TAIPEI PROTEST: KMT supporters last night were protesting outside the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office, a restricted area where public assembly is not allowed
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday searched the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Taipei city chapter and questioned staff members, including the director, in a broadening probe into allegedly forged signatures in recall campaigns, Chinese-language media reported.Investigators reporte
The army is seeking to purchase an additional 30 Sikorsky UH-60 Armed Black Hawk helicopters, as well as looking into upgrading its fleet of UH-60M Black Hawks with Hellfire missiles, rockets and autocannons, a source with knowledge of the matter said yesterday on condition of anonymity.The army has
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday arrived in Cambodia for a two-day state visit.The visit, Xi’s first since 2016, concludes a three-nation Southeast Asian tour that included stops in Vietnam and Malaysia.Xi was formally greeted at the airport in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, by Cambodia
North Korea criticized the US for deploying a B-1B strategic bomber in a recent joint military drill with South Korea, describing the move as an “open threat” to Pyongyang’s security, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported yesterday.The North Korean Ministry of Defense spokesperson s
TARIFF TALKS: The economic affairs minister said the ministry would ‘watch import volumes, strictly enforce penalties and revoke import-export licenses of fraudsters’
The Ministry of Economic Affairs would fine companies that contravene country of origin laws NT$60,000 to NT$3 million (US$1,845 to US$92,251), Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said at the legislature in Taipei yesterday, adding that serious breaches would result in a suspension of a firm
‘FORM OF PROTEST’: The German Institute Taipei said it was ‘shocked’ to see Nazi symbolism used in connection with political aims as it condemned the incident
Sung Chien-liang (宋建樑), who led efforts to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lee Kun-cheng (李坤城), was released on bail of NT$80,000 yesterday amid an outcry over a Nazi armband he wore to questioning the night before.Sung arrived at the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office
Sixty-two military personnel held Chinese residence permits, including two volunteer service members, Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said at the legislature in Taipei yesterday, citing a probe that ended last month.None of the personnel had Chinese passports, ID cards or permanent
Years of negotiations culminated early yesterday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle pandemics, aimed at avoiding mistakes made during the COVID-19 pandemic.After more than three years of talks and one last session, delegates at the WHO’s headquarters sealed the de
Assailants targeted vehicles and a building lobby linked to prison staff in France overnight, authorities said yesterday, the latest in a series of such attacks.Since Sunday, unknown assailants have hit several jails and facilities across France, torching vehicles, spraying the entrance of one priso
UNDER ATTACK: Raymond Greene said there were 412 billion malicious threats in the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2023, with 55 percent targeting Taiwan
Taiwan not only faces military intimidation from China, but is also on the front line of global cybersecurity threats, and it is taking action to counter those attacks, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday.Speaking at the opening of this year’s Cybersec Expo in Taipei, the president assured fo
Nvidia Corp, the dominant player in chips for artificial intelligence (AI) models, plans to produce as much as US$500 billion of AI infrastructure in the US over the next four years through manufacturing partnerships.Production of Nvidia’s latest-generation AI chip, known as Blackwell, has begun at
‘ALWAYS-ON’ POWER: Taiwan had an installed capacity of 7 megawatts of geothermal energy production as of February last year, data showed
Google yesterday said it had signed a geothermal power purchase agreement with Baseload Power Taiwan (台灣倍速羅得) to support clean energy development — its first such deal in the Asia-Pacific region.Initial projects under the deal would add 10 megawatts of “always-on” power to the grid and “help catalyz
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday urged Vietnam to join forces in upholding free trade before wrapping up a visit to Hanoi which US President Donald Trump said was aiming to “screw” the US.Xi visited Vietnam as part of a Southeast Asia tour that is to include Malaysia and Cambodia, with B
Japanese engineers yesterday began a difficult operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.About 880 tonnes of hazardous material are inside the site after a catastrophic tsunami caused by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake trigge
PERSONAL DATA: The implicated KMT members allegedly compiled their petitions by copying names from party lists without the consent of the people concerned
Judicial authorities searched six locations yesterday and questioned six people, including one elderly Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) member and five KMT Youth League associates, about alleged signature forgery and fraud relating to their recall efforts against two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP
GOODWILL GESTURE: The deportation of the telecom fraud suspects occurred just before Xi Jinping began a visit to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia yesterday
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MOFA) yesterday expressed a solemn protest and concerns to Cambodia for deporting three groups of Taiwanese suspects, who had been arrested in the nation for alleged engagement in fraud, to China on Sunday evening and yesterday morning.The Cambodian government cracked
Retired US general Robert B. Abrams reportedly served as adviser to Chief of the General Staff Admiral Mei Chia-shu (梅家樹) during the Ministry of National Defense’s computer-simulated war games in the buildup to this year’s 41st annual Han Kuang military exercises, local media reported yesterday.For
World leaders on Sunday condemned a Russian missile strike on Ukraine, one of the deadliest attacks in months, while US President Donald Trump called it a “horrible thing” and a “mistake.”Two ballistic missiles hit the center of the northeastern city of Sumy, close to the Russian border, on Sunday m
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday said that protectionism “leads nowhere” and that a trade war would have “no winners,” state media reported, as he arrived in Vietnam on the first leg of a Southeast Asia tour.Xi is to visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia on his first overseas trip of the
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