Thu, Oct 22, 2026
CLOSE TIES: Uber Eats and Grab’s years of collaboration in other markets and Uber’s stake in Grab would make them less likely to compete aggressively, the FTC said The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) today blocked Grab Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Delivery Hero SE’s Foodpanda operations in Taiwan, citing concerns that the deal would negatively impact competition in Taiwan’s food delivery market.Uber, the parent company of Taiwan’s leading food delivery p
The US Army would improve its warfighting infrastructure in the Pacific with its forward-deployed “inside forces” ready to act immediately on day one of a conflict in the First Island Chain, which includes Taiwan, it said in a report released this month.How the Army Fights, an operational warfare gu
FRIDAY, SATURDAY: While Typhoon Champi might weaken, officials warned about large waves, while some transport services and tourist spots have been affected Typhoon Champi is forecast to have the greatest effect on Taiwan tomorrow and on Saturday, with a sea warning issued late last night and a land warning expected afternoon today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday.The storm’s projected track has shifted slightly westward and it
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff yesterday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider resuming US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine and to review new ideas on ending the war amid Washington’s latest push to stop Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.The talks in a grand imperial palac
Global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions are falling far short of the Paris Agreement and put the world on course for 2.6°C warming this century, the UN said yesterday.Even if countries deliver their latest climate pledges in full, global temperatures could still rise 2.6°C above pre-indus
The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) today blocked Grab Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Delivery Hero SE’s Foodpanda operations in Taiwan, citing concerns that the deal would negatively impact competition in Taiwan’s food delivery market. Uber, the parent company of Taiwan’s leading food delivery
‘NEW CHAPTER’: The MOU would pave the way for mutually beneficial initiatives, and marks the beginning of a stronger and more resilient partnership, officials said Taiwan and Kansas earlier this month signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on trade, agreeing to deepen cooperation in aerospace, aviation, advanced air mobility, biomedicine, animal health, precision agriculture and delivery services.Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Denver Directo
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) yesterday traded barbs over Taiwan’s refusal to grant Chinese actor Zhang Linghe (張凌赫) entry into the nation.Zhang stars in the popular Chinese period romance TV series Pursuit of Jade (逐玉).Earlier yesterday, the TAO slammed
‘CORRUPTION’: The Taitung government was said to have used public funds to build a road serving a resort owned by the family of ex-county commissioner Wu Chun-li The Taitung District Court yesterday granted a NT$5 million (US$153,903) bail, imposed travel restrictions and ordered electronic monitoring for former Taitung County commissioner Wu Chun-li (吳俊立) after prosecutors sought his detention over alleged corruption. The Taitung District Prosecutors’ Offic
Nagoya Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa yesterday apologized for playing the Iranian national anthem at the awards ceremony for a Taiwanese athlete and other mistakes at the ongoing Asian Para Games. Hirosawa, who is a member of the game’s organizing committee, said the wrong national anthem was played three t
The Taiwan Space Agency’s (TASA) Startup CubeSat Program has launched two more satellites to test technologies for a future low-Earth orbit communications network. Both spacecraft established preliminary contact with ground stations after liftoff aboard a SpaceX rideshare mission.The two 8U CubeSats
Starting from Saturday next week, the Danjiang Bridge (淡江大橋) in New Taipei City is to have a rotation for four weeks of all its seasonal and holiday-themed light displays, the Highway Bureau said yesterday. The new bridge connecting the city’s Tamsui (淡水) and Bali (八里) districts opened to traffic on
The ambassador of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to Taiwan yesterday called Taiwan a “faithful partner” that has helped his country develop and prosper, as the Caribbean nation marked the 47th anniversary of its independence at a reception in Taipei.“Today, we pay tribute to our developmen
NUCLEAR FACILITY: More than 5,000 people would be eligible for check-ups, which would include physicals, medical tests and assessments, the health ministry said A comprehensive health assessment and care program is to be established on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼), the Ministry of Health and Welfare said yesterday.The program, which is to be run in collaboration with the Taitung County Government, is expected to benefit about 5,300 people, the ministry said.Mi
As of Monday, 18 new cases of mpox had been reported this month, topping the highest monthly number in two years, with local cases having been reported weekly for seven consecutive weeks, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Tuesday.CDC data showed that 52 mpox cases had been reported so fa
SUPPLY CRUNCH: Powerchip said it expects price hikes this quarter to be 30 percent, following a rise of 23 percent last quarter, to address persistent capacity constraints Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (力積電) is negotiating with customers to further hike prices by 10 to 20 percent next year, the logic and memory chipmaker said yesterday, citing persistent capacity constraints across the industry.The company said it would prioritize capacity allocation for
Moody’s Ratings yesterday upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) credit rating to “Aa2” from “Aa3,” citing its technological leadership in advanced chipmaking, exceptionally strong financial position and strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips.The agency also revis
Electricity consumption by Taiwan’s semiconductor industry topped 4.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) for the first time last month, a record driven by stronger-than-expected demand for artificial intelligence (AI), the Taiwan Research Institute (TRI, 台綜院) said yesterday.As AI technologies develop rapidly and
In an interview on Oct. 14, Kyushu University professor Chisako Masuo said that Taiwan and Japan lack close cooperation despite generally favorable public perceptions of each other. Both sides assume they understand one another, but have made little effort to exchange views on important issues, she
Chinese-language media on Friday last week reported that a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Central Standing Committee member has filed a petition to expel media personality and politician Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) from the party for interviews with Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and Taipei mayora
The navy IS planning to hire fishers (“Military to enlist civilians to map coast,” Oct. 18, page 1). The Ministry of National Defense’s Defense Innovation Division is to contract private survey firms to fit civilian fishing boats with multibeam echo sounders to map the seabed to depths of up to 3m o
POTENTIAL TROUBLE: Luis Enrique’s PSG have won seven matches in a row altogether, but they lost Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to injury AFP, PARIS Vitinha’s superb late strike on Tuesday proved crucial as reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain saw off rivals Barcelona 4-2 in a dramatic game between two of the leading contenders to win this season’s UEFA Champions League. The match was poised at 2-2 when the Portuguese playmaker, who
LeBron James and his new Philadelphia 76ers teammates on Tuesday crashed the New York Knicks’ season-opening celebrations, beating the defending NBA champions 106-100 on the night they raised their title banner at Madison Square Garden. James, 41, entering a record-extending 24th NBA season with his
The Milwaukee Brewers ran a promotion over a decade ago offering fans a “Timeless Ticket” granting them admission to any game in the future if they paid US$1,000. Now that the Brewers are in the MLB World Series for the first time since 1982, fans who took that deal are eager to redeem those tickets
The English Independent Football Regulator (IFR) would have “absolute power” to force Manchester City’s owners to sell if they are found to have run the club improperly, the watchdog’s chairman has said. English Premier League leaders City have been found guilty of more than 100 charges of breaking
SOUL-SEARCHING: The governor-general said the nation was crying out for ‘decency’ following the attack and amid a rise in threats and abuse toward elected officials Australian lawmaker Helen Haines has had both legs amputated after being rammed by a car outside her electoral office, her husband said yesterday, as the man accused of the attack appeared in court.Doctors amputated Haines’ left leg after the alleged attacker struck her twice with his car in Wangara
A STEP UP: The moving of small military positions forward should be taken seriously amid the North’s recent demonstrations of its firepower, an analyst said North Korea has moved new units into “firing positions,” the sister of leader Kim Jong-un said yesterday, days after Pyongyang warned it was considering deploying additional strike means to its border with South Korea.Tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang have soared since the South last month blamed
A shark that became a sensation after spending more than a month in a canal in the South Korean port city of Busan was yesterday guided back into the open sea, following two failed rescue attempts, the South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said.The shark, affectionately nicknamed “Bukhangi,”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) was in Arizona on Oct. 5, to launch the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Phoenix, the 14th such de facto Taiwanese consulate in the US. In response, Liu Chang (劉暢), a spokesperson for China’s embassy in the US, said in a statement the same
A poll earlier this week by Taipei Trust in Democracy Association had challenger Puma Shen (沈伯洋) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ahead by 17 percentage points in the Taipei mayoral race over incumbent Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Yet the upheaval in the polit
The Taipei that Tsering Namgyal Khortsa gives us in his new novella, A Season of Retreat, takes us back to the 1990s and 2000s. In that not so distant past, Taipei was a city on the cusp of affluence, though its blossoms were only starting to sprout through its grubby exterior. At the same time, the
A: How will you spend the holiday weekend for the Taiwan Retrocession Day and the Anniversary of the Battle of Guningtou?B: I’m staying at home to watch the new NBA season, which finally kicked off yesterday. Basketball superstar LeBron James has now joined the Philadelphia 76ers.A: Wow, this is
After Taiwan and India signed a memorandum of understanding in 2024, Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor announced that roughly 1,000 Indian migrant workers could arrive as early as the end of this year. The policy immediately sparked fierce online debate, with supporters calling it a remedy for labor shorta
Sudden restrictions on Starshield — SpaceX’s military-grade version of the Starlink satellite Internet service and the backbone of Ukraine’s drone operations and communication — alarmed the country’s military and government officials last week, with commanders reporting lost drones and disrupted mis
| New Taipei City | 24-24 | 50% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 23-25 | 60% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 23-25 | 40% | |
| Taipei City | 23-24 | 80% | |
| Miaoli County | 22-27 | 20% |  |
| Taoyuan City | 23-25 | 80% | |
| Keelung City | 23-24 | 60% | |
| Yunlin County | 23-30 | 0% |  |
| Taichung City | 24-29 | 10% | |
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| Kaohsiung City | 26-33 | 10% | |
| Pingtung County | 25-33 | 20% | |
| Yilan County | 22-24 | 50% | |
| Hualien County | 25-30 | 30% | |
| Taitung County | 24-32 | 20% |  |
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| Penghu County | 25-27 | 0% | |
| Lienchiang County | 21-25 | 0% |  |
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