Sun, Aug 16, 2026
MANUFACTURING RACE: An official said that the NCSIST, which had optimized its assembly lines, overcame challenges posed by the number of orders it received Taiwan has produced 2,577 missiles over the past five years, passing a key test of the nation’s capability to surge military production, a high-ranking defense official said yesterday.The National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) achieved the figure by manufacturing missiles at
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early yesterday, killing at least 38 people, and collapsing buildings and homes.Authorities said that more than a dozen residents were injured.Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground, but l
A Taiwan-based scam ring allegedly funneled more than NT$5 billion (US$156 million) a year to China while targeting Taiwanese and Chinese in the US, Japan and Canada, police said yesterday.Police revealed the case after more than a dozen people were arrested for allegedly transporting cash in a sche
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday stayed away from the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, apparently to prioritize diplomatic relations with China and South Korea, as Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War II.Takaichi mourned the victims of major devastation in Hiroshi
’FARCE’ The budget should not have been cut in the first place, a DPP official said, adding that proposing cuts and then withdrawing them was misleading the public In a dramatic reversal, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday approved the government’s NT$44.2 billion (US$1.38 billion) budget for the development and procurement of uncrewed vehicles until 2030.The KMT caucus had earlier proposed cutting the entire budg
‘WELCOME DEVELOPMENT’: The decision to reduce the referendums from six to three showed that lawmakers have taken a rational approach, the CEC’s chair said The Legislative Yuan yesterday approved three referendums, which would be voted on alongside the local elections in November. It voted down a proposal on a referendum about legalizing euthanasia. The referendums passed are: introducing caning as a criminal punishment, abolishing the government’s “nu
WORRIES: The cuts raise questions about whether the government can maintain basic operations and quickly respond to the public’s needs, a Cabinet official said The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Cabinet traded barbs over cuts to the central government budget, with KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi saying that the 1.689 percent reduction to this year’s central government budget should be seen as a gesture of “great goodwill,” while the Cabinet described t
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s (鄭麗文) controversial cross-strait statements aim to cover up her inability to resolve divisions within the party ahead of the November elections and gain media exposure amid a lack of support from within the KMT, a Democratic Progressive Party
TECH INSIGHTS: Major tech companies’ executives attending the forum would discuss topics from memory and computing to the future of AI infrastructure Semicon Taiwan’s CEO Summit and Ecosystem Executive Summit would be expanded into a full-day event for the first time on Sept. 2, with discussions covering the technologies needed to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) at scale.Organizer SEMI on Friday said the event would bring together executives
Parliamentary staffers from 12 European countries are visiting Taiwan to exchange views on democratic governance, resilience and digital government as part of a Taiwan-organized exchange program, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.The delegation is the second group to visit Taiwan this y
IDEAL RESOURCES: Taiwan’s tech and healthcare could be ideal for hosting clinical trials as the cell and gene therapy industry expands worldwide, the health minister said Taiwan should capitalize on its strengths in Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials and strive to overtake competitors, with the goal of establishing Taiwan as an “Asia-Pacific center for innovative treatments for rare diseases,” said Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) yesterday.He m
EIGHT COMPANIES: Following on the heels of cooking oil containing unsafe levels of benzopyrene, camellia seeds from China used for oil were found to be tainted The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said it would send specialists and local health departments to visit camellia oil factories to help them improve manufacturing procedures next month, as the eighth camellia seed oil maker was found to have a product containing excessive levels of carc
Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) yesterday received a N700ST high-speed train from Japan, the first in a set of 12 ordered by the state-supported corporation.The train arrived at the Port of Kaohsiung to fanfare, with THSRC chairman Shih Che (史哲) co-hosting an event celebrating its arrival at the
What should have been a discussion about the marriage of their children resulted in a brawl between the two fathers due to a disagreement over the dowry and wedding arrangements, according to documents from Keelung District Court.A July 29 ruling said a man surnamed Chang (張) and his girlfriend regi
Taiwan’s university freshman population is expected to decline by an average of 3,400 students each year for the next 16 academic years, falling from 205,000 this year to 151,000 by 2041-42, according to the Ministry of Education.That represents a decrease of 26.34 percent.According to the ministry’
On a 0.8 hectare farm outside Bengaluru, India, Billy, Jessie and Banu put on their gear, enter a laboratory packed with samples and clock in for a shift detecting early signs of cancer. Their most important diagnostic equipment is their noses. Billy, Jessie and Banu are part of a team of beagles, l
Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon’s fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online artificial intelligence (AI)-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practiced there. At 86, Song is one of the last members of a community of visually impaired p
Thomas’ phone alarm buzzes at 9:30pm — it is time for the aspiring bodybuilder to start injecting himself in the stomach with several banned peptides. He takes vials from his refrigerator of GHK-Cu, which he says would give him “beautiful skin,” and Retatrutide, which would help him “feel less hungr
