The Taiwan Foundation for Disaster Relief on Thursday said that a special account set up on July 21 to collect donations for Typhoon Danas relief closed on Wednesday, having received NT$539 million (US$17.6 million).The foundation said the funds would support disaster relief, emergency medical servi
SPECIAL BUDGETS: The funds could support the production of the planned indigenous defense submarines and the development of uncrewed surface vehicles, an expert said
The Cabinet has proposed special defense budgets totaling NT$117.6 billion (US$3.85 billion) to boost military spending beyond the limits of the general budget, amid expectations that US President Donald Trump’s administration would approve additional arms sales to Taiwan next year, experts said on
Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Xavier Chang (張惇涵) would be appointed secretary-general of the Executive Yuan, replacing Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫), who is to become minister of economic affairs, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.A broader Cabinet reshuffle is expected to follow
The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) has fined Meta Platforms Inc NT$2.5 million (US$81,739) for its inadequate response to an order requiring the removal of false advertisements on Facebook.The penalty was imposed after Meta failed to remove false advertisements on Facebook within 24 hours of bei
CONTROVERSY: While a committee found no evidence of sexual discrimination, Yeh could have contravened digital privacy and government information laws
Deputy Minister of Education Benson Yeh (葉丙成) yesterday announced his resignation, hours after the ministry’s Gender Equity Education Committee acquitted him of sexual discrimination allegations.Yeh became embroiled in controversy after commenting on a sexual harassment investigation at National Tai
GENDER DIFFERENCES: The team found that male patients were more affected by external carcinogens, while women were vulnerable to more intrinsic factors
Taiwanese researchers have identified key traits of patients prone to recurrent lung adenocarcinoma, as well as possible new strategies to detect and treat it, as part of an Academia Sinica-led project in collaboration with the US Cancer Moonshot initiative.The study by Chen Yu-ju (陳玉如), a distingui
Prosecutors yesterday filed charges of financial fraud against proprietors and executives of cryptocurrency trading platforms BitShine and CoinW over alleged collusion with organized crime on money laundering and fraudulent investment schemes.BitShine operated 45 offices in Taiwan for trading crypto
The Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office last week indicted 15 suspects on suspicion of illegally dumping more than 1,000 tonnes of septic sewage and waste oil into the sewer system in Taichung, with five confiscated sewage trucks sold at auction for NT$8.14 million (US$266,144).The office last yea
Authorities said they have ascertained the identity of a man they believe shot and killed a wanted man in Kaohsiung’s Zuoying District (左營) yesterday morning over a debt dispute.According to local police, the deceased, identified as a 51-year-old man surnamed Lo (羅), was wanted by the authorities fo
Death during transport would be included in compulsory swine death insurance from Nov. 1 to ensure the safety of domestically produced pork, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday, adding that premiums and benefits would not change.Compulsory swine death insurance regulations came into force on
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, center right, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo, second left, and American Institute in Taiwan Kaohsiung branch head Neil Gibson, left, view a drone at the Meet Greater South start-up festival at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center yesterday. The festival continues toda
Del-Kun Dave Chen, also known as Iron Age, from Taiwan performs during the Dark Horses qualifying round of the Air Guitar World Championship in Oulu, Finland, on Thursday. The annual event was held on Thursday and yesterday.
Canada and Taiwan signed a memorandum of understanding this month on sharing data regarding illegal fishing vessels, which could help the country track covert Chinese maritime activity, Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail reported yesterday. The Dark Vessel Detection (DVD) technology uses satellit
Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Xavier Chang (張惇涵) is to be appointed secretary-general of the Executive Yuan to replace Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫), who is to be appointed minister of economic affairs, people familiar with the matter said today.A mass Cabinet reshuffle is expected to be imple
The Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws Committee is set to review a proposed amendment to tighten the requirements for a court to order a suspect detained. Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), and fellow TPP legislators Chang Chi-kai (張啓楷) and Chen Gau-tzu (陳昭姿), ea
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Tainan in southern Taiwan at 2:06pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.The hypocenter was 42km east-northeast of Tainan City Hall at a depth of 15.1km, CWA data showed.There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake.The intensity
No procedures regarding any transfer of diplomatic officials have been initiated, a source said today in response to media reports claiming that Representative to the US Alexander Yui (俞大㵢) is to be transferred.Yui is to be replaced by National Security Council (NSC) Deputy Secretary-General Hsu Szu
The interests of Taiwan and its companies are the government's top priority, a Cabinet source said today in response to reports that Washington may seek a stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) in exchange for CHIPS and Science Act funding.Reuters reported on Wednesday that US Secreta
A man was shot and killed this morning in Kaohsiung’s Zuoying District (左營) and the culprit remains on the loose who police continue to search for and was believed to have been driving a white BMW 1 Series, police said. The incident was reported at approximately 6:51am on Wenxue Road, where the vict
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