Thu, Sep 24, 2026
BIG BANG: The new Cheetah prototype demonstrated different firing techniques on stationary and moving targets, as well as its ‘hunter-killer’ mode in Tainan The Armaments Bureau yesterday showcased the Cheetah (獵豹), a 105mm wheeled armored fighting vehicle, which is to enter mass production next year.The vehicle, jointly developed by the Armaments Bureau and the National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, first passed army tests in 2023. The
Most of Taiwan should expect partly cloudy to sunny weather over the holiday this week, with favorable conditions to view the moon across Taiwan on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday.However, a tropical depression last night developed i
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday said she had a “timely” discussion about China with US President Donald Trump ahead of his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) today.“Japan considers it important that US-China relations contribute to the stability of the internatio
With the Taiex, the Taiwan Stock Exchange’s benchmark index, repeatedly hitting a fresh high, the local bourse ranked as the fourth-largest stock market in terms of market value in the world as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the up-to-the-minute data released by MarketCapWatch.On Wednesday, th
CALL: US, Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers expressed support for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in appropriate international organizations The US on Monday reiterated its commitment to the defense of key Asian allies Japan and South Korea, and the three nations expressed support for Taiwan ahead of a summit this week between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平). Analysts say the US allies are anxious that Tr
AT-RISK GROUPS: Of the accumulated 1,586 severe cases and 304 related deaths in this flu season, 65.8% were older people and 83.2% had chronic diseases, an official said The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday said that 165 severe flu cases and 30 flu-related deaths were reported last week, the highest weekly numbers in this flu season, and that cases might continue to increase, urging people to take precautions. Medical visits for flu-like illnesses increas
INSPIRATION ASSOCIATION: Among those who disapproved of the legislature, 36.1 percent said that the budget review process had been slow and inefficient Strong public dissatisfaction with the opposition-controlled Legislative Yuan is a stinging rebuke of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), the Taiwan Inspiration Association told a news conference in Taipei yesterday, citing the results of a poll.The survey of Tai
EYE ON ARMS: The Chinese leader’s top priority is to slow approval of US arms packages to Taiwan, but Washington is aware of Beijing’s strategy, the official said Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) will try to pressure US President Donald Trump to postpone arms sales to Taiwan and roll back deployments of US forces in the Indo-Pacific region, a senior Taiwanese official said yesterday.Xi was expected to arrive in the US after press time last night and meet wi
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) are expected to discuss trade, artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at a summit beginning in Washington today, with academics saying the talks would also aim to manage competition between the two countries.The summit, the leaders’ s
The Minimum Wage Review Committee is to meet today to decide whether to increase the minimum wage next year, with Minister of Labor Hung Sun-han (洪申翰) saying the monthly rate could top NT$30,000 (US$946) and the hourly rate NT$200.The committee — comprising representatives of labor groups, businesse
Taiwan debuted its first-ever national pavilion at the InnonTrans global transportation technology trade fair in Berlin on Tuesday, aimed at demonstrating resilient railway solutions and attracting international partners, officials said at the event.Organized by the Ministry of Transportation and Co
The Tourism Administration yesterday unveiled a new marketing campaign — which includes airline partnerships, travel platforms, tourism products and international content creators — to attract international visitors to southern Taiwan.The Check in and Discover Southern Taiwan campaign, organized by
Fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters from the three branches of the military yesterday morning conducted a route survey ahead of flight rehearsals for this year’s Double Ten National Day celebrations, with the Ministry of National Defense promising a spectacle similar to previous years while incorpor
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday urged people to take precautions against gastroenteritis during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when barbecues, family gatherings and outings are popular.People planning to barbecue during the holiday should use fresh ingredients, keep raw and cooked food se
SANCTIONS: Social workers found guilty of committing crime related to their duties would have their certificate revoked and name published on the ministry’s Web site The Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday said it had asked the Taipei City Government to launch an administrative investigation after a former social worker supervisor was on Tuesday detained for allegedly embezzling NT$12 million (US$378,358) from elderly people.Prosecutors and police received
Taiwan’s industrial production last month set a new record, with the index soaring more than 23 percent from a year earlier due to robust global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.Ministry data showed the local industrial production
