Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amend
An architecture exhibition organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts opened yesterday in Venice as an associate event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia.At the exhibition's opening ceremony, curator Hsueh Cheng-luen (薛丞倫) said "NON-Belief: Taiwan In
Cabinet Secretary-General Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) is to lead a Taiwanese delegation to the US tomorrow to attend the 2025 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Maryland from Sunday to Wednesday, the Executive Yuan said in a statement yesterday.The mission aims to deepen industrial and technological cooperatio
A Taiwan delegation would depart for the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday evening next week, Minister of Health and Welfare Chiu Tai-yuan (邱泰源) said today. The WHA’s 78th annual assembly is to be held from May 19 to May 27.Taiwan has not received an official invitation, a
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) would work with local governments to resist attempts by China to integrate them, MAC Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said today in an exclusive interview with the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times' sister newspaper). To establish deeper ties with local governments and
Taiwan’s outgoing ambassador to the Vatican Matthew Lee (李世明) said that the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV understands the difference between “democratic Taiwan and communist China,” expressing confidence in the continued development of Taiwan-Vatican relations. Leo, whose real name is Robert Prevost,
The Taiwan Keelung District Court yesterday night ordered that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Keelung branch chairman Wu Kuo-sheng (吳國勝) be detained and held incommunicado, while two staffers were released on bail this morning after questioning.After questioning Wu, the court determined he was stro
Former Dingyue Development Corp (鼎越開發) president Chu Yea-hu (朱亞虎) admitted yesterday to bribing former Taiwan People's Party (TPP) leader Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) in connection with a real estate development project during Ko's tenure as Taipei mayor 2014-2022.Testifying as a witness before the Taipei Distri
HASTY EXTENSION: A draft amendment would require Taipower to submit three safety reports in one week, which is too short for a thorough review, NGOs said
Environmental groups yesterday called on opposition lawmakers not to extend the use of the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant by passing an amendment to Article 6 of the Nuclear Reactor Facilities Regulation Act (核子反應器設施管制法).Green Citizens’ Action Alliance secretary-general Tsuei Su-hsin (崔愫欣) told a new
PRICE CHANGES: A stronger NT dollar would make Taiwanese more willing to travel abroad, but also dissuade foreign visitors to Taiwan due to higher costs
The government would closely monitor if the New Taiwan dollar’s appreciation against the US dollar would affect international tourists’ interest in visiting Taiwan, Minister of Transportation and Communications Chen Shih-kai (陳世凱) said yesterday.A stronger NT dollar would help lower travel expenses,
Taiwan Railway Corp yesterday said that it helped retrieve NT$4 million (US$132,000) that a Vietnamese passenger left on a train on Wednesday, the largest amount that the railway company has so far encountered. The incident occurred on commuter train No. 3258, which operates in the section between E
Greenpeace yesterday blasted the Taipei High Administrative Court’s ruling against its lawsuit challenging the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ “loose” regulations governing major corporate electricity users.The ministry in 2021 promulgated the Regulations for the Management of Setting up Renewable Ene
The Ministry of Labor has paused its plan to revise regulations that would have allowed foreign students who graduated from Taiwanese universities to work in six types of intermediate-skilled jobs.The ministry in March introduced the plan to tackle Taiwan’s increasing labor shortage. The National De
INAPPROPRIATE: The Israeli office said that the KMT chairman’s comments were extremely offensive and unacceptable to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust
The German Institute Taipei yesterday expressed its “deep disappointment and concern” after Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) compared the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to Nazi Germany.At a meeting of the KMT’s Central Standing Committee on Wednesday, Chu drew parallels be
Three prominent Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers representing Taipei districts and two representing districts in New Taipei City are facing recalls, after campaigners yesterday turned in the second round of petitions to the Central Election Commission (CEC).KMT legislators Wang Hung-wei (王鴻
UPHOLDING EQUITY: Alimony is compensation to women for the career sacrifices they make for marriage, not a mechanism for poverty relief, the lawmaker said
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) and civic groups yesterday called on the government to reform the alimony laws in the Civil Code to protect women after divorce.Taiwanese district courts awarded alimony to only 21 women from 2009 to 2018, or 22 percent of all female litigan
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a four-year plan to spend NT$8.8 billion (US$290.4 million) to bolster the nation’s cybersecurity resilience.The Seventh National Cybersecurity Development Program is to focus on key areas such as developing cybersecurity talent within government agencies and ra
The government on Wednesday raised its travel warning for the India-Pakistan border to the highest level, advising Taiwanese to leave the area as soon as possible in light of an escalating conflict between the two nations.The “red” travel alert was issued one year after the Bureau of Consular Affair
Siraya leaders and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday called on the government to remove all barriers and opposition to the group’s fight to restore their indigenous status.After many decades of struggle for historic justice and recognition as a distinct ethnic group, it is time
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