Mon, Apr 21, 2025
NEW TECHNOLOGY: AI could enable the CWA to provide more precise weather forecasts, but it does not currently have sufficient computing power, an official said The Executive Yuan has approved the Central Weather Administration’s (CWA) plan to upgrade a weather observation station in Hsinchu County into the Hsinchu Meteorology Science Park, which would include a server room for a supercomputer to facilitate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for weathe
Hsu Shang-hsien (徐尚賢), the leader of a recall vote campaign organization targeting two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers in Kaohsiung, has been detained following questioning over alleged forgery and contraventions of the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法).The Kaohsiung District Court
The US Supreme Court, in a dramatic nighttime intervention on Saturday, blocked US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process. The emergency ruling said that two of the most conservative justices on the nine-member panel had dissent
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday said Russian forces were continuing their shelling and assaults along the front line despite Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing a surprise but brief Easter truce. The 30-hour truce would be the most significant pause in the fighting througho
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE TRAINING: The ministry said 87.5 percent of the apprehended Chinese agents were reported by service members they tried to lure into becoming spies Taiwanese organized crime, illegal money lenders, temples and civic groups are complicit in Beijing’s infiltration of the armed forces, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said in a report yesterday.Retired service members who had been turned to Beijing’s cause mainly relied on those channels to
ASSISTANCE: The plan includes NT$70 billion for loan subsidies, market diversification and job stability, and NT$18 billion for the agricultural sector, the Cabinet said The eligibility criteria for the Executive Yuan’s NT$88 billion (US$2.7 billion) support package have been broadened at the direction of Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰), with applicants required only to state how their businesses have been affected by the US’ “reciprocal” tariffs.Previous eligibility req
Tomorrow’s opposition leaders meeting with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) would be livestreamed for the public, Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said today as he called on President William Lai (賴清德) to join the meeting.Huang and Chu would meet tomo
Kinmen County residents took part in the annual Bee Worship Ritual yesterday, which involves trying to snatch eggs while avoiding swinging palanquins, on the birthday of the revered sea goddess Mazu in local folk religion.The ritual, recognized as an intangible part of the offshore county's cultural
Taiwan would strengthen bilateral trade and economic cooperation with the US in response to tariffs, President William Lai (賴清德) said today during a meeting with the Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce North America (TCCNA) at the Presidential Office.He praised the organization as playing a vital role in
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is eroding Taiwan’s democracy, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said today, ahead of a meeting tomorrow with Taiwan People's Party Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) to discuss how to “return democracy to Taiwan.”In addition to the domestic p
Taiwan would welcome the return of Honduras as a diplomatic ally if the next president of that country decides to make such a move, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said today“We would welcome Honduras if they want to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after their elections,” Lin sai
Taiwan and the US have begun trade negotiations over tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump earlier this month, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said in an interview this morning before reporting to the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.The Taipei
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智伃) and Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday evening last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said today.The three K
Scaffolding on the exterior of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) collapsed today, striking one vehicle but causing no injuries.The hospital said the scaffolding was scheduled to be removed yesterday, but the removal was postponed due to poor weather.The collapse may have been due to heavy r
Partly cloudy to sunny skies will prevail across Taiwan today, although some scattered afternoon showers are likely in mountainous areas, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA).Daytime temperatures are expected to reach 31-34°C in the western half of Taiwan today, 29-30°C in the easte
START-UP ECOSYSTEM: Amendments to the act tighten rules for major offshore investments, while assuring start-up funding and raising tax deduction incentives The legislature’s passage last week of amendments to the Act for Industrial Innovation (產業創新條例) would help retain crucial technologies at home and promote the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and carbon-reduction technologies, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Friday.Under the
