Taiwan last night blanked world No. 1 Japan 4-0 to win the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) Premier12 for the first time.Taiwanese ace Lin Yu-min (林昱珉) held defending champions Japan to just one hit and no runs in the first four innings, before catcher Lin Chia-cheng (林家正) opened the f
‘TIRADE’: Sara Duterte’s threat on Philippine President Marcos Jr made ‘brazenly in public,’ would be considered a national security issue, Philippine security services said
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on Saturday said she has contracted an assassin to kill the Philippine president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.Philippine Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin
The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal yesterday, but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a US$300 billion a year pledge by 2035 from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.The deal reached at the close of the two-week COP29 summit in Azerbaijan re
An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army center yesterday killed one soldier and wounded 18 others, the Lebanese military said. The Hezbollah militant group also fired barrages of rockets into northern and central Israel, wounding at least five people.Israeli strikes have killed more than 40 Lebanese tr
NO CONDITIONS: Beijing’s calls on Washington to block a stopover by President Lai are ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ interference in US internal affairs, US lawmakers said
Five US representatives on Friday called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to not impose conditions on President William Lai (賴清德) should he make a stopover in US territory during his trip to the South Pacific.The representatives also urged US President Joe Biden to “consider meeting personall
Taiwan yesterday advanced to the gold medal match of the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) Premier12 for the first time in history, despite last night losing 9-6 to Japan. Taiwan advanced after the US defeated Venezuela in the first game on the last day of the Super Round. However, the
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted three people for allegedly facilitating illegal recruitment of tech researchers for Chinese companies. The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau’s Kaohsiung branch found that Lin Chiu-pei’s (林秋培) company was allegedly helping recruit engineers
US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named billionaire Scott Bessent as his US Treasury secretary, choosing the hedge fund manager to help execute an agenda promising tax cuts and tariffs. Bessent, who is chief executive officer of Key Square Group, has called for an extension of tax cuts from
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED: The Laotian police have said they detained some people, but refused to provide further information regarding the investigation
The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, promising it would bring perpetrators to justice. Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. A US man
THWARTING BEIJING: William Lai is to visit the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau to form strategic partnerships and build up a democratic ‘umbrella,’ sources said
President William Lai (賴清德) is to visit allies in the South Pacific, where China has been seeking diplomatic inroads.Lai is to travel from Saturday next week to Dec. 6 to the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tien Chung-kwang (田中光) told a news conference at the P
Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) has accepted the resignation of Minister of Labor Ho Pei-shan (何佩珊) amid criticism of her handling of the death of a worker who was allegedly bullied by a supervisor, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.Cho has appointed Ho’s deputy, Chen Ming-jen (陳明仁), as acting labor mini
AFP and Reuters, THE HAGUE, London, Berlin and ParisThe International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister as well as Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif.The unprecedented move drew a furious reaction fro
EXCHANGES: The US and South Korea have accused Pyongyang of sending 10,000 soldiers to help Russia in its nearly three-year war with Ukraine
Russia provided North Korea with oil, anti-air missiles and economic help in exchange for troops to support Moscow’s war on Ukraine, government officials and a research group said yesterday.The US and South Korea have accused the nuclear-armed North of sending more than 10,000 soldiers to help Russi
Seasonal northeasterly winds could strengthen to a cold air mass and push temperatures in northern Taiwan down to about 14°C on Thursday and Friday next week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.While the northeasterly winds are expected to weaken on Sunday, resulting in temperatures acros
YOUTH PROGRAM: NT$1 billion would be allocated to cover the program next year, followed by NT$2 billion in 2026, NT$3 billion in 2027 and NT$4 billion in 2028
Starting next year, young Taiwanese can apply for individual subsidies of up to NT$2 million (US$61,453) for internships abroad as part of an Executive Yuan program approved yesterday.The four-year program proposed by the Ministry of Education was approved at the weekly Cabinet meeting. It was one o
‘AI SOVEREIGNTY’: TSMC