Thu, Sep 10, 2026
FRIENDSHIP: The exchange group is ‘a step in the right direction’ and marked the beginning of closer ties between the nations, a Panamanian lawmaker said The Panamanian National Assembly on Tuesday established a friendship group with the Legislative Yuan, a move welcomed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) as an opportunity to facilitate bilateral exchanges and advance mutual interests.The multiparty interparliamentary exchange group w
An unauthorized drone intrusion over Ching Chuan Kang Air Base (清泉崗基地) at Taichung International Airport on Tuesday night forced the temporary closure of the base, diverting eight fighter jets and delaying a commercial flight, authorities said.Air Force Command Headquarters said that clear weather h
Indonesian rescuers searched for eight people who went missing at sea while heading to a volcanic island to report on an eruption there, officials said yesterday.Anak Krakatau initially erupted for about 25 hours over the weekend, and it has since continued to erupt intermittently with explosions ej
Iran yesterday said it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the US sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.The attacks in and around the vital waterway sent the price of oil
President William Lai (賴清德) on Tuesday met with a Japanese cross-party parliamentary group, with both sides calling for closer Taiwan-Japan cooperation, the Presidential Office said yesterday.During the meeting with the Diet Members’ Association for Peace and Stability in the Taiwan Strait, Lai said
BALLOT INTEGRITY: Groups engaging in activities such as unlicensed money lending and election betting often serve Beijing’s vote disruption efforts, authorities said The authorities have launched 54 probes into suspected foreign election interference and other electoral fraud-related crimes to protect the integrity of the Nov. 28 local elections, the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said yesterday. Special agents launched investigations into illegal fore
Minister of Culture Li Yuan (李遠) yesterday wrapped up his visit to the UK by announcing plans for the launch next year of the Taiwan International Comics Festival, which he said would be curated by a British comics historian.Li unveiled the plan during a visit to the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustr
China Airlines today announced that its booking service fee for international flights would increase from US$30 to US$33 starting on Sept. 22, citing industry standards and market mechanisms.The fee is charged on tickets booked through global distribution systems, which provide airline reservation s
Taiwan yesterday highlighted its technological resilience and capabilities at a semiconductor forum in Antwerp, Belgium, with four national research centers participating in the event.Taiwan's semiconductor strengths extend beyond manufacturing and design to equipment, instrumentation and earthquake
The Executive Yuan today approved an expansion of subsidies for residents of long-term care facilities, allocating NT$16.617 billion (US$27.61 million) to the plan, with about 105,000 people expected to benefit, Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Lu Chien-te (呂建德) said.Under the new plan, the max
Taiwan’s population fell for the 32nd consecutive month to 23,224,721 at the end of last month, data released by the Ministry of the Interior showed today.The figure marks a decline of 103,622 from a year earlier, equivalent to an average daily decrease of 283.9 people. Compared with July, the popul
Showers are forecast for eastern Taiwan and areas north of Taoyuan today as seasonal northeasterly winds intensify, while other parts of the country are expected to remain mostly cloudy to sunny, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.Brief afternoon showers are also forecast in mountainous a
MULTIPLE FACTORS: Personnel, training, system integration and the ability to sustain combat readiness are essential to effective combat capabilities, the vice president said Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) yesterday said Taiwan is working to bolster its defenses against rapidly evolving threats by developing multilayered air defenses, integrating emerging technologies and building a fully non-red drone supply chain.Taiwan has learned from the Russian invasion of Ukra
Taiwan is “not on the right track” to acquire drone capabilities sufficient to deter a Chinese attack, a former top US defense official told the Taipei Security Dialogue yesterday.The Legislative Yuan-approved NT$240 billion (US$7.62 billion) drone budget act, although a welcome development, was too
Taiwan’s growing defense preparations might be sending a stronger signal to the US than to Beijing, highlighting the need for Taipei to tailor its deterrence efforts to different audiences, a US security academic said yesterday.Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies f
Apple Inc yesterday unveiled its latest generation of iPhones, including a widely anticipated foldable version called Duo.Apple CEO John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on Tuesday last week, introduced the latest lineup at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.After cycling through
HIGHEST MONTHLY: ‘AI has created a wave that keeps strengthening demand,’ a statistics official said, adding that upcoming mobile device launches played a part Exports hit a record last month as artificial intelligence (AI) demand continued to spread across semiconductors, servers and other high-tech products, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.Exports rose 41 percent from a year earlier to US$82.4 billion, the highest monthly level on record, the mini
