BUSINESS
Huang ‘smartest CEO’: site
Web site Visual Capitalist has listed Taiwan-born Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) as the US’ “smartest CEO” out of 100 CEOs. A Frontiers in Psychology study featured in a Visual Capitalist report suggested that people who use more complex sentence structures tend to perform better in uncertain decisionmaking scenarios. The Visual Capitalist collaborated with Preply to run a generated analysis of speeches conducted by 100 CEOs, as well as 26 additional high-ranking executives. The CEOs were ranked based on verbal ability, abstract and conceptual thinking, creativity, memory and recall, and logical reasoning, the report said. Huang topped the list with a score of 81.3, followed by Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet, scoring 80.9, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis with 80.8.
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WEATHER
Warm weather expected
Warm weather is expected to continue on Tuesday, before a seasonal northeasterly wind system sets in on Wednesday, which would cause temperatures to drop 5°C to 6°C, particularly in Taichung and the rest of central Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Daytime temperatures yesterday ranged from 31°C to 33°C in the west, and 28°C to 29°C in eastern Taiwan, and reached 35°C in the south, the CWA said. The CWA urged the public to take precautions to avoid sunburn and drink sufficient water to prevent dehydration. Independent meteorologist Daniel Wu (吳德榮) said the weather is expected to get warmer tomorrow and on Tuesday, and reach 35°C in most of Taiwan.
SOCIETY
Fight leaves man blind
A violent altercation between two neighbors in New Taipei City left one man permanently blind after his eyeballs were dislodged, police said yesterday. The suspect, surnamed Chien (簡), turned himself in at about 9am on Thursday after a fight with his neighbor, a man surnamed Lien (連), the New Taipei City Police Department’s Ruifang Precinct said. Chien told officers he hit Lien in the head with a brick after a verbal argument escalated. Police went to the scene and found Lien lying injured, having sustained a head trauma, facial injuries, swollen eyes and a chin wound. Doctors later discovered that Lien’s eyeballs were missing. Police returned to the scene and recovered the eyeballs, but they could not be saved, leaving Lien permanently blind. Investigators said that during the altercation, Lien reportedly bit Chien’s arm and refused to let go. To break free, Chien jabbed at Lien’s face, causing the severe eye injuries. Chien was handed over to the Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office for further investigation on suspicion of attempted murder. He was released on NT$120,000 bail after questioning.
TRADE
Taobao scrutiny urged
Lawmakers on Wednesday called for tighter oversight of Chinese e-commerce giant Taobao following the US’ decision to scrap tax exemptions for low-value imports from China as part of its efforts to address trade imbalances. Democratic Progressive Party legislators asked whether Taiwan’s policy — which allows up to six tax-exempt low-value shipments of up to NT$2,000 every six months — is overly lenient. Minister of Finance Chuang Tsui-yun (莊翠雲) said the ministry is carefully reviewing the tax exemption system for small parcels to prevent any unfair impact on local industries.
South Korean K-pop girl group Blackpink are to make Kaohsiung the first stop on their Asia tour when they perform at Kaohsiung National Stadium on Oct. 18 and 19, the event organizer said yesterday. The upcoming performances will also make Blackpink the first girl group ever to perform twice at the stadium. It will be the group’s third visit to Taiwan to stage a concert. The last time Blackpink held a concert in the city was in March 2023. Their first concert in Taiwan was on March 3, 2019, at NTSU Arena (Linkou Arena). The group’s 2022-2023 “Born Pink” tour set a
CPBL players, cheerleaders and officials pose at a news conference in Taipei yesterday announcing the upcoming All-Star Game. This year’s CPBL All-Star Weekend is to be held at the Taipei Dome on July 19 and 20.
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s decision that ruled in favor of former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) regarding the legitimacy of her doctoral degree. The issue surrounding Tsai’s academic credentials was raised by former political talk show host Dennis Peng (彭文正) in a Facebook post in June 2019, when Tsai was seeking re-election. Peng has repeatedly accused Tsai of never completing her doctoral dissertation to get a doctoral degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984. He subsequently filed a declaratory action charging that
The Hualien Branch of the High Court today sentenced the main suspect in the 2021 fatal derailment of the Taroko Express to 12 years and six months in jail in the second trial of the suspect for his role in Taiwan’s deadliest train crash. Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), the driver of a crane truck that fell onto the tracks and which the the Taiwan Railways Administration's (TRA) train crashed into in an accident that killed 49 people and injured 200, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in the first trial by the Hualien District Court in 2022. Hoa Van Hao, a
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