Tue, Aug 25, 2026
LONG LIFE: Taiwan’s average life expectancy of 81.27 was higher than the global average of 73.5, with women outliving men by nearly seven years, official data showed Taiwan’s average life expectancy climbed to 81.27 last year from 80.77 a year earlier, with Taipei recording the longest average at 83.98, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday.Despite the year-on-year rise, Taiwan’s national average life expectancy had not yet returned to the pre-COVID-19 pea
Heavy rain brought by a low-pressure system and strong southwesterly winds triggered widespread flooding, landslides and damage across central, southern and eastern Taiwan yesterday, disrupting travel and prompting mass evacuations.As of 6pm yesterday, torrential rains had left one person dead in Ta
European leaders yesterday joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv for celebrations marking the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day as Russia pressed on with its four-year-old invasion of the country.With no significant changes on the front line for months and no apparent p
A US government plan to lease out millions of hectares of seabed near the Mariana Trench for deep sea exploration has drawn opposition from US territories in the Pacific, as US President Donald Trump’s administration remains locked in a race with China for control of critical ocean minerals.The Mari
‘UNITED’: Taiwan has increased military spending and improved wages and benefits for military personnel, Lai said, urging people to defend the nation together Even in peacetime, forgetting war is dangerous, but Taiwan will uphold the spirit of those who were on the front lines of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and not cede an inch of territory, President William Lai (賴清德) said in Kinmen County yesterday during an event marking the 68th anniversary of the
DELUGE: The Tainan City Government requested five mobile water pumps from the central government to supplement the 511 pumps it had already prepared Torrential rain caused by the combined effects of southwesterly winds and a low-pressure belt battered southern Taiwan yesterday, causing widespread flooding across Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung County.More than 2,300 people were evacuated as authorities warned of continued heavy rain through tomor
OIL AND WATER: Sources said that the case involves Kin Hsing Marine Co, a shipping company that had secured transportation contract from CPC Corp Taipei prosecutors yesterday searched the offices of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chen Hsueh-sheng (陳雪生) over allegations he lobbied on behalf of a company that funded one of his assistants.The operation, including searches at his offices in Taipei and Lienchiang County (Matsu), contin
Two Chinese maritime actions near Taiwan this month demonstrate Beijing’s efforts to expand its reach and challenge the international order, a national security source said yesterday.In the first action, China’s Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration said it would impose “traffic controls” on vess
Sister-city arrangements, memoranda of understanding and regular exchange mechanisms could become important channels for Taiwan, even as its formal diplomatic space in the region remains constrained, the Central European Institute of Asian Studies said in a report.Taiwan has in the past few years ex
BROAD AUTHORITY: Local governments in border areas would be authorized to independently impose exist restrictions, substantially increasing personal safety risks Taiwanese visiting China could be detained for being involved in sensitive technology or working for a “hostile company” under Beijing’s new border controls, a national security source said yesterday.China is on Sept. 15 to implement revised entry and exit regulations that, together with the Ethnic
Taiwan’s AT-3 trainer aircraft has completed its final flight-training missions and been replaced by the Brave Eagle advanced jet trainer (AJT), a source familiar with the matter said yesterday.The AT-3 has been one of the Air Force’s trainer aircraft since it entered service in 1984. It was joi
ACCESS: The Taiwan Go Go political alliance urged the government to implement measures such as abolishing mandatory two-stage left turns ahead of local elections Although the government has budgeted more than NT$40 billion (US$1.26 billion) to improve pedestrian safety and walking infrastructure, pedestrian fatalities remain high and sidewalks are still inadequate, members of a political alliance said yesterday. Taipei City Council candidates from Taiwan Go
REGULATION: Businesses must provide users with sufficient and accurate information about how to subscribe to and cancel digital subscription services, the Cabinet said The government would soon require digital service providers to stop automatically renewing subscriptions, and allow users to manually select and confirm renewals by checking a clearly labeled box, the Executive Yuan said yesterday. The issue was first raised by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legisl
The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) yesterday announced that two research rockets, SST3 and FARCX-1, completed test flights despite heavy rain at the short-term research rocket launch site in Pingtung County’s Syuhai Village (旭海). SST3 is the largest solid-propellant sounding rocket launched in Taiwan by
A public survey on food safety related to the Central Union Oil Corp (CUOC) soybean oil scandal released yesterday showed that 61 percent of the respondents have no confidence in the government’s food safety inspection mechanism and 63 percent are against allowing sales of processed food products co
THREE POINTS: The industrial trade group recommended more diverse as well as greater generation capability, higher wages for workers, and more migrant workers Taiwan’s top industrial trade group, the Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI, 全國工業總會), urged the government yesterday to diversify the nation’s energy mix, step up support for traditional industries and ease restrictions on migrant workers, as a widening labor shortage threatens to hinde
DedicateD LINES: Taipower is planning on running power lines directly from power plants to high-draw data center sites, skipping the grid entirely for resilience reasons Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) plans to supply electricity to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers through direct lines, as rising AI demand puts pressure on the grid, Taipower chairman Tseng Wen-sheng (曾文生) said on Sunday. The utility plans to allow AI data center operators to manage those ded