GOING WEST: MSI’s domestic rivals are pursuing similar North American strategies, opening factories in Mexico or expanding capacity in the US, the company said Micro-Star International Co’s (MSI, 微星科技) US unit has acquired a commercial property in California for US$65.2 million as the computer hardware supplier considers operational needs, it said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday last week.The company early last month told an earnings conference that it w
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) expects steady growth this year despite global economic uncertainty due to continued momentum from tech trends such as 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.In the company’s annual shareholders’ report rel
Sung Chien-liang (宋建樑), the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) efforts to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lee Kun-cheng (李坤城), caused a national outrage and drew diplomatic condemnation on Tuesday after he arrived at the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office
US President Trump weighed into the state of America’s semiconductor manufacturing when he declared, “They [Taiwan] stole it from us. They took it from us, and I don’t blame them. I give them credit.” At a prior White House event President Trump hosted TSMC chairman C.C. Wei (魏哲家), head of the world
A series of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-led recall efforts have come under fire following revelations of widespread forgery in the signature-gathering process. The most staggering case involves 1,923 forged signatures attributed to deceased people. On average, each campaign backed by the KMT con
snooker: Lei Peifan’s upset and Zhao Xintong’s return have raised interest that a Chinese player could make a major breakthrough at this year’s World Championship Kyren Wilson became the latest player to fall foul of snooker’s Crucible curse after a shock defeat on the opening day of the World Snooker Championship at the hands of Chinese sensation Lei Peifan — underlining the belief many have that this could finally be the year China crowns its first champion
Taiwanese artistic gymnast Tang Chia-hung won silver in the men’s horizontal bar at this year’s Doha World Cup yesterday, his first medal of the season.Tang earned a total of 14.400 points in the final, with a 6.5 difficulty score and a 7.900 execution score — placing him just behind Kazakhstan’s Mi
global following: ‘Some of the local fans were quite surprised, probably wondering what 100 Spaniards were doing there,’ a Harborough Town fan from Madrid said Soccer tourism is usually seen at English Premier League stadiums such as Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates, so fans of Harborough Town, who compete in the seventh tier of the English soccer pyramid, were stunned when 100 Spaniards arrived at Bowden Park to watch them take on St Ives Town.The S
The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani on Saturday announced that he and his wife, Mamiko, have welcomed their first child.“I am so grateful to my loving wife who gave birth to our healthy and beautiful daughter,” Ohtani wrote on Instagram. “To my daughter, thank you for making us very nerv
DEMONSTRATIONS: A protester said although she would normally sit back and wait for the next election, she cannot do it this time, adding that ‘we’ve lost too much already’ Thousands of protesters rallied on Saturday in New York, Washington and other cities across the US for a second major round of demonstrations against US President Donald Trump and his hard-line policies. In New York, people gathered outside the city’s main library carrying signs targeting the US pre
‘FIGHT BACK’: The British Supreme Court’s decision last week on the legal definition of a ‘woman’ is expected to have far-reaching consequences Thousands of people on Saturday rallied in London and Edinburgh in support of trans rights, after a landmark UK court ruling on the definition of a “woman.” The British Supreme Court on Wednesday last week ruled that the legal definition of a “woman” is based on a person’s sex at birth, with potenti
Young women standing idly around a park in Tokyo’s west suggest that a giant statue of Godzilla is not the only attraction for a record number of foreign tourists. Their faces lit by the cold glow of their phones, the women lining Okubo Park are evidence that sex tourism has developed as a dark flip
It is one of the more remarkable facts of Taiwan history that it was never occupied or claimed by any of the numerous kingdoms of southern China — Han or otherwise — that lay just across the water from it. None of their brilliant ministers ever discovered that Taiwan was a “core interest” of the sta
April 21 to April 27Hsieh Er’s (謝娥) political fortunes were rising fast after she got out of jail and joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in December 1945. Not only did she hold key positions in various committees, she was elected the only woman on the Taipei City Council and head