It was shocking to hear Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) say that the legislative branch is somehow now under the control of “dark forces.”Frustrated at the glacial pace of the passage of the government’s annual budget for this year — it was finally passed at 6:08pm on Friday after a record dela
President William Lai (賴清德) late last month received a delegation of Polish members of the European Parliament at the Presidential Office — the first single-party, single-nation delegation from the EU legislature to visit Taipei in nearly two terms. The group, led by former Polish prime minister Bea
What deserves attention in the “group study” (集體學習) sessions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee’s Poliburo is not what is said by Beijing, but what is unsaid. On July 31, Xinhua news agency reported that the poliburo, hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), carried out its
HOME ADVANTAGE? ‘The players are more comfortable in a familiar environment,’ but hosting can also bring added pressure, the Rakuten Monkeys manager said Taiwan is to host the group stage and Super Round of next year’s World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12, as well as the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Baseball Final Qualifier, the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CTBA) announced on Friday.The announcement came after CTBA president Jef
Australia completed a freestyle sweep at the Pan Pacific Championships on Friday after Sam Short clocked a career-best time to win the men’s 400m title in a championship-record time, while compatriot Lani Pallister claimed gold in the women’s race.Short, who also won the 800m freestyle on the openin
As top badminton players descend on New Delhi for the world championships, an unusual band of men have their eyes fixed not on the stars, but on monkeys lurking around.Nazar Khan, 65, is among a four-member team of “monkey whisperers” hired to stop rhesus macaques from gatecrashing the showpiece eve
Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine in six innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers moved back within a game of the National League (NL)-leading Milwaukee Brewers with a 3-1 victory on Friday.Andy Pages and Tommy Edman homered to help the Dodgers win the second game of the four-game series after the Brewe
DEBATED TACTICS: An official said oversight would run ‘alongside the operation from start to finish,’ but a professor said that ‘you can’t hand out obedience’ The US is to allow private companies to hack foreign cybercriminal groups after US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum that directed the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Homeland Security to allow some US firms to spy on and attack transnational criminal organiza
APPEAL: Chey Tae-won’s lawyers said that the case would return to the Supreme Court ‘to minimize negative impact on shareholders and the group’s management’ A South Korean tycoon has appealed a court ruling ordering him to pay US$666 million to his former wife in the country’s largest-ever divorce settlement, his lawyers said yesterday.Chey Tae-won, 65, is the chairman of SK Group, which owns world-leading memory chipmaker SK Hynix — a pillar of South K
A woman is suing the Vienna City Council for discrimination over access to public toilets, complaining that women must pay to use cubicles while men can use urinals for free.“I was in a park with a friend and we both needed to use the bathroom. He could go for free, but I had to pay 50 cents [US$0.5
Aug. 17 to Aug. 23 Subhas Chandra Bose was meant to be in Taiwan for no more than two hours. After refueling at today’s Songshan Airport in Taipei, the Mitsubishi Ki-21 bomber carrying the Indian independence leader took off for Japan — and crashed almost immediately.It was Aug. 18, 1945, thr
These few weeks will decide who ends up on the ballot, and who does not, in this year’s elections. Registration closes on Sep. 4, but until then, politicians may drop in or drop out of the race. Both the pan-green Democratic Progressive Party and the its supporters (DPP) and the pan-blue Chinese Nat
Starting dramatically on a historic trail built by the Japanese above a hot springs town and ending unceremoniously on a muddy, leech-infested forest road after what could be your worst night’s sleep ever in the mountains, the Mabolasi Traverse (馬博拉斯橫斷) is full of challenge and reward. For fit hiker
Continued from yesterday（延續自昨日）https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/langThe pursuit of tranquility continues in the way Swedes navigate social life. Moving from the silence of the woods to the busyness of the streets, visitors find that personal space in Sweden is highly guarded.Swedes follow unwritten
Most prescriptions come with a list of side effects. The Swedish Prescription, however, offers pine-scented air, the slow rhythm of Nordic life, and the idea that recovery can happen in a forest rather than a clinic. Launched by Visit Sweden, this initiative was created in cooperation with medical
A: Besides the National Palace Museum’s Tibetan Dragon Canon exhibit, other popular summer events include the Yilan Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival, Taitung’s International Balloon Festival and the Fulong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival.B: Hey, do you wanna go to Taipei Zoo to se
| New Taipei City | 31-36 | 90% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 31-34 | 20% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 31-33 | 20% | |
| Taipei City | 31-36 | 90% | |
| Miaoli County | 31-34 | 20% |  |
| Taoyuan City | 32-36 | 60% | |
| Keelung City | 30-32 | 70% | |
| Yunlin County | 30-34 | 30% | |
| Taichung City | 31-34 | 30% | |
| Nantou County | 31-34 | 30% | |
| Changhua County | 31-34 | 30% | |
| Chiayi County | 29-32 | 30% | |
| Chiayi City | 29-33 | 30% | |
| Tainan City | 29-31 | 70% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 30-32 | 40% | |
| Pingtung County | 29-32 | 60% | |
| Yilan County | 30-33 | 50% | |
| Hualien County | 31-33 | 20% | |
| Taitung County | 30-32 | 30% | |
| Kinmen County | 29-32 | 10% |  |
| Penghu County | 29-31 | 30% |  |
| Lienchiang County | 29-32 | 10% | |
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