FOUNDRY DATA: Demand pushed production on some TSMC lines to full utilization, while Samsung’s market share of 5.9 percent dropped, TrendForce said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) foundry market share edged up to 72.5 percent in the second quarter from 72.3 percent in the previous quarter, propelled by robust artificial intelligence (AI) and smartphone chip revenue, data compiled by market researcher TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) s
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) is warning people about fake rental listings targeting students and other inexperienced renters as demand rises. Scammers often advertise properties below market rates, claim to be out of town and offer to mail keys via convenience stores for self-guided viewi
Taiwan does not need a CIA deputy director to explain that Beijing treats commerce as a battlefield. It has been living that lesson for decades, watching its chip designers get poached, its retired officers get recruited for cash, and its companies get pressured to choose between the Chinese market
Taiwan has nearly 1 million people in need of long-term care, yet the proportion of people with severe disabilities receiving long-term care benefits has been declining year by year. The gap is not being filled by the government, but by more than 200,000 live-in migrant care workers who are not cove
The families of two Taiwanese gymnasts today filed a complaint against Chinese Taipei Gymnastics Association (CTGA) secretary-general Chiang Chien-tung (江建東) at the Pingtung District Prosecutors’ Office, accusing him of breach of trust for forfeiting the athletes’ opportunities to compete at the Art
Taiwan yesterday secured a place in the super round of the BFA U18 Asian Baseball Championship with a 16-1 victory over Singapore in the final preliminary-round game.All nine members of Taiwan's starting lineup recorded at least one hit at Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium as the hosts improved to 2-1
QUARTER-FINAL SHOCK: Carlos Alcaraz made uncharacteristic unforced errors in the late night battle with Ben Shelton, while Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko were knocked out Ben Shelton sent defending champion Carlos Alcaraz packing from the US Open quarter-finals in the early hours yesterday, the pair slugging it out in the latest-finishing match in tournament history, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and partner Jelena Ostapenko lost out at the women’s doubles’ quarter-fin
Athletes who had arrived early for the Asian Games were unharmed by extensive flooding that hit the central Japanese city of Nagoya, Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa said yesterday.“We are not worried about the conditions of the venues and we believe there is no problem holding the Asian Games as planned,” Hir
Tung Chee-hwa (董建華), Hong Kong's first leader after the territory’s return to Chinese rule, has died aged 89, his office said yesterday.Tung was "an outstanding contributor to ‘one country, two systems,’ a renowned patriot, an outstanding social activist and a close friend of the Communist Party of
PIVOT: Carney urged a further shift from the US, warning that while there would be a cost to taking action, it would not compare to the cost of standing still The US on Tuesday banned a broad swath of Canadian alcoholic beverages, motorcycles and dairy products from import, sharply escalating an already acrimonious trade spat.The import bans, which go into effect on Sept. 29 and were published on the White House’s Web site, came after Canada’s own retalia
China yesterday marked half a century since the death of Mao Zedong (毛澤東), founder of the People’s Republic, who brought roughly one-quarter of the world’s population under communist rule and whose specter still haunts China’s future.Mao’s death on Sept. 9, 1976, at age 82, mourned by many and welco
Drones are widely recognized as a critical weapons technology of the future. Because of this, the pro-China Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) appear to be obstructing their development. One approach to handling this obstruction is to circumvent it by building robust
In the words of Joni Mitchell, the planners of many urban centers around the world “paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The European Prize for Urban Public Space tries to show that cities don’t have to be locked in the automotive age for ever.The prize’s latest shortlist, announced yesterday,
Alfred McCoy has been a thorn in the side of the CIA at the very least since 1972, when he published The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, a book the agency tried — and failed — to kill.Now, with his latest, The Cold War on Five Continents, McCoy continues to hammer the CIA for its crimes of the
A: The legendary “Queen of Country” and original singer of the megahit “I Will Always Love You” Dolly Parton passed away recently. It’s truly heartbreaking. B: And US pop singer Ariana Grande recently announced that she’d withdraw from next year’s London musical and take a “step back” from the pub
“OK.” You say it dozens of times a day without giving it a second thought. It slips effortlessly into text messages, office meetings and casual chats alike. Yet behind this surprisingly simple expression lies one of the most entertaining origin stories in the history of language.The story begins in
NASA’s new flagship astronomical observatory was launched into space from Florida on Aug. 10 on a mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly US$4 billion project, was carried aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center abo
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