Mongolian influencer Anudari Daarya looks effortlessly glamorous and carefree in her social media posts — but the classically trained pianist’s road to acceptance as a transgender artist has been anything but easy.She is one of a growing number of Mongolian LGBTQ youth challenging stereotypes and fi
Dos & Don’ts — 想想看，這句話英語該怎麼說？1. 能做的事都做了。ˇ All that could be done has been done.χ All that could be done have been done.註︰all 指事情或抽象概念時當作單數。例如： All is well that ends well. （結果好就是好。） All is over with him. （他已經沒希望了。） That’s all for today. （今天到此為止。）all 指人時應當作複數。例如： All of us are interested in his pro
Continued from yesterday（延續自昨日）https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/langThough you probably don’t know it __3__ you’re a movie buff, the Dutch angle has been used by famous filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Tim Burton. For example, in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, there’s an intense
A ‘Dutch angle’ is a classic camera technique that has been used in filmmaking since the 1920s, when it was introduced to Hollywood by German Expressionists. Why is it called the Dutch angle if it’s actually German? In fact, it has no __1__ to the Netherlands. The term “Dutch” is widely believed to
In 2020, a labor attache from the Philippines in Taipei sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding that a Filipina worker accused of “cyber-libel” against then-president Rodrigo Duterte be deported. A press release from the Philippines office from the attache accused the woman of “using several social media accounts” to “discredit and malign the President and destabilize the government.” The attache also claimed that the woman had broken Taiwan’s laws. The government responded that she had broken no laws, and that all foreign workers were treated the same as Taiwan citizens and that “their rights are protected, including freedom of speech.” Last week the government announced that the National Immigration Agency (NIA) would revoke the spouse-based residence permit of social media influencer Liu Zhenya (劉振亞), a national of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), who is married to a local. This became a major news story, even making the international media. The NIA investigated reports that Liu advocated annexing Taiwan to the PRC through military force in videos posted on social media, including Douyin (where she has 400,000 followers), YouTube and TikTok. On all three, her account name is Yaya in Taiwan (亞亞在台灣). The NIA press release said that Liu’s residence permit will be revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the Measures for the Permission of Family-based Residence, Long-term Residence and Settlement of People from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area (大陸地區人民在台灣地區依親居留長期居留或定居許可辦法). The NIA said that her calls for military force against the people of Taiwan violate the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例). Liu thus violated specific rules that govern PRC citizens. She will be barred from re-applying for residence within the next five years. The government is giving her time on humanitarian grounds to arrange her family
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and restaurants all over Taipei and Taoyuan. The major Shanghai restaurants in Taipei all ordered from him, and the owners were quite fond of the honest, no-nonsense and hard-working Yang. In 1963, the couple bought their own shop front, a one-story red brick structure on Xinyi Road (信義路) by Yongkang Street (永康街). Unfortunately, the traditional oil industry took a major hit around 1972 due to a health scare and the advent of mass-produced “salad oil.” With sales faltering, Yang’s friends suggested that he switch to selling Shanxi specialties such as knife-sliced noodles. However, Tang Yung-chang (唐永昌), owner of Shanghai restaurant Fuxingyuan (復興園), recommended the more delicate, varied Shanghai-style dim sum instead, even setting him up with one of his former dim sum chefs Lu Chi-chung (魯紀忠). In 1972, Yang set up three tables in one-half of his oil shop, and Lu got to work. Business was lousy at first, but Yang persisted, thinking that he had nothing to lose — at that time, he never expected Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) to become a global empire. ESCAPING WAR Several books provide details on Yang’s early life, including Huang Hung-hu’s (黃鴻湖) Exemplary Din Tai Fung (典範鼎泰豐), Lin Ching-yi’s (林靜宜) Din Tai Fung: Warmth in Perfection (有溫度的完美)
| New Taipei City | 24-27 | 10% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 22-24 | 10% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 22-24 | 10% | |
| Taipei City | 24-28 | 10% | |
| Miaoli County | 22-25 | 10% | |
| Taoyuan City | 23-27 | 10% | |
| Keelung City | 22-25 | 20% | |
| Yunlin County | 24-27 | 10% | |
| Taichung City | 24-26 | 10% | |
| Nantou County | 24-27 | 10% | |
| Changhua County | 23-25 | 10% | |
| Chiayi County | 24-27 | 10% |  |
| Chiayi City | 25-28 | 10% | |
| Tainan City | 25-27 | 10% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 26-28 | 10% | |
| Pingtung County | 27-30 | 10% |  |
| Yilan County | 22-24 | 20% | |
| Hualien County | 23-25 | 30% |  |
| Taitung County | 24-26 | 20% | |
| Kinmen County | 21-25 | 10% | |
| Penghu County | 21-24 | 10% | |
| Lienchiang County | 18-21 | 10% | |
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