US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell “underscored the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, in the South China Sea and on the Korean Peninsula,” during a call with Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu (馬朝旭) on Tuesday, US Department of State spok
OLD FRIEND: The ‘Taiwan is not a country’ comment was likely made to appease Beijing and get the former president a meeting with Xi Jinping, a lawmaker said
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday denounced a comment by a top aide of former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), saying that his statement “Taiwan is not a country” denigrates the nation’s sovereignty. “Taiwan is not a part of China, and neither side is subordinate to the other. Most
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Attorney General Grenville Williams on Wednesday lauded Taiwan’s efforts to co-organize an international workshop on tackling transnational fraud in Taipei. Williams was in Taiwan for the Global Cooperation and Training Framework’s International Workshop on Combating
Taiwan is to launch a new phase of the regional revitalization plan next year, which aims to form links between local towns and the world, vice president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) said at the opening of a two-day Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) forum in Taipei yesterday.The proposed plan is a co
Selected works by late Taiwanese director Edward Yang (楊德昌) will be screened at the Harvard Film Archive in the United States from March 29 to May 5 as part of an event jointly curated by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and Harvard University."Chronicles of Changing Times. The Cinema of Edward Yang" wi
DEVIL’S LETTUCE: The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said on Wednesday that busts for cannabis have escalated in the past decade — from 403 cases in 2014 to 1,477 last year
Taiwan is experiencing a surge in cannabis smuggling, cultivation and use, Ministry of Justice officials said on Wednesday, warning the public against its use and sale, while reiterating its opposition to calls for decriminalization.Presenting seized cannabis products for reporters at a ministry bri
A recent study by Academia Sinica created a novel method for calculating elevation-dependent climate change-induced temperature shifts, allowing scientists to predict environmental impacts with greater precision.The research was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday with open public access.Th
It could take one to two months to finalize the carbon fee rate, as a review committee has not yet decided on the rate, but a plan to collect the fees from next year remains unchanged, Minister of Environment Shieu Fuh-sheng (薛富盛) said on Wednesday.The Ministry of Environment was previously schedule
The first brain donated by a patient who died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was delivered to the Taiwan Brain Bank recently, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital said on Tuesday. The donor, Huang Ting-cheng (黃鼎承), was a 50-year-old man diagnosed three years ago with the fatal motor neuron disease, w
TRADERCEP group inauguratedA nonpartisan group of lawmakers yesterday inaugurated a parliamentary amity association for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁) to serve as chair. The RCEP is a 15-member free-trade agre
Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che, left, poses with American artist Kurt Perschke and his traveling “RedBall Project” art installation at the Eternal Golden Fort in the city’s Anping District yesterday. The artwork is to be displayed at 10 locations across the city from today to April 7.
Civic groups yesterday rally outside the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Kaohsiung headquarters to protest its proposed amendment that would allow nuclear power facilities to apply for a service extension at any time, removing the current deadline.
Children pose with mascots from the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Pingtung County yesterday. Any child between the ages of six and 12 who dress up as a sea creature and visit the museum’s marine education carnival during the extended Tomb Sweeping Day holiday may receive free ent
JUST A NAME? The party’s chairman said the visit would hopefully help stabilize cross-strait relations, and China’s TAO said it hoped ‘Mr Ma’s’ trip would be productive
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) applauded former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) planned visit to China from Monday next week to April 11, and would be glad if Ma happens to meet with “old friend” Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), KMT Vice Chairman Andrew Hsia (夏立言) told a meeting of the KMT’s
NOT GIVING UP: Eighteen Taiwanese are still in Haiti, and the embassy would continue to maintain operations there, despite unrest and violence in the country, MOFA said
Five Taiwanese nationals have arrived in the Dominican Republic after being airlifted out of Haiti amid escalating unrest in the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.The five Taiwanese left Haiti, one of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies, at 8am on Tuesday with the help of “like-minded
The military remains on alert following comments made online that China was simulating a military strategy aimed at removing Taiwan’s leadership, Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) said yesterday.Military enthusiast Joseph Wen (溫約瑟) yesterday wrote online that a bombing range in Alxa
Private banks from next month could apply to acquire their own short message service (SMS) codes amid an increase in fraudulent messages sent by people pretending to be from financial institutions, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday. The commission recently met with Taiwan’s
POOR PREPARATION: Cultures can form on food that is out of refrigeration for too long and cooking does not reliably neutralize their toxins, an epidemiologist said
Medical professionals yesterday said that suspected food poisoning deaths revolving around a restaurant at Far Eastern Department Store Xinyi A13 Store in Taipei could have been caused by one of several types of bacterium.Ho Mei-shang (何美鄉), an epidemiologist at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Biomed
‘CHALLENGING’: The organization said that its decision was primarily a result of a shortage of social workers and difficulties in recruiting families to foster children
World Vision Taiwan on Tuesday said that it would cease providing foster care services on behalf of local governments after 33 years.World Vision Taiwan’s decision to pull out of the sector comes amid scrutiny over the death of a one-year-old boy in December last year.The boy was placed by the Child
Taiwanese visited public libraries more than 100 million times last year, an increase of 22.06 million from 2022, the National Central Library said in a report yesterday.National Central Library Director-General Wang Han-ching (王涵青) at a news conference in Taipei presented the findings of the Annual