BALANCE: The proposed regulations would entitle litigants to oppose motions to broadcast a trial and to obscure or anonymize videos to protect people’s privacy
The Judicial Yuan yesterday unveiled proposed rules to govern the broadcast of court proceedings amid a partisan debate over the transparency and autonomy of the justice system.Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers in June passed amendments to the Court Organizati
Enhancing bilateral cooperation is crucial for Taiwan and Paraguay to address the threat of authoritarian expansionism amid rapid global change, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday at an event welcoming a delegation of lawmakers headed by Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies President Raul Latorre.
CHINA THREAT: John Noh said Taiwan needs to spend more and acquire the asymmetric capabilities that would be most relevant in an invasion scenario
The nominee to be the Pentagon’s senior official for the Indo-Pacific region on Tuesday said that he strongly supported US President Donald Trump in saying that Taiwan should spend up to 10 percent of its GDP on defense.Taiwan’s proposed defense budget for next year is to be 3.32 percent of GDP, and
US President Donald Trump yesterday called for jailing Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest US city.Trump’s call to imprison the two prominent opponents of his immigration crackdown comes
Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water.The laureates worked to create molecular constru
COVETED PRIZE: The US president would be a peace prize laureate should he persuade Xi Jinping to abandon military aggression against Taiwan, William Lai said
US President Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize should he be able to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to abandon the use of force against Taiwan, President William Lai (賴清德) told a conservative US radio show and podcast in an interview.The US is Taiwan’s most important internat
The first satellite of Formosat-8, Taiwan’s first domestically developed optical remote sensing satellite constellation, left the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) headquarters in Hsinchu yesterday ahead of its launch in the US next month.The Formosat-8 system is to replace Formosat-5, the nation’s first s
The US has signaled it is willing to restart talks on Taiwan’s long-sought acquisition of MH-60R anti-submarine helicopters, a senior government official said yesterday.The military operates 17 S-70C anti-submarine helicopters, down from 21 due to four major flight safety incidents, people familiar
CEASEFIRE? Peace talks between Israel and Hamas continued yesterday in an Egyptian resort, with US representatives slated to join the discussions today
Thousands of people yesterday converged in southern Israel to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war, while Israel and Hamas pressed on with indirect peace talks in Egypt.The main memorial in Tel Aviv, planned for later in t
Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honored “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circ
CHINESE INFILTRATION: Medical logistics is a lifeline during wartime and the reported CCP links of a major logistics company present a national security threat, an expert said
The government would bolster its security check system to prevent China from infiltrating the nation’s medical cold chain, a national security official said yesterday.The official, who wished to stay anonymous, made the remarks after the Chinese-language magazine Mirror Media (鏡周刊) reported that Pha
COGNITIVE WARFARE: Chinese fishing boats transmitting fake identification signals are meant to test Taiwan’s responses to different kinds of perceived incursions, a report said
Chinese vessels are transmitting fake signals in Taiwan’s waters as a form of cognitive warfare, testing Taipei’s responses to various types of incursions, a report by the Institute for the Study of War said on Friday.Several Chinese fishing vessels transmitted fake automatic identification system (
The leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea yesterday signed a major bilateral defense treaty that China believes targets it unfairly.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinea counterpart, James Marape, described the agreement as a mutual defense treaty that would enable
A US-Japanese trio yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by identifying its “security guards,” the Nobel jury said.The discoveries by Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell of the US and Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi have been decisive for understan
New French prime minister Sebastien Lecornu yesterday resigned after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock.Lecornu stepped down just 14 hours after naming his government and
POLITICAL AGENDA: Beijing’s cross-strait Mid-Autumn Festival events are part of a ‘cultural united front’ aimed at promoting unification with Taiwan, academics said
Local authorities in China have been inviting Taiwanese to participate in cross-strait Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations centered around ideals of “family and nation,” a move Taiwanese academics said politicizes the holiday to promote the idea of “one family” across the Taiwan Strait.Sources said tha
RECOVERY: The CEOC said that 98 percent of roads were expected to be cleared yesterday, and four schools in the township are to reopen tomorrow
Cleanup work in Hualien County’s Guangfu Township (光復) following flooding has made significant progress, the Central Emergency Operations Center (CEOC) said. The flooding was triggered by heavy rainfall brought by Super Typhoon Ragasa that caused a barrier lake in the Mataian River (馬太鞍溪) to burst o
Czech billionaire and former prime minister Andrej Babis vowed loyalty to Europe as he met with the Czech president to start talks on a new government yesterday, a day after his movement topped a national vote. Final results showed that Babis’ ANO (Yes) party won 34.5 percent of the vote on Friday a
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid on Saturday against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in a show of growing international anger over the two-year-old war. The protests in almost every major Spanish city had been planned for weeks, while the demonstration in Rome
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