The Child Welfare League Foundation on Tuesday issued a public apology and called for urgent systemic reforms, after two sisters — who worked as nannies and had been commissioned by the foundation to care for a one-year-old boy — were sentenced to prison earlier that day for fatally abusing him. The
From June 23, Taiwan Railways Corp (TRC) is to offer refunds without a handling fee for passengers who opt not to board trains delayed by 10 minutes or more. Passengers who switch to another train or a different class seat within two hours of the original scheduled departure time would still be elig
Taiwanese indie band Sunset Rollercoaster and South Korean outfit Hyukoh collectively received the most nominations at this year’s Golden Melody Awards, earning a total of seven nods from the jury on Wednesday.The bands collaborated on their 2024 album AAA, which received nominations for best band,
EVA Airways yesterday announced that it would upgrade its free inflight Wi-Fi service starting in July, making Internet available to Infinity MileageLands members across all cabins. The airline said it would launch a trial event from July 1 to Sept. 30, allowing all passengers on select aircraft mod
EQUALITY: Passing amendments to the Assisted Reproduction Act would allow more single women and lesbians to benefit and have children, a legislator said
Two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators yesterday urged the government to submit bills that would extend the use of assisted reproduction to single women and same-sex female couples, and promote gender equality education. At a news conference marking the sixth anniversary of the passage o
Renowned English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall is to deliver a speech in Taiwan next month, the Tang Prize Foundation said in a statement on Tuesday. Titled “Inspiring Hope Through Action,” Goodall’s lecture on June 8 would mark her first public appearance in Taiwan in seven years, t
VATICAN TIES: Chen, who also represented the nation at the funeral of Pope Francis last month, is to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass on Sunday
Former vice president Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) has been appointed by President William Lai (賴清德) as a special envoy to attend the inauguration of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican on Sunday, the Presidential Office said yesterday.The Presidential Office said in a statement it had issued an o
‘RECALL FRAUD’: The KMT’s list of signatures on a recall petition includes names of dead people or were used without the consent of the owner, a DPP lawmaker said
Pingtung County prosecutors and judicial officers yesterday searched a local Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) office, and summoned 11 KMT members and staff for questioning over allegations of signature fraud in a campaign to recall an indigenous Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker.Prosecutors
SAFETY CONCERNS: The KMT’s demands are ‘tantamount to blackmail’ and extending the No. 2 reactor’s lifespan is not safe or economically viable, Taipower’s chairman said
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday said they would reject a NT$410 billion (US$13.54 billion) aid package for Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) unless the state-run company extends the service life of the nation’s last remaining nuclear reactor.KMT Legislator Lai Shih-bao (賴士葆) made the de
A woman surnamed Liao (廖) and a man surnamed Huang (黃) have been indicted for orchestrating a cross-border “romance scam” that defrauded three U.S. citizens of more than US$5.32 million, the Taichung District Prosecutors Office said Tuesday.Prosecutors said in a press release that Liao, 36, led a fr
The Republic of China (ROC) Defense Mission to the US and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) have signed a four-year, NT$10.2 billion (US$336.81 million) contract for “logistics support for critical components” for the upgrades of F-16V Block 20 jets, a notice on the Ministry of National Defense
Lawmakers on Tuesday passed amendments to the Criminal Code that add a new chapter on obstruction of justice, introducing offenses such as witness tampering and influence peddling.The amendments were proposed by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP). Party Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said they stemmed
The 2025 Green Island Biennial delves into temporal and spatial isolation experienced by political prisoners in remote confinement, head curator Nobuo Takamori (高森信男) said at an opening ceremony in New Taipei City on Tuesday.While Green Island is geographically close to Taiwan, it came to symbolize
Jeffrey Koo Jr (辜仲諒), former vice chairman of CTBC Financial Holding Co and chairman of Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, has been sentenced to seven years and eight months in jail for his role in a property scandal, the Taipei District Court said on Tuesday.Citing the Securities and Exchange Act
China Airlines flight attendants hold Taipei 101-shaped bottles of water in an undated photograph. The bottled water is to be provided for business class passengers on flights between Taiwan and New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver, as well as Ontario, California, until May 26
Models wearing clothes jointly produced by students of National Tsing Hua University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Fu Jen Catholic University’s Department of Textile and Clothing pose for a photograph in a presentation titled “Kaleidoscope” yesterday.
Minister of Justice Cheng Ming-chien, right, and Marshall Islands Minister of Justice, Immigration and Labor Wisely Zackhras sign the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Isla
The Hualien District Prosecutors' Office today indicted three Hualien County officials for alleged breaches of personal information related to petitions to recall the lawmaker representing the county.The three officials include Hualien Civil Affairs Department head Ming Liang-chen (明良臻) and deputy h
The English translation of Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), written by Yang Shuang-zi (楊双子) and translated by Lin King (金翎), has won the China Books Review award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.The digital magazine said the novel, which is set in late 1930s Taiwan and follows a
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