LUNAR NEW YEAR: Extra precautions would be taken to prevent transmission of the flu, which could be exacerbated by holiday travel, the Centers for Disease Control said
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has announced new measures to ease emergency room overcrowding during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday after Taiwan faced a serious overcrowding strain last year that was called “unprecedented.”Emergency room visits during the Lunar New Year holiday typic
This year’s edition of the Taipei Lantern Festival is to showcase robots from the toy and media franchise Transformers in the city’s first-ever attempt to have a double-featured theme for the event.The festival this year, which is to cost the city NT$60 million (US$1.9 million), has reached a deal w
The Taipei International Comics and Animation Festival this year has banned realistic replica guns, gas masks and other face coverings following the Taipei MRT mass stabbing last month, official guidelines showed.This year’s festival is slated to take place from Feb. 5 to Feb. 9 at the Taipei Nangan
Prosecutors on Thursday said that a Taiwanese woman would not be indicted over the death of her British husband due to insufficient evidence of foul play, but they are seeking a sentence of no less than eight years in a separate case for the attempted rat poison murder of an Australian student.The w
‘WEAPONIZATION’: Japan realized the coercive power of economic dependence when China in 2010 used rare earths as leverage for territorial claims, an academic said
Economic security is the ability to counter foreign coercion via economic means, an academic said yesterday, calling for cooperation among like-minded countries within the Asian region to achieve a geo-economic power balance.The “Asia Visions and Voices: Geopolitical Implications of Trump 2.0” inter
‘LEVELING THE FIELD’: The tariff would be dropped to 15 percent, down from the previous 20 percent, matching rates imposed on Japan, South Korea and the EU
An agreement reached on Thursday between Taiwan and the US to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods would benefit local non-tech industries by “leveling the playing field” with major trade competitors, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday.“Japan and South Korea had free trade agreements or quasi-fr
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday demanded that the government submit signed agreements with the US from its tariff negotiations to the legislature for review.Taiwan and the US earlier yesterday announced an agreement to a long-sought trade pact that would lower tariffs on goods from Tai
Opposition lawmakers yesterday fast-tracked a motion to the second reading that would authorize the disbursement of the central government’s NT$71.8 billion (US$2.2 billion) budget for 38 projects, including subsidies to address the low birthrate and funding for the TPass program.During a plenary se
The legislature has passed amendments that abolish provisions allowing Public Television Service (PTS) board members to remain in office after their terms expire.The amendments cleared the Legislative Yuan yesterday in a 59-49 vote, with lawmakers from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Tai
The first meeting of the Legislative Yuan Free and Open Indo-Pacific Promotion Association was held yesterday in a bid to boost exchanges between Taiwan and like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific region.Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chiu Chih-wei (邱志偉), who initiated the association, sa
The absence of any major escalation in Taiwan-US military cooperation this year should not necessarily be viewed as a negative, as it could indicate that the regional security environment has stabilized, a former Pentagon official said on Thursday.At a seminar in Taipei, former US Air Force lieutena
A rice paddy in Taitung County’s Guanshan Township featuring an image of the sea goddess Matsu created from six rice varieties is pictured yesterday. The Guanshan Township Farmers’ Association encouraged the public to visit this year’s painted rice field artwork during the upcoming Lunar New Year ho
Japanese photographer and director Mika Ninagawa poses for photographs at a news conference in Taipei yesterday ahead of today’s opening of the photography exhibition “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Lights of the beyond, Shadows of This World” at Huashan Creative Park.
Guatemalan Ambassador to Taiwan Luis Raul Estevez Lopez, second left, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung, third left, Belizean Ambassador to Taiwan Katherine Vanessa Meighan, third right, and other officials gesture at an event in Taipei yesterday featuring food trucks serving Central Ame
The Legislative Yuan today passed an amendment that would allow public redevelopment or relocation of all military dependents’ villages, regardless of age.The current definition of “old military dependents’ villages” under Article 3 of the Act for Rebuilding Old Quarters for Military Dependents (國軍老
Ultraman, the Japanese superhero who is celebrating his 60th anniversary this year, is to be the mascot for this year’s Kaohsiung Wonderland winter festival, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) announced today. The festival is to be held from Feb. 7 to March 1 at Love River Bay and piers No. 16 throu
A late-night fire in a densely populated residential area of Taichung left one person dead and 12 homes damaged last night, authorities said today.The deceased, a woman in her 50s surnamed Yang (楊), was found in a stairwell between the first and second floors of one building trapped under a "heavy o
Handheld paper lanterns featuring the OhBear mascot riding a rocking horse are to be handed out during this year's Taiwan Lantern Festival in Chiayi County starting at 3pm daily from March 3 to 15, the Chiayi County Government announced yesterday.The festival is to take place at the plaza in front o
The parents of an elementary-school student could be fined up to NT$300,000 for failing to report their child had been diagnosed with an enterovirus infection, affecting 11 students in Kaohsiung’s Gushan District (鼓山), the city’s Department of Health said today.Enterovirus is a highly contagious gro
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