Households in areas where flooding exceeded 50cm due to Typhoon Gaemi are to receive NT$20,000 each in planned relief funding, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday.Lai announced the subsidies after being briefed about the storm situation during an inspection of severely affected areas in Kaohs
SEVEN-YEAR TERM: Three other defendants were found guilty and sentenced in the trial over legislative office salaries, while a fourth was found not guilty of all charges
Anne Kao (高虹安) yesterday was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison and suspended as Hsinchu mayor after the Taipei District Court found her guilty of contravening the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例) and the Criminal Code.The court also deprived Kao of her civil rights for four years and sh
The Taichung District Court yesterday handed a combined sentence of eight years and four months to Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) for corruption and forgery.Yen contravened Article 5 of the Anti-Corruption Act (貪汙治罪條例) by making unlawful profit or withholding public f
Two rival gang leaders signed a truce to end armed conflict in Haiti’s largest shantytown, a community leader said on Thursday.Haiti has long been rocked by gang violence, but conditions sharply worsened at the end of February when armed groups launched attacks in Port-au-Prince to overthrow then-Ha
Pakistan is trying to stay relevant through “terrorism” and “proxy war,” but its “unholy plans” would never succeed, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.The South Asian neighbors share an uneasy relationship and India has, for decades, accused Pakistan of backing Islamist militants fi
SEA SEARCH: Nine crew members of a cargo ship had taken to the water after the vessel sunk off the southern coast, with a rescue effort under way, officials said
The strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years yesterday killed three people and flooded parts of the nation’s second-biggest city, while rescuers were searching for nine sailors after their cargo ship sank in the storm.Typhoon Gaemi transformed streets in Kaohsiung into rivers, with some househ
This year’s Han Kuang military exercises have been cut short as troops were mobilized to assist in disaster relief operations in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday.Multiple drills scheduled from noon yesterday to today — when the five-day exercises were o
DETERrING CHINA: The Pentagon has made strides in developing a new concept of operations to address challenges in the western Pacific region, Ely Ratner said
Taiwan and the US are improving resilience and innovating operational concepts to maintain the capability to deter Beijing from attacking across the Taiwan Strait, a senior US defense official said on Wednesday.Keeping Taiwan-US deterrence capabilities strong through improving bilateral cooperation
A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil yesterday sank off Manila, authorities said, as they raced to contain a spill.One crew member of the MT Terra Nova was killed when the tanker capsized in Manila Bay, nearly 7km off Limay municipality in Bataan province, a
Israeli forces retrieved the remains of five Israelis who were killed during Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 last year, the military said yesterday.The bodies of Maya Goren, as well as soldiers Tomer Ahimas and Kiril Brodski, along with Ravid Aryeh Katz and Oren Goldin — military reservists — had been retur
CASUALTY: A 70-year-old woman was killed by a falling tree in Kaohsiung as the premier warned all government agencies to remain on high alert for the next 24 hours
Schools and offices nationwide are to be closed for a second day today as Typhoon Gaemi crosses over the nation, bringing torrential rain and whipping winds.Gaemi was forecast to make landfall late last night. From Tuesday night, its outer band brought substantial rainfall and strong winds to the na
Relentless rain yesterday drenched the northern Philippines, triggering floods in Manila and deadly landslides that have killed at least five people as Typhoon Gaemi intensified the seasonal monsoon.Rescuers were deployed across the capital to help evacuate people from low-lying homes after downpour
SAFETY FIRST: All food imports from five prefectures near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant would undergo batch-by-batch inspections, the FDA said
Taiwan plans to allow all imports of Japanese food and agricultural products from areas near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday evening.The FDA said in a statement that it is planning to amend regulations to allow mushrooms, th
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has selected three locations in the Czech Republic, Japan and the US to set up overseas manufacturing parks in a bid to reduce overseas investment barriers facing Taiwanese firms, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said in an interview on Monday. President W
A roaring crowd of battleground state voters on Tuesday greeted US Vice President Kamala Harris as she opened her public case against former US president Donald Trump by declaring that November’s election would be “a choice between freedom and chaos.”“In this campaign, I promise you, I will proudly
DISRUPTIONS: The high-speed rail is to operate as normal, while several airlines either canceled flights or announced early departures or late arrivals
Schools and offices in 15 cities and counties are to be closed today due to Typhoon Gaemi, local governments announced last night. The 15 are: Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Tainan, Keelung, Hsinchu and Kaohsiung, as well as Yilan, Hualien, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Chiayi, Pingtung, Penghu and Lienchiang
President William Lai (賴清德) and former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Monday appealed for more attention to be paid to freedom of religion in Asia at a religious freedom event in Tokyo, citing China as being the chief culprit.Lai, who spoke via a prerecorded video, and Pompeo gave separate spe
Japan will continue to work with the US for peace in the Taiwan Strait regardless of who is in the White House after the November presidential election, Japan’s top government spokesperson said in an exclusive interview.The comments come after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that
The government has a four-year plan to save up to 2.5 gigawatts, or 15 billion kilowatt-hours of power by subsidizing the replacement of aging industrial equipment, and increasing household and commercial energy-saving efforts, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said.In an interview with th
CLAPBACK: Beijing said the US was distorting its arctic policy, while Russia said the collaboration with China contributes to regional stability
The US Department of Defense on Monday warned of increasing collaboration between Russia and China in the arctic, as climate change opens the region to greater competition over maritime routes and resources.“We’ve seen growing cooperation between the PRC and Russia in the arctic commercially, with t