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The army plans to commission the National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to build dedicated testing facilities for its indigenously developed Lu Chien II (陸射劍二, “Land Sword II”) missile systems, with a budget of more than NT$295 million (US$9.27 million), marking move toward
The percentage of inmates serving sentences for drug use has fallen over the past five years, largely due to community-based addiction treatment for people whose crimes were relatively minor, the Agency of Corrections said yesterday.The government uses deferred prosecution with court-mandated addict
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday announced military aid for Ukraine worth about 1 billion euros (US$1.13 billion) and an energy support package during a visit to Kyiv, as the Ukrainian capital the same day came under renewed attack from Russian drones.Merz, who was accompanied by a senior
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday urged “dialogue, not confrontation” ahead of talks among African leaders as concerns grow that Ethiopia’s escalating violence could spill across borders.Al-Sisi was due to meet the leaders of Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan in El-Alamein later in the day,
SHIFTING COOPERATION: With the new arrangement, US representatives would be able to participate directly in defense discussions, including weapons procurement Taiwan-US military cooperation is deepening, with the Pentagon expected to station personnel at the Ministry of National Defense (MND), sources said.The NT$470 million (US$14.77 million) joint program is scheduled to run from this year through 2028, under which the Pentagon would dispatch representa
DEEPENING TIES: The arrival of fighter jets purchased from the US and Lin Chia-lung’s participation in the office inauguration shows progress in cooperation, a source said Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) is today scheduled to unveil a new Taiwan office in Phoenix, Arizona, signaling continued Taiwan-US cooperation after US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) last month, a source said yesterday.Lin would arrive in Ph
JET SET: The minister’s trip, as well as a visit by former president Tsai, are not sudden developments in response to the Trump-Xi visit, an expert said Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) late on Saturday arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, to begin a three-day visit, including the opening of Taiwan’s new representative office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.Lin is to preside over the unveiling ceremony for the Taipei Economic
DIPLOMACY: Washington should be reluctant to squander one of its greatest strategic advantages, its network of capable allies and partners, an analyst said Fundamental differences between the US and China make major disputes difficult to resolve, but create an opportunity for Taipei to deepen economic and security ties with Washington, China expert Miles Yu (余茂春) said Saturday.Yu, director of the China Center at the Washington-based think tank Hudson I
Four more people have been reported missing in China, bringing the total number of Taiwanese who have been reported missing, detained for questioning or suspected of having their freedom of movement restricted from Jan. 1, 2024, to Friday to 453, the Mainland Affairs Council said in its weekly repor
The opening of a joint air support center in Laos is part of China’s decades-long power-projection efforts to extend its influence into the Indian Ocean, a Taiwanese defense expert said yesterday.The Chinese Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday last week announced that the China-Laos Joint Supp
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) would intensify “gray zone” activities around Taiwan during his fourth term, further undermining regional stability, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said on Saturday.Xi is expected to secure a fourth five-year term at the 21st National
UNWELCOME THROWBACK: Groups condemned police for the ‘heavy-handed’ raid and the arrogant conduct of officers, saying it belied Taipei’s LGBTQ-friendly reputation Civic groups yesterday protested what they called the police’s excessively forceful raid on a Taipei gay bar on Saturday, calling on police to apologize, protect marginalized groups and stop stigmatizing LGBTQ culture. Police from Taipei’s Wanhua Precinct on Saturday afternoon raided the bar Command
BAD-FAITH ARGUMENTS: KMT lawmakers attempted to drag Shen for 12-year-old article, while Chiang blamed a paid campaign for the Internet opprobrium Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) and Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) continued to clash over drug policy yesterday.The dispute began after Shen introduced a campaign platform with four strategies to combat dr
A local public health study found that methadone maintenance treatment and needle and syringe programs are highly cost-effective in reducing HIV transmission, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said yesterday.Lo made the remarks amid a heated debate online over methad
The Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted a soldier on a charge of disobeying orders after he allegedly refused to go to sleep or get out of bed, seeking a heavy sentence.The soldier, surnamed Lee (李), assigned to the 302nd Infantry Brigade at the Chenggong Ling (成功嶺) training depot in
NEW HIGH: Exposure to the US accounted for 30.28 percent of the local banking sector’s total at the end of June, up from 29.75 at the end of March, data showed The US remained the largest debtor of Taiwanese banks for the 44th consecutive quarter at the end of June, with its share of Taiwanese banks’ total exposure surpassing 30 percent for the first time, the central bank said on Friday.Taiwanese banks’ exposure to the US on an immediate counterparty basi
