CULTURE
Museum corrects speaker
The National Palace Museum, which will hold an exhibition in Japan next year, said yesterday the list of items to be displayed is still under discussion. Museum officials made the announcement after Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) said during a visit to Japan that the museum would lend its famed Jadeite Cabbage with Insects and its Meat-shaped Stone to the Tokyo National Museum for the exhibition in June next year. The National Palace Museum said the Japanese museum has also requested a Song Dynasty painting titled Early Spring. However, officials said at a press conference that the painting would not be sent to Japan because it is too delicate to make the trip, adding it also needs to have further discussions about sending the Jadeite Cabbage with Insects and the Meat-shaped Stone, as they are the museum’s most precious artifacts. The two museums are also working on an exchange exhibition in Taiwan in 2017 that the National Palace Museum hopes will showcase the development of Japanese art.
EARTHQUAKES
Quakes jolt eastern Taiwan
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake jolted eastern Taiwan at 5:12pm on Thursday, the fourth temblor of magnitude 4 or greater in less than 24 hours in the area, the Central Weather Bureau reported. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Hualien County’s Jhuosi Township (卓溪) at a depth of 10.8km, bureau officials said. The strongest tremors were felt in Taitung County’s Chihshang Township (池上). Between 10:30pm on Wednesday and midnight Thursday three other earthquakes, of magnitude 4.6, 4.7 and 4.1, were recorded in Hualien. The quakes, all very shallow, were centered in Hualien’s Shoufeng Township (壽豐), the bureau said.
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Monday called for greater cooperation between Taiwan, Lithuania and the EU to counter threats to information security, including attacks on undersea cables and other critical infrastructure. In a speech at Vilnius University in the Lithuanian capital, Tsai highlighted recent incidents in which vital undersea cables — essential for cross-border data transmission — were severed in the Taiwan Strait and the Baltic Sea over the past year. Taiwanese authorities suspect Chinese sabotage in the incidents near Taiwan’s waters, while EU leaders have said Russia is the likely culprit behind similar breaches in the Baltic. “Taiwan and our European
The Taipei District Court sentenced babysitters Liu Tsai-hsuan (劉彩萱) and Liu Jou-lin (劉若琳) to life and 18 years in prison respectively today for causing the death of a one-year-old boy in December 2023. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said that Liu Tsai-hsuan was entrusted with the care of a one-year-old boy, nicknamed Kai Kai (剴剴), in August 2023 by the Child Welfare League Foundation. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 23 that year, she and her sister Liu Jou-lin allegedly committed acts of abuse against the boy, who was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries on Dec. 24, 2023, but did not
LIKE-MINDED COUNTRIES: Despite the threats from outside, Taiwan and Lithuania thrived and developed their economies, former president Tsai Ing-wen said Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Saturday thanked Lithuania for its support of Taiwan, saying that both countries are united as partners in defending democracy. Speaking at a reception organized by the Lithuania-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group welcoming her on her first visit to the Baltic state, Tsai said that while she was president from 2016 to last year, many Lithuanian “friends” visited Taiwan. “And I told myself I have to be here. I am very happy that I am here, a wonderful country and wonderful people,” Tsai said. Taiwan and Lithuania are in similar situations as both are neighbors to authoritarian countries, she
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to visit the UK during her ongoing European trip, which originally included only Lithuania and Denmark, her office said today. Tsai departed Taiwan for Europe on Friday night, with planned stops in Lithuania and Denmark, marking her second visit to the continent since her two-term presidency ended in May last year. Her office issued a statement today saying that Tsai would also visit the UK "for a few days," during which she is to meet with UK politicians and Taiwanese professionals, and visit academic and research institutions. Following Tsai's stop in Denmark, she is to visit the
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