Tue, Sep 08, 2026
The air force plans to build 26 more hardened aircraft shelters as the number of F-16Vs stationed along Taiwan’s east coast is expected to reach 120 when the final shipment of 66 jets procured from the US arrives.The incoming jets would be stationed at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung County, augmenting
The Taipei District Court has issued an arrest warrant for an aide of independent Legislator May Chin (高金素梅) after he jumped bail on Sunday.Judicial police had responded late on Sunday after an electronic wrist monitor belonging to Chang Chun-chieh (張俊傑), Chin’s former legislative office director, i
‘SCARED’: The victory of the AfD, labeled a ‘right-wing extremist’ in Saxony-Anhalt, has raised concern among other parties, migrants and minorities German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives yesterday licked their wounds after a crushing state election defeat in the ex-communist east, as the triumphant far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) launched a withering attack against him.AfD national coleader Alice Weidel — basking in the almost
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un put his second naval destroyer into service and called for building a more reliable nuclear deterrent, state media reported yesterday, as the US, South Korea and Japan began a trilateral military exercise he views as a security threat.The ship’s commissioning comes as
PROJECT PLAN: The defense ministry plans to expand production lines, including for warhead bodies and explosives, and introduce semi and fully automated equipment The military is significantly expanding domestic production capacity to improve self-sufficiency in equipment and ammunition during wartime, the Ministry of National Defense’s proposed budget for next year showed.The Armaments Bureau’s Production and Manufacturing Center plans to invest more than NT
Taiwan, which accounts for more than half of the global outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing market, is well-positioned to develop copackaged optics (CPO) and manufacture precision silicon photonics chips, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.Silicon photonics are emerging as a m
The Tourism Administration today said it would focus on guidance and only issue penalties for repeated noncompliance, after a requirement for travel agencies to register trips to China went into effect last week.The agency last week sent a letter to travel agencies saying they would be required to a
The more than 400 anonymous e-cigarette collection spots across Taiwan that opened today have seen little use, with the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) saying it would adjust the program after one month as necessary.Under the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act (菸害防制法), the manufacture, importation
President William Lai (賴清德) today highlighted expanded medical and rehabilitation services and increased support staffing for Taiwan's athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, saying the Ministry of Sports is "making every effort" to support them.Speaking at a flag-presentation ceremony at the Taiw
Taiwan Lottery is to add NT$400 million (US$12.63 million) in prizes to three popular games for a Mid-Autumn Festival promotion, including 70 additional NT$1 million prizes for its Lotto 6/49 game, the company said today.The promotion is to run from Tuesday next week to Oct. 23, with 12 Lotto 6/49 d
Taisun Enterprise Co (泰山企業) today filed a lawsuit against Central Union Oil Corp (CUOC, 中聯油脂) and three other companies seeking NT$1 billion (US$31.56 million) in joint compensation over a food safety scandal involving CUOC-produced oil with excessive levels of the carcinogen benzopyrene (BaP).The T
Healthcare providers along the east coast are working to build out a drone delivery network, with authorities recently holding a live demonstration of a medical drone flight designed to cater to the needs of remote communities.The National Health Insurance Administration’s eastern branch runs a holi
A man was arrested in Taichung early today after allegedly hitting a nurse with his car, making a U-turn and striking her again before fleeing the scene, local authorities said. The nurse later died.The man, surnamed Lin (林), was tracked down and arrested by police, who said they would refer the cas
Two shipments of frozen beef tongues imported from the US were rejected at the border after testing positive for parasites, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today.The affected shipments, imported by Shun Sen Co weighed 179.2kg and 276.8kg respectively, and were ordered either returned to
Prosecutors uncovered 212 cases of illicit financial transactions intended to influence the upcoming November elections, seizing more than NT$900 million (US$28.4 million) in suspected criminal proceeds, the High Prosecutors’ Office said today.To prepare for the Nov. 28 local elections, the office l
Next year's Semicon Taiwan trade show is scheduled to be held on Aug. 18 to 20, about three weeks earlier than its usual September slot, as organizers seek to secure sufficient space across multiple venues for the expanding trade show.SEMI said in a statement on Monday that planning for next year's
TREND: As growing demand for AI computing power is prompting expansion of memory bandwidth, custom memory chips are gaining traction, PieceMakers said PieceMakers Technology Inc (補丁科技) expects to begin generating royalty revenue from its intellectual property next year, as volume production of high-bandwidth custom chips for artificial intelligence (AI) applications nears, the chip designer said yesterday. Revenue contribution from custom chip des
Taiwan’s housing market is showing further signs of cooling, with developers sharply scaling back planned launches for the autumn sales season as tighter credit controls and weakening demand weigh on the sector. Developers are planning 246 projects nationwide in the upcoming fall sales season, down
