen his country’s “enduring friendship” with Taiwan during a return visit to Taipei after President William Lai’s (賴清德) trip to the southern African nation in May that China tried to block.King Mswati III arrived early yesterday for a state visit until Saturda
THREATS: Democracies face domestic divisions, outside authoritarian influence and technology that make it easy to spread disinformation across borders, the ex-president said
Taiwan offers the global democratic community much more than just semiconductors, former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) told an audience at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in San Francisco on Thursday, while defending her “boring” leadership style as a necessary asset to find common ground.Ts
Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, yesterday won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote internatio
EXPANDED NETWORK: The ATM withdrawal system is to grow to 17 participating financial institutions, which is expected to raise handout coverage to 86.18 percent
The first batch of NT$10,000 (US$314) cash handouts could be deposited on Jan. 26 next year if the Legislative Yuan passes the third reading of the central government budget by Jan. 5 and President William Lai (賴清德) promulgates it by Jan. 20, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.The Executive Yuan
Deeper international cooperation with Taiwan would not only strengthen its security, but also boost stability in the Indo-Pacific region and the resilience of other democracies, former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said on Wednesday.Technology and economic resilience are increasingly tied to national
The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a recommendation on EU-China political relations that rejected China’s efforts to restrict Taiwan’s participation in international organizations and exchanges.The recommendation, addressed to the European Council, the European Commission and EU High Repre
The suspect behind cyberattacks at South Korean banks was likely a China-based 26-year-old who used a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence (AI) agent and Anthropic’s Claude Code, US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike said.In a report published on Wednesday, CrowdStrike said it believed the suspe
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the Swedish Academy said.“She was very taken by surprise,” said Ingrid Carlb
SUSPICIONS: Shen said he had told police he was concerned the incident could be linked to a foreign entity, as he has been frequently targeted by China
Prosecutors yesterday sought an 18-month prison term for a man accused of accepting HK$99,950 (US$12,735) from two people in Hong Kong to surveil Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋) in 2024.Taipei prosecutors sought the sentence for private investigator Cheng Yung-chin (鄭永津
INDEPENDENT PROBE: Hsu said that she had faced ‘unfounded accusations’ and stepped down to allow for objective investigations to uncover the truth
Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) yesterday tendered her resignation amid allegations that she and her family misused public resources during her overseas trips, saying she wanted to allow official investigations to proceed.Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) approved t
The surveillance of President William Lai’s (賴清德) son on US soil is “a chilling reminder that the CCP’s [Chinese Communist Party’s] destabilizing ambitions for the Taiwan Strait are a global threat,” US Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competitio
Israel yesterday marked the third anniversary of Hamas’ attack with silent tributes, new strikes on Gaza and intense political debate, weeks before elections in which the country’s deadliest day would be front and center.At the site of the Nova music festival, where Hamas militants in trucks and par
Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.Many molecules come in versions that look alike but are not exactly iden
Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) tendered her resignation today amid allegations by opposition lawmakers that she and her family misused public resources during her overseas trips, saying she wanted to allow official investigations to proceed.Premier Cho Jung-t
STAYING AHEAD: Taiwan needs more sophisticated mechanisms that emphasize prevention rather than relying on punishments after the crime, a source said
The New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted 10 people for allegedly using forged documents and bogus ties to National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to procure controlled chips for military applications and smuggle them to China and Hong Kong.The suspects were in
INTIMIDATION TACTIC: The group had tried to get another person to attack Yaita with a bottle, but he backed out and fled the country, prosecutors said
Prosecutors yesterday said they had indicted a Hong Kong gang member over the assault of Taiwan-based political commentator Akio Yaita, who was punched in the face in a Taichung hotel lobby in July.Liu Kong-faat (廖港發), described by prosecutors as a ranking member of the Hong Kong-based Wo Shing Wo (
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Monday arrived in San Francisco, receiving a warm welcome from hundreds of overseas Taiwanese as she launched a week-long visit.Accompanied by Representative to the US Alexander Yui (俞大?), and head of Taiwan’s San Francisco office Wu Chih-hsiang (伍志翔), Tsai arr
Light attack aircraft and military vehicles have arrived at a new China-Laos joint training facility announced on Tuesday last week, according to satellite images reviewed by Reuters.The images, taken by commercial satellite provider Vantor, show what security analysts believe are eight K-8 light at
Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen yesterday won the Nobel physics prize for groundbreaking work using South Pole ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos, providing insight into the far reaches of space.“This year’s prize is about ghostly messengers from space,” Royal Swedi
RSS