AMBITIOUS OUTLOOK: Taiwan aims to increase its manufacturing capability to produce an annually increasing percentage of large, medium and small drones The Ministry of Economic Affairs has increased its forecast of Taiwan’s drone industry output to about NT$50 billion (US$1.57 billion) by 2030 from an earlier estimate of NT$40 billion, thanks to rapidly growing demand.Drones are emerging as important tools of modern combat and reshaping traditional
Solar cell and module supplier United Renewable Energy Co (URE, 聯合再生) yesterday said its US revenue would double next year, mainly benefiting from a market realignment fueled by US solar reshoring policies and crackdowns on Chinese green energy companies.To capitalize on the new market opportunities
The growing number of Chinese spouses participating in Taiwanese politics should not, in itself, be cause for alarm, but does warrant scrutiny of candidates, their political networks and their sources of support. Taiwan is a democracy, and voters should ultimately decide who is suitable to represent
Beijing has for decades insisted that Taiwan is a matter to be settled between China and the US — or, preferably, by China alone. The strategic environment around Taiwan is making that increasingly difficult.The clearest evidence this week came not from Washington or Beijing, but from Tokyo.Japanese
Taiwan’s approach to managing extreme heat is evolving. On Sept. 3, the Ministry of Environment held its first extreme heat response drill, running a scenario where temperatures reached 40°C or higher and bringing together dozens of central and local government agencies to test their responses. Extr
UNINSPIRING GUNNERS: Arsenal, the UEFA Women’s Champions League winners two seasons ago, made a faltering start to their bid to reclaim the continent’s top trophy Manchester City on Tuesday fought from two goals down to grab a 2-2 draw at Bayern Munich to start their UEFA Women’s Champions League season, while Mariona Caldentey was the hero as Arsenal left it late in their opener. Bayern raced into a 2-0 lead thanks to Giulia Gwinn’s early strike, and a Kerst
Drew Rasmussen on Tuesday allowed his only hit in the seventh inning and struck out 11 as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 6-1 in the second game of a day-night doubleheader to clinch their fifth American League East title. The Rays (96-61) secured home-field advantage throughout the AL
Taiwanese soft tennis player Chen Po-yi yesterday put up a good fight against defending champion Toshiki Uematsu of Japan in the men’s singles semi-finals before losing 4-2 at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. With bronze awarded to both losing semi-finalists, Chen secured his second medal of this year’
Taiwanese sharpshooter Lee Meng-yuan yesterday won bronze in the men’s skeet event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, becoming the first Taiwanese athlete to medal in the event at the Asian Games. The 32-year-old clinched the bronze with 29 hits, finishing behind Qatar’s Rashid Saleh al-Athba, who won
CALL FOR ACTION: Governments can prepare with heat-warning systems, cooling centers, hydration stations, expanded hospital capacity and anticipatory financing This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it is driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, a research report released yesterday said.The grim warning by the University of
‘BIG DECISION’: Trump suggested he was at a crossroads in his UN address, saying he would make a deal with Iran or ‘annihilate’ it; the Iranian delegates walked out The first shuttle talks between the US and Iran for months raised hopes yesterday that the adversaries could make some progress toward ending the Middle East war, although neither side spelled out any change in their positions.Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araqchi and US envoys Steve Wit
The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, yesterday lowered the number of votes needed to convict Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, reducing the threshold prosecutors must clear to secure a guilty verdict.The court ruled that only senator-judges that are able to participate in th
The tussle between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and its pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) allies and fellow travelers, and the pro-Taiwan side in politics is in part a struggle over defining the nation’s agency in international spaces. What kind of agency does Taiwan have?The United Daily
Taiwan wants AI to know more about Taiwan. On Sept. 15, the Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) invited publishers, writers and electronic-book platforms to contribute to Taiwan’s Sovereign AI Training Corpus. The database now contains about 5,000 datasets and well over a 2.2 billion tokens of text.D
For years, artificial intelligence researchers have warned of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes.Debates inside the AI industry and beyond
A: The four-day Mid-Autumn Festival-Teachers’ Day holiday weekend will begin tomorrow. I’m going to several concerts, and then Maokong hill to admire the moon. B: I heard astrologer Celine has released a lunar phase-themed luck quiz that can predict your fortune. A: Yeah, which shape would you ch
When we use phones, laptops, or wireless earbuds, we rarely pause to ask what makes these devices so light, efficient and powerful. Hidden inside them are “rare earth elements” (REEs), indispensable to modern life yet central to global controversy.REEs are a group of 17 similar metals that are diffi
The heads of leading US AI labs came together in a rare show of unity earlier this month, agreeing to slow the technology’s development, warning it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control.The remarks, from fierce business rivals such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altm
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