NORTHERN STRIKE: Taiwanese military personnel have been training ‘in strategic and tactical battle operations’ in Michigan, a former US diplomat said
More than 500 Taiwanese troops participated in this year’s Northern Strike military exercise held at Lake Michigan by the US, a Pentagon-run news outlet reported yesterday.The Michigan National Guard-sponsored drill involved 7,500 military personnel from 36 nations and territories around the world,
Taiwan is expected to report record excess savings of almost NT$4.8 trillion (US$159 billion) this year, thanks to a rapidly expanding current account surplus amid strong global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) dat
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Ukraine’s allies were meeting yesterday to discuss the outcome of fast-moving talks to end the war with Russia, after indications that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy could sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a peace summit.Hopes of a breakthrough arose when Zelenskiy and Euro
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top aide and China’s chief diplomat yesterday hailed their nations’ warming ties, in another signal both sides are recalibrating their foreign policy amid mounting tariff pressure from US President Donald Trump.“I am very happy that in the past nine months there
CLAMPING DOWN: At the preliminary stage on Jan. 1 next year, only core personnel of the military, the civil service and public schools would be subject to inspections
Regular checks are to be conducted from next year to clamp down on military personnel, civil servants and public-school teachers with Chinese citizenship or Chinese household registration, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.Article 9-1 of the Act Governing Relations Between the People
MASSIVE FRAUD: More than 72 percent of the signatures in the first recall petition targeting DPP Legislator Tsai Chi-chang were found to be forged
All 34 defendants indicted by Taichung prosecutors for allegedly forging up to 72.88 percent of signatures in two recall petitions against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators pleaded guilty at the first court hearing yesterday.Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taichung chapter secretary-gen
In his National Day Rally speech on Sunday, Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財) quoted the Taiwanese song One Small Umbrella (一支小雨傘) to describe his nation’s situation.Wong’s use of such a song shows Singapore’s familiarity with Taiwan’s culture and is a perfect reflection of exchanges be
Hong Kong prosecutors yesterday began closing arguments in the trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (黎智英), arguing that he had shown “unwavering intent” to ask for foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China.The 77-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper has pleaded no
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ahead of talks with US President Donald Trump yesterday said that Russia should not be “rewarded” for its invasion, after the US leader pressed Ukraine to make concessions in exchange for peace.The talks, in which European leaders are also to take part, follow
FLEXIBLE FORCE: Only about 10 percent of small drones reach their target, an expert said, which is why it is important to make it easier to procure large numbers of drones
The military is planning to recategorize military drones as “consumables/munitions,” rather than as aircraft, to speed up the procurement process, the army said yesterday.The Army Command Headquarters said the decision was made because drones, like munitions, need to be rapidly replaced, and thus sh
GROWTH: The DGBAS projected that GDP would rise a further 4.45 percent this year, while GDP per capita is expected to surpass US$40,000 for the first time in 2026
The average disposable income per household last year reached NT$1.165 million (US$38,820), setting a new record high and increasing 2.5 percent year-on-year, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics’ (DGBAS) latest “Family Income and Expenditure” report showed on Friday.The medi
Team Taiwan won two more gold medals on the final day of the World Games in Chengdu, China, yesterday, their best-ever performance at a World Games event outside Taiwan.Taiwan sent 119 athletes to participate in 14 categories of the World Games this year.The women’s tug-of-war team claimed their six
European leaders are to join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during his visit to Washington today seeking an end to Moscow’s invasion, after US President Donald Trump dropped his push for a ceasefire following an Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Securing a ceasefire in Ukr
At least nine people died in a flash flood in northern China, state media reported yesterday, with three others still missing, as the East Asian monsoon continues to unleash atmospheric chaos across the world’s second-largest economy.The banks of a river running through the grasslands of the Inner M
SOURCES: The Cabinet is proposing to allocate NT$500 billion to the Ministry of National Defense next year, while other ministries are required to maintain zero budget growth
The Executive Yuan’s defense budget plan for fiscal 2026 would reach 3 percent of GDP, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.The Cabinet has prepared a proposal allocating about NT$800 billion (US$26.66 billion) for defense, which would exceed the 3 percent target once defense-related spec
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office. Trump made the remarks in an interview with Fox News, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.“I will tell
‘NOT SUBORDINATE’: Lin Chia-lung rejected Wang Yi’s claim that Japan returned Taiwan to China after World War II, citing the Treaty of San Francisco and democracy
The Republic of China (ROC) is Taiwan’s sole legal government, and the “status quo” is that the ROC and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) exist equally as separate entities that are not subordinate to each other, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said, rebutting Chinese Minister of
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is to meet with US President Donald Trump tomorrow as he and European allies push for a trilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite signs the Russian leader is not open to concessions to end the war in Ukraine. “Ukraine reaffirms its readi
More than 300 people are dead in northwest Pakistan after two days of intense rains and floods, local officials said yesterday.Rescue efforts and clearing of blocked roads were ongoing with the release of emergency funds, they said, adding that the heavy rains would continue until Thursday.Cloud bur
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