SAFEGUARDING: AI companies should create layers of safety ‘so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster,’ the ex-Open AI employee said Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of frantic calls to make artificial intelligence (AI) safe, saying that the industry must mimic the aviation or nuclear power sectors with their layers of safeguards to avoid disaster.In an article published in The Atlantic Magazine, Dav
Bankers in Hong Kong skipped the summer break as an artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled rush for capital sent share sales to a record, defying a bruising selloff in the city’s stocks.Initial public offerings (IPOs), placements and block trades raised US$47.5 billion in July to last month, the bigges
When Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) reported on the government’s six priority policy directions to the legislature during its opening session on Tuesday last week, he was not addressing a full house. All of the opposition lawmakers were absent during Cho’s 20-minute report, setting the tone for yet anot
During a tour of Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華) on Sept. 22, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) proposed a seemingly appealing urban-planning vision for the area: linking Xinfu Market (新富市場), East Sanshui Street Market (東三水街市場), Longshan Temple (龍山寺), Bopiliao Historical Block (剝皮寮歷史街區), Bangka Park (艋
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) received two different welcomes within the space of 10 days — one in New Delhi and the other in Washington. In diplomatic protocol, the two could hardly have been more different. Yet, in their own ways, neither appeared particularly easy for Xi to digest. The disco
THREE LIONS: ‘I love the attitude. We always played humble and always got the basics right, and that’s why it was a complete performance,’ Tuchel said after their 7-0 win FIFA World Cup winners Spain were on Saturday made to work for a 3-1 win against the Czech Republic in the UEFA Nations League while England sparkled in thrashing Croatia 7-0. Spain recorded their 41st consecutive unbeaten game thanks to an exquisite finish from Lamine Yamal before goals from Rodri
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games yesterday wrapped up its final day of events, with Taiwan taking home only five gold medals, its lowest total since the 1990 games in Beijing. Taiwan, competing under the name Chinese Taipei, also won 17 silvers and 33 bronzes to finish with a total of 55 medals. While t
The Los Angeles Dodgers, chasing a rare World Series three-peat, on Saturday opened their MLB playoff campaign with a 5-3 win over Atlanta as the Tampa Bay Rays rode a one-hit gem from pitcher Drew Rasmussen to score a 1-0 win over the New York Yankees. Six strong innings from pitcher Tarik Skubal,
Taiwanese tennis players Hsieh Su-wei and Chan Hao-ching on Saturday revived their feud at the Asian Games, with Chan fuming at Hsieh for a handshake snub at the end of their women’s doubles final in Nagoya, Japan. The pair last month did not shake hands following a tense US Open doubles match in wh
STRAIN ON TIES: The police arrested a 20-year-old man who matched the description of a suspect caught on CCTV leaving a hotel in Naha with the victim’s belongings A US Marine stationed on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said yesterday. The suspect “killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday,” a local police spokesman said.US Ambassador George Glass pos
Working from before dawn until midnight, farmers Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy and Laszlo Pajsan fought Europe’s driest summer ever to save their red pepper harvest in Hungary.Unable to irrigate much of their two-and-a-half-hectare land because power lines run across it, they repeatedly loosened the soil ar
Nearly 1,500 Burmese migrants from Malaysia returned to their war-ravaged home country yesterday under an opaque repatriation scheme that rights monitors say cannot assure their safety.Dozens of migrants were transported on buses to a Buddhist monastery hall for immigration and health checks, after
In 1904 the Japanese introduced caning to Taiwan. As a punishment, caning was applied by the Japanese to Taiwanese and Chinese subjects, never to the Japanese themselves (it had been outlawed in Japan in 1882). An imperial and colonial act, caning thus functioned to define and display social class b
OCT. 5 to OCT. 11Many worshippers of Taoist deity Lord Su (蘇府王爺) had never witnessed his “north-south grand inspection tour” of central Taiwan. The historic procession last took place in 1969, and before that, in 1893.Lukang’s Fengtian Temple (奉天宮) in Changhua County last Sunday completed Lord S
Speculation started to fly last month that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidates running in the November elections wanted to keep their distance from party Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文). That some in the KMT were concerned that Cheng’s firm ideological adherence to the “one China principle” is no se
1. 不該把一個生病的孩子獨自留在家裡。ˇ It’s not advisable to leave a sick child all alone at home.χ It’s not advisable to leave an ill child all alone at home.註︰ill 和 sick 都可用作補語形容詞，例如：〔英語〕I have been ill/unwell for two weeks.〔美語〕I have been sick for two weeks.但作為修飾形容詞置於名詞之前時，英美都用 sick，不用 ill，如 a sick man /woman, a
Some characters exist only in a fictional world, while others step into real life. These are the mascots people often see at sports events, in amusement parks, during marketing campaigns or even on busy shopping streets. They possess a magnetic charm that transcends age and language. Yet beneath eve
Toxic chemicals from discarded electronic devices may be threatening endangered dolphins and porpoises in the South China Sea, according to a recent scientific study. Liquid crystal monomers (LCMs), chemicals widely used in smartphones, televisions and computer screens, were detected in several mari
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| Hsinchu County | 24-26 | 20% | |
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| Taipei City | 25-26 | 40% |  |
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