US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to halt trade with countries that have trade surpluses with the US unless the US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. Trump’s ultimatum came after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that US employers added 162,000 jobs last month, about triple t
Over the past few days, opposition lawmakers have harshly criticized the Cabinet for “showing contempt for the legislature” by spending all NT$500 million (US$15.85 million) of the Executive Yuan’s budget that had previously been frozen by lawmakers for the 2025 fiscal year.The story began in Decemb
With primary and junior-high schools reopening across the nation, many schools have been struggling to recruit enough teachers, even after lowering their standards to university graduates who have no teaching experience.Even where schools have filled vacancies and warded off a pending crisis, they a
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday posted his most convincing win in his injury return at the US Open, downing Tommy Paul in straight sets to line up a quarter-final clash with Ben Shelton, while all three Taiwanese players played in women’s doubles won. Hsieh Su-wei and her Latvian partner
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani is unlikely to pitch again this season, team manager Dave Roberts said on Sunday. The Japanese has sustained multiple injuries, missing four consecutive games this week for the first time since he joined the Dodgers in 2023. Ohtani has not pitched
The Houston Astros on Sunday sent Taiwanese right-hander Teng Kai-wei back to Triple-A after the team’s 3-4 loss against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Teng was initially recalled to the majors on Aug. 21 to help strengthen the Astros’ bullpen. On Sunday, Teng pitched a total of 0.1 innings, in which he
Arsenal on Sunday passed the biggest test of their English Premier League title defense so far by rallying to a 2-1 win against Chelsea. Martin Odegaard struck a 50th-minute winner at the Emirates Stadium after Morgan Rogers had given Chelsea an early lead. Kai Havertz equalized in the first half fo
COMMITMENT: China could view reduced US-Seoul exercises as an opportunity to reassert itself, but the US had reassured Manila of its resolve, the defense chief said China could see recent cuts to US-South Korean military exercises as an opportunity to reassert itself in the Indo-Pacific region, Philippine Secretary of Defense Gilberto Teodoro said yesterday, though he said Washington had assured Manila that its commitments to the Philippines remained unchanged.
When Danish director May el-Toukhy was selected for the top competition at the Venice Film Festival in July, she was the only female filmmaker in a 20-strong field — with a movie “about the invisibility of women.”She joked about the irony at a press conference on Sunday, while pointing out that prog
AMAZON: The cargo aircraft overran the runway and plowed across a road used by warehouse workers and other businesses, killing five people and injuring more US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators yesterday were detailing their plans for determining what caused an Amazon.com Inc cargo jet to barrel off a runway at Miami International Airport, killing at least five people and injuring five others as it struck vehicles and was engulfed in f
On selected weekends, moviegoers settle into reclining deckchairs on Dream Plaza’s rooftop garden in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義). Wearing wireless headphones and surrounded by city lights, they watch everything from romantic favorites to independent films and Hollywood hits.Skyline Film (屋頂電影院 ) ha
Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. Or imagine standing with the pioneering physicists in 1942 before they triggered the first self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction beneath a Chicago stadium.These were two of the analogies use
Another doleful set of demographic announcements this month from the National Development Council (NDC), with the number of young people shriveling as the proportion of old people grows. “Taiwan’s 18-year-olds, the typical age for entering college, will fall below 200,000 for the first time in the 2
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
對話 Dialogue清清：華華，你覺得你最好的朋友是誰？Qīngqing: Huáhua, nǐ juéde nǐ zuìhǎo de péngyou shì shéi?華華：坦白說，以前我應該會說是你，但現在可能是AI。Huáhua: Tǎnbái shuō, yǐqián wǒ yīnggāi huì shuō shì nǐ, dàn xiànzài kěnéng shì AI.清清：謝謝你喔！其實我可以理解啦！你也每天都用AI嗎？Qīngqing: Xièxie nǐ o! Qíshí wǒ kěyǐ lǐjiě la! Nǐ yě měitiān dōu yòng AI ma?華華
1. 我忽然想起了一首以前聽過的歌。ˇ Suddenly I recalled a song I once heard.ˇ Suddenly I was reminded of a song I once heard.χ Suddenly I reminded a song I once heard.註：remind 是「提醒」、「使想起」；recall 含有「回想起」、「想起」的意思。前者指「某人／某事提醒某人某件事情」，後者為「某人主動地想起了某事或某人」，試比較下列句子：I reminded him that there would be a lecture in the evening
| New Taipei City | 23-26 | 20% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 23-27 | 10% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 23-27 | 10% | |
| Taipei City | 23-27 | 40% |  |
| Miaoli County | 21-26 | 10% | |
| Taoyuan City | 23-26 | 20% | |
| Keelung City | 24-26 | 50% | |
| Yunlin County | 23-27 | 0% | |
| Taichung City | 23-28 | 0% | |
| Nantou County | 22-27 | 0% | |
| Changhua County | 23-28 | 0% | |
| Chiayi County | 23-28 | 0% | |
| Chiayi City | 23-27 | 0% | |
| Tainan City | 25-29 | 0% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 25-29 | 0% | |
| Pingtung County | 24-27 | 10% | |
| Yilan County | 22-27 | 20% | |
| Hualien County | 24-27 | 20% | |
| Taitung County | 24-26 | 20% | |
| Kinmen County | 25-27 | 20% | |
| Penghu County | 26-27 | 0% | |
| Lienchiang County | 25-26 | 60% | |
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