The percentage of students accepted under the “Multi-Star” university entrance program hit a record high this year, although the number of unfilled spots also reached a five-year high.The Multi-Star program, which allows students to be admitted to universities through a recommendation from their hig
About 77 percent of Americans view Taiwan favorably, while China is still considered the US’ greatest foe, a Gallup poll released on Monday showed.Taiwan ranked sixth in favorability behind only Canada, Japan, the UK, Germany and France.Asked who is the US’ “greatest enemy today,” 41 percent said Ch
CHINA ANGERED: Video footage of the digital affairs minister was also screened in 2021 at the conference, which is one of US President Joe Biden’s initiatives
Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang (唐鳳) yesterday delivered an unannounced video message at a US-backed democracy summit in Seoul.Tang told the third Summit for Democracy that Taiwan has suffered disproportionately from concerted cyberattacks and that the nation was willing and able to work wit
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION: Taiwanese should be proud of the outcome of the projects, which have helped thousands of Ukrainians, Tomas Kopecny said
Cooperation between Taiwan and the Czech Republic over the past few months has provided more than 130,000 Ukrainians with clean drinking water and more than 100,000 with heating, Czech Governmental Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine Tomas Kopecny said yesterday.Kopecny arrived in Taiwan yesterd
The Legislative Yuan yesterday inaugurated a parliamentary friendship group with the Czech Republic and Austria, and announced that the National Palace Museum might exhibit in the Czech Republic next year.The Republic of China-Czech and Austrian Parliamentary Amity Association was initiated by Chine
Eswatini Prime Minister Russell Dlamini yesterday arrived in Taiwan to look for investors and discuss the details of a fuel storage facility Taiwan is helping to build in the African kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.“Our trip is basically to strengthen the long-existing relationship bet
A decade after the 2014 Sunflower movement, the young people who participated in the student-led demonstration have grown up, but many still carry the memories of what happened during the nearly 23-day occupation of Taiwan’s legislative chamber.On March 18, 2014, hundreds of students and activists s
SETBACK: The agency blamed global inflation and difficulties in recruiting a contractor for its downsizing of the project, which would be delayed until 2028
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) yesterday confirmed that the length of an undersea cable it plans to build off southern Taiwan would be reduced from 800km to 200km due to a funding shortfall caused by inflation, adding that decreasing the project’s scale would cut earthquake and tsunami war
CONFUSION: A meeting in the legislature descended into disorder after its chair was called unfit, because she had until recently been a board member of CWLF
The Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday apologized and announced plans to improve the nation’s adoption system after a one-year-old boy in foster care died after allegedly being abused by his caregiver.In remarks to the legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee, Minister
More than 25,000 people have endorsed a proposal calling for a blanket death penalty for child abusers, after a one-year-old boy died allegedly from abuse while in foster care.The proposal, posted by a person called Lu I-shan (呂易珊) on the government-administered Public Policy Online Participation Ne
Members of the legislature’s Internal Administration Committee yesterday approved a motion to set up a task force to look into the Cabinet’s undertaking of the planned electronic identification card (eID) system and to inquire about possible misconduct by government officials.Introduced by the Minis
Taipei residents at high risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) are to be eligible for a free screening test and a NT$200 cash gift this year, the Taipei Department of Health said yesterday, as it announced a drop in the incidence rate of the disease.Taipei Disease Control Division head Chang Hui-mei
Taiwan had 13,706 convenience stores — one per 1,703 people — as of the end of last year, Ministry of Economic Affairs data showed.Based on the country’s population of 23.34 million, Taiwan’s store density exceeded that of Japan (one per 2,220 people), but was lower than South Korea’s (one per 897 p
The nation’s top six nighttime economy hot spots are in New Taipei City, with Yonghe District (永和) at No. 1, followed by Banciao (板橋), Lujhou (蘆洲), Sanchong (三重), Jhonghe (中和) and Sinjhuang (新莊) districts, Ministry of the Interior data show.Telecommunications and demographic data show that the numbe
The Rakuten Girls, cheerleaders for Taiwanese professional baseball team the Rakuten Monkeys, pose for a photograph at a spring training news conference in Taipei yesterday. The team announced that Lan Ching-wun, center, would be the cheerleading squad’s general captain, with the women on her left l
Deputy Legislative Speaker Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) on Monday urged President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to visit Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) to assert the nation’s sovereignty over the outpost, following the completion of a pier improvement project.Monday marked the official end of a more than NT$1.7 b
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is to build two advanced packaging plants at the Chiayi Science Park, with construction expected to begin in May, Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) said on Monday.The two new facilities are to be dedicated to TSMC’s chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS)
Temperatures are to be significantly cooler on Monday as a cold air mass encroaches from the north, bringing the mercury down to as low as 16°C in northern Taiwan and 20°C in the south, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.After notably cooler daytime temperatures than Sunday, the mercury i
‘EXTREMELY VULNERABLE’: The incoming administration should consider bolstering communication networks and protecting the nation’s energy capabilities, researchers said
The nation’s energy and banking sectors should be bolstered to better withstand Chinese aggression, researchers said, citing the outcome of tabletop war games held last week.The annual tabletop exercise were held by the Asia-Pacific Policy Research Association, the Taiwan Center for Security Studies
SILENT MAJORITY: Only 1 percent of Chinese rejected all options but war to annex Taiwan, while one-third viewed war as unacceptable, a university study showed
Many Chinese are more concerned with developments inside their country than with seeking unification with Taiwan, al-Jazeera reported on Friday.Although China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to annex it, by force if necessary, 23-year-old Chinese Shao Hongtian was quoted by al-Jazee