A rally held by opposition parties yesterday demonstrates that Taiwan is a democratic country, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday, adding that if opposition parties really want to fight dictatorship, they should fight it on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) held
LIES? Tsai Cheng-yuan said that the former defense vice minister had told him that President William Lai was ‘out to get’ him, Kuo Jeng-liang and Fu Kun-chi
Former Japanese vice minister of defense Yasuhide Nakayama on Friday denied allegations made by a former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker, who said Nakayama had said President William Lai (賴清德) plans to target certain people.“Regarding the statement circulated on social media on April 25, 20
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) has announced donations of advanced medical equipment to Eswatini’s Mbabane Government Hospital which he said would help enhance the African nation’s medical services.The pledged donations, including a computed tomography scan, fundus cameras, and
The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Thursday defended its medical tourism program after the owner of a dental clinic was questioned on suspicion of helping 600 Chinese nationals enter Taiwan illegally.Kuo Wei-chung (郭威中), an official at the ministry’s Department of Medical Affairs, said that irreg
More than 25 percent of China-based Taiwanese businesses are considering terminating their operations in China, with 50 percent looking to increase investments into non-Chinese supply chains, given the US’ tariffs, Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday.
STUDY: Support for physician-assisted dying was higher among young adults, males, those without religious beliefs and people who work as caregivers, a researcher said
A majority of Taiwanese support physician-assisted death in cases involving terminal illness, long-term physical pain or severe cognitive impairment, a study by National Taiwan University’s College of Public Health showed. “While many diseases remain incurable, advances in medical technology have ma
HEALTH WARNING: The infected man visited a restaurant chain’s branch on Roosevelt Road in Taipei and a cafe at MRT Zhongshan station, the Taipei City Government said
The health departments of Taipei and New Taipei City yesterday announced a new case of measles and shared places the person visited during the incubation period. People who visited the venues around the same time should monitor their health for suspected measles symptoms, they said. A 27-year-old ma
An infant daycare center in Kaohsiung has been ordered to cease operations for allegedly mistreating children under its care, the city’s Social Affairs Bureau said on Friday. At least eight children, aged two months to two years old, were found to have been abused from Feb. 10 to 12 at Bei Yujia Inf
Killing companion animals or protected wildlife is punishable by a fine of up to NT$2 million (US$61,489), the Ministry of Agriculture reminded the public on Friday after the alleged sale of dog meat, cat meat and leopard cat meat in Taichung was exposed.Taichung City Councilor Chiang Ho-shu (江和樹) o
A man who allegedly shot two of his neighbor’s pet pigeons with an air gun and planned to eat them in a residential area of Hualien County’s Jian Township (吉安) has been arrested for public endangerment, local authorities said on Wednesday. The Hualien Police Bureau said it had received a report on T
The Guannan Trail in the Jhaomen Recreation Agriculture District in Hsinchu County’s Sinpu Township (新埔) has been repaired using ecological engineering methods. The district is famous for Hakka cuisine, snacks made of indigenous aiyu (愛玉) jelly and the Guannan Trail, a hiking trail around Jiuqiong L
Coast Guard Administration (CGA) eastern branch personnel celebrate the retirement of CGA detection dog Tie Nuo yesterday. The dog concluded its last mission on Thursday last week and officially retired yesterday.
Front row, from right, writer Lu Chien-hsing, Koo Kwang-ming Foundation director Michelle Wang, Control Yuan member Tian Chiu-chin and Legislator Chang Ya-lin, the convening members for the 519 Action Group organizing the Civilian National Congress for Transitional Justice Promotion, hold banners ca
VITAL RURAL BUSES: Chen Shih-kai pledged that the Happiness Bus service would continue to help people access medical services and schools, and bring in tourists
The government aims to have full public transportation service coverage by 2028, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said on Thursday.The ministry set the goal after upgrading the Happiness Bus service, an alternative public transportation service that is available to residents of remo
MAKING AN APPEARANCE: Taiwanese-American author Henry Lien is to appear at the festival today to interact with visitors and share stories about Taiwan
This year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is to showcase 10 English-language versions of Taiwanese books curated by the Ministry of Culture to raise the international profile of Taiwanese literature. The event is taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Southern California in Los A
Business Today on Tuesday launched an initiative in collaboration with academia and government agencies to reverse the loss of seaweed habitats in the seas around Taiwan.Seaweeds in the nation’s waters are experiencing a precipitous decline, especially on the ocean floor around the Penghu islands, w
An autopsy of a 13-year-old boy who died in February amid allegations of school bullying found no signs that he was poisoned, concluding instead that he died from complications related to a viral infection, Tainan prosecutors said on Monday.The Tainan District Prosecutors’ Office in a statement said
Research by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute suggests that the richness of bird species increases with landscape heterogeneity.A research team from the institute analyzed how landscape heterogeneity and total habitat area affect the number of bird species based on
‘BLUE SPY, GREEN SPY’: Taiwan should handle such situations by establishing standards that provide clear expectations of what is acceptable, Peter Mattis said
As cases of Chinese espionage emerge, Taiwan must respond by “depoliticizing” the issue and recognize the fact that anyone could potentially become a spy for China, an analyst told a seminar in Washington on Thursday.There is a need to “recognize that anyone can be a victim. Anyone can make that cho
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