The National Security Bureau (NSB) yesterday said that it has identified at least eight methods by which Chinese vessels intrude into restricted waters near Kinmen County, adding that such activities have made monitoring the area more difficult.Bureau Director-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) made the re
NEW FRONTIER: Aside from leveraging its chip expertise, Taiwan should cultivate local talent and boost partnerships with developed countries
Taiwan has an “absolute advantage” in semiconductors that it should leverage to build its own quantum computing ecosystem and cultivate local talent, an Academia Sinica fellow said on Tuesday.Developing a homegrown quantum computer would stimulate advances in related hardware and control software, s
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of complicity in Beijing’s campaign to subvert the nation, a day after incoming KMT vice chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen (蕭旭岑) met with high-ranking communist officials in Tianjin, China.Hsiao, who also heads the Ma
The hospitality sector and ports could soon apply to hire migrant workers, provided they increase the monthly salary of their lowest-paid domestic workers by NT$2,000 (US$65.30) for every foreign worker hired, according to new migrant worker policies to be finalized at a Cabinet meeting today.The 50
POTENTIAL FRAUD: Documents for the disposal of dead pigs were tampered with, the Taichung deputy mayor said, adding that evidence was forwarded to prosecutors
The gene sequencing results of Taiwan’s first cases of African swine fever (ASF), which could help determine the virus’ source, would be released tomorrow at the earliest, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.The cases were publicly confirmed on Wednesday last week following an outbreak at a p
SOME BIG REDUCTIONS: Railway construction projects would be affected by the amendments, with TRC getting NT$2.95 billion less for train maintenance
Subsidies allocated to the six special municipalities for the construction of MRT systems would be reduced by NT$30.85 billion (US$1.01 billion) next year following the passage of amendments earlier this year, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday.The amendments to the Act
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted 12 people, including an airport security officer, on suspicion of smuggling more than 9,000 heated tobacco products into Taiwan.A woman surnamed Yang (楊), 40, along with her mother and nine other suspected, allegedly bribed Aviation Police
The number of centenarians in Taiwan hit a record 5,749 as of Aug. 29, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday as the nation celebrated the Double Ninth Festival.The festival, also known as the Chongyang Festival or Senior Citizens’ Day, falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month and
Taiwanese author Terao Tetsuya (寺尾哲也) and translator Lin King (金翎) are to showcase their work at the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA).King, the English translator of Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊?子) Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), is to speak at two forums at the festival on Saturd
Hualien County authorities yesterday reopened a section of the Central Cross-Island Highway, known as Provincial Highway No. 8, between Taroko National Park and Tiansiang (天祥) following the controlled demolition to partially drain a barrier lake.Vehicle traffic can now access the section, closed sin
ASTRONOMYComet to be visible todayComet Lemmon, believed to be the brightest comet of the year, is expected to reach its peak brightness today, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said. The comet is gradually approaching the sun and brightening, with its luminosity forecast to peak today before fading ra
Premier Cho Jung-tai, center, and Minister of Justice Cheng Ming-chien, fourth left, pose alongside other government officials and international participants at the opening ceremony of the Taiwan-Western Asia & Africa Forum on Regional Security and Transnational Crime in Taipei yesterday. More than
Democratic Progressive Party Taichung City Councilors hold placards at a news conference at the city council yesterday. They accused Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen and her administration of doing a poor job of clarifying the African swine fever outbreak in the city since last week, as city officials ha
Residents of Biantou Village in Changhua County’s Sihu Township form a “thousand-year-old team” to say thank you and wave goodbye to military personnel as they prepared to leave the community yesterday. The army’s ground forces are holding an exercise in Chiayi and Changhua counties from Saturday la
"Comet Lemmon," believed to be the brightest comet of the year, is expected to reach its peak brightness tomorrow, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said today.In a news release, the museum said the comet is gradually approaching the sun and brightening, with its luminosity forecast to peak tomorrow be
Authorities suspect that triplicate forms documenting the disposal of dead pigs were tampered with, leading to discrepancies in reported figures as Taiwan responds to its first confirmed case of African swine fever, the Taichung City Government said today. Evidence was sent to prosecutors for inves
About 17 percent of people 60 or over in Taipei live in three-generation households, 5.8 percentage points lower than five years ago, data from the Taipei Department of Budget, Accounting and Statistics showed today.The department today released the results of its survey conducted every five years o
The public has been advised not to enter the downstream riverbed area of Hualien County’s Liwu River (立霧溪), after water levels rose due to the erosion of a barrier lake dam further upstream.The overflow channel near Swallow Grotto (燕子口) in Taroko National Park has widened, increasing water flow and
The hospitality sector and ports could soon apply to hire migrant workers, provided they increase the monthly salary of their lowest-paid domestic workers by NT$2,000 (US$65.46) for every foreign worker hired, according to new migrant worker policies to be finalized at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting.The
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