LONG PROCEDURE: While the NHIA says its average review time for cancer drugs was about 13.7 months, an expert said her calculations showed it took 26.1 months
Three patient support groups yesterday called on the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) to ensure transparency and traceability in new drug review procedures.The Hope Foundation for Cancer Care, Taiwan Alliance of Patients’ Organizations and Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders held a n
Crowd control at the Taipei Dome’s first official event on Sunday went smoothly, with the surrounding streets cleared of 16,647 spectators 30 minutes after Taiwan won its Asian Baseball Championship opener against South Korea 4-0.After the final out of the game at about 8:30pm, staffers holding sign
Wang Fan-sen (王汎森), a distinguished research fellow at Academia Sinica, has received this year’s Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, Academia Sinica said yesterday.Wang, an academician with the Institute of History and Philology, received the award in recogni
‘MODEL OF DEMOCRACY’: Washington’s policy on Taiwan would ‘remain the same, regardless of which party is in power’ after January, AIT Director Sandra Oudkirk said
Supporting Taiwan is one of the strongest consensuses in the US, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Sandra Oudkirk said yesterday, adding that the US is looking forward to working with whoever Taiwanese elect as president.Oudkirk made the remark in a speech on cyberattacks and the manipulat
US Senator Dan Sullivan has called for more military support and harsher economic sanctions to deter China from invading Taiwan.The Republican laid out a “three-layered approach” for the US to meet the “critical immediate needs to bolster deterrence in the Taiwan Strait” in an opinion piece publishe
POSTAL SERVICE: Chunghwa Post plans to restart transshipping packages from China by the end of June, although issues such as inspections would have to be resolved
Borough wardens participating in trips partly funded by Beijing would only have contravened a ban on group tours to China if they had used travel agencies to organize the tours, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said yesterday. Wang made remarks after the Liberty Time
Taiwanese who have recently traveled to China for tourism, to visit friends or relatives or for business reasons have been interrogated, detained and faced other forms of unreasonable treatment from Chinese officials, a source said on Sunday.Among them was a Taiwanese who was detained for eight hour
Insufficient training and lax management are the two main reasons the 66th Marine Corps Brigade lost a T75 light machine gun (LMG) earlier this year, a Control Yuan investigation found. The report for the investigation, which was conducted by Control Yuan members Lin Wen-cheng (林文程) and Wang Mei-yu
A building dedicated to improving disaster rescue and tactical combat casualty care training was inaugurated yesterday at a ceremony at the National Defense Medical Center (NDMC) in Taipei. President Tsai Ing- wen (蔡英文) said in an address at the ceremony that the building’s inauguration marks the co
Online food delivery platform Uber Eats and a local food delivery industry alliance yesterday reached an agreement on several issues to better safeguard the rights of delivery drivers. The two sides hope to propose new regulations after the new central government takes office in May next year, they
B’in Music, the record label of popular Taiwanese band Mayday (五月天), yesterday refuted allegations that the group lip-synced during concerts. "No lip-syncing takes place in Mayday’s ... world tour," the record label said in a statement, adding that such allegations were are a "malicious attack and s
A man working for a recycling company who claimed to have found 14 US$100 bills and tried to exchange them for New Taiwan dollars is being investigated for attempting to circulate counterfeit funds, Taipei police said yesterday. The 37-year-old man, surnamed Su (蘇), took the bills to two separate ba
People holding umbrellas shield themselves from the rain in Taipei yesterday. The Central Weather Administration forecast that the wet weather would last through the middle of the week before giving way to sunny and partly cloudy skies on Thursday and Friday. The week’s lowest temperatures would com
A person takes a photograph of a Christmas tree in front of the Sanduo Presbyterian Church in Kaohsiung yesterday. The tree is touted as being ecofriendly, as it is made from 200 plastic bottles.
Migrant workers’ rights advocates rally in Taipei yesterday, announcing they would hold a march in the city on Sunday to call for the abolition of the labor broker system.
Taiwan’s future: Presidential candidate William Lai said he and Hsiao Bi-khim would continue the stable and steady leadership of President Tsai Ing-wen
Vice President Willam Lai (賴清德), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate, yesterday said he and his running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴), are the choice for a responsible and stable government as he criticized the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party of steeri
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is aiming to have the least expensive presidential election campaign, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday, after the party was reported to have achieved little success in fundraising with KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi (侯友宜) on the ballot. “For the u
China coercion: The general made the comment appearing on US television, adding that the US has a technological edge over China
The US has to pay attention to the pressure that China is putting on Taiwan, even if it is not in a military form, the US’ top general said on Saturday. US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Brown Jr, made the remarks in an interview with FOX News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream.“If you look
Recalling his time as an exchange student in Taiwan, Singapore’s deputy representative to Taiwan Wang Zonghan (王宗翰) said that Taiwanese people are what impressed him most about the experience. Wang in a recent media interview spoke highly of the family that hosted him when he participated in the Tai
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