Taiwan’s unemployment rate rose to 3.39 percent last month from 3.34 percent in June, as new graduates and students entered the labor market, although the increase was largely seasonal, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said yesterday.Last month’s figure remained t
Last year, the nation’s average household disposable income rose 3.9 percent year-on-year to a record NT$1.21 million (US$37,986), but the income ratio of the highest-earning 20 percent and the lowest-earning 20 percent widened to 6.17, the highest in 14 years, from 6.14 in the previous year, data r
Climate change has progressed far more rapidly and with greater intensity than some thought possible. Events once thought of as once-in-a-century occurrences — urban flooding caused by torrential rain, powerful typhoons and severe droughts — have become increasingly common, while earthquakes can com
President William Lai (賴清德) has announced a NT$10,000 cash handout to every citizen to share the economic dividends generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Significant precedent has been built up over the past few years of ruling and opposition parties supporting such cash handouts from
RECALL REVENGE: Called back up from Triple-A, Teng had a good Sunday, while Lee Hao-yu got two hits on the road with Detroit against the Kansas City Royals Houston Astros right-hander Teng Kai-wei struck out four over 1-2/3 scoreless innings against the Athletics on Sunday in his first MLB appearance in close to a month.Teng entered in the fifth inning with one out and a runner on first after the Athletics erased a six-run deficit to tie the game 6-6.T
The inaugural Taiwan Exercise Recovery Technique Open is being held in Taoyuan this weekend, bringing together almost 100 practitioners from Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia, organizers said yesterday.The competition, also referred to as the Taiwan Sports Recovery Championship, is taking place alongside
Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson saved a penalty-kick from Guro Reiten to hold Gotham FC to a scoreless draw at home on Sunday.In other action in the National Women’s Soccer League, the Orlando Pride beat the Washington Spirit 1-0, the Chicago Stars beat Racing Louisville 3-2, and Bay FC defe
Paris Saint-Germain players cannot afford to cruise through the season, as coach Luis Enrique said he expected them to play out of their comfort zone.The PSG coach took Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia off at halftime of their opening game of the new Ligue 1 season, bringing on Mika Godts a
‘D-DAY’: The US would not have threatened to launch ‘the largest financial invasion in history’ if Iran’s military and nuclear power had been destroyed, Tehran said Iran yesterday dismissed Washington’s declaration of a massive economic pressure campaign, saying it disproved US claims to have dismantled Tehran’s military and nuclear capabilities. “Your narrative doesn’t add up: you say that Iran’s military power has been ‘dismantled,’ 100% of its military facto
FLEXIBLE EMPLOYMENT: With gig workers making up about 44% of China’s urban workforce, Zhang Dandan’s comments sparked public outrage The term “flexible employment” has gone viral in China after a prominent economics professor described gig work as a form of “welfare,” drawing widespread public anger and highlighting deep anxieties over job insecurity.Zhang Dandan (張丹丹), a professor of economics and deputy dean at Peking Universit
A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, including one from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party, yesterday headed to Beijing to meet with Chinese officials for the first time since ties between the two Asian rivals deteriorated after Takaichi’s comment on Taiwan angered China.The group
During the Martial Law era, newspapers and magazines were strictly controlled by the government. But from 1985 to 1990 — a period that straddled the lifting of martial law in 1987 — a free monthly expat magazine emerged as one of the first published and edited by foreigners. It was also perhaps the
When we recall the 1990s, we usually identify them as the time of great transitions, from authoritarianism to democracy, and the public’s shift to acknowledging a Taiwanese identity. But another transition occurred, one that we take for granted and hardly notice anymore.The 1980s opened with the mas
Aug. 24 to Aug. 30Three pairs of chopsticks, stuck upright in the ground like incense, have become one of the most curious details in the story of three university graduates who disappeared on Qilai Mountain (奇萊) in 1972.The case remains unsolved today. Despite an extensive two-month search, the t
Taiwan and the South China Sea have long been major issues in US foreign policy, and tensions involving China have kept both in the news in recent months. Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory and asserts sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea, bringing it into confrontation with
對話 Dialogue清清：最近我的朋友一直在分享展覽的照片，看起來每一張都像在拍電影。Qīngqing: Zuìjìn wǒ de péngyǒu yìzhí zài fēnxiǎng zhǎnlǎn de zhàopiàn, kàn qǐlái měi yì zhāng dōu xiàng zài pāi diànyǐng華華：現在很多展覽都很有創意，不只能看，還可以互動、拍照。Huáhua: Xiànzài hěn duō zhǎnlǎn dōu hěn yǒu chuàngyì, bù zhǐ néng kàn, hái kěyǐ hùdòng, pāizhào.清清：難怪大家都說，逛
1. 他找到他追求的志業了嗎？ˇ Has he found his calling?χ Has he found out his calling?註：find out 通常指經探索或觀察而發現某些資訊，例如：to find out the truth, to find out how to do something 等。找到失去的錢包、找到追求的目標之類，一般會用 to find。2. 我擔心得睡不著覺。ˇ I was too worried to go to sleep.χ I was too worried to go to bed.註：to go to bed 是「就寢」、「上床」
| New Taipei City | 25-30 | 60% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 25-30 | 60% | |
| Hsinchu City | 25-30 | 60% | |
| Taipei City | 26-30 | 70% | |
| Miaoli County | 25-30 | 60% | |
| Taoyuan City | 25-30 | 60% | |
| Keelung City | 26-29 | 70% | |
| Yunlin County | 25-28 | 80% |  |
| Taichung City | 25-28 | 70% | |
| Nantou County | 25-28 | 70% | |
| Changhua County | 26-28 | 80% | |
| Chiayi County | 25-27 | 90% |  |
| Chiayi City | 25-27 | 80% | |
| Tainan City | 25-27 | 70% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 26-27 | 80% | |
| Pingtung County | 25-27 | 90% | |
| Yilan County | 25-27 | 70% | |
| Hualien County | 26-28 | 30% | |
| Taitung County | 26-29 | 60% | |
| Kinmen County | 26-30 | 70% | |
| Penghu County | 26-29 | 70% | |
| Lienchiang County | 27-30 | 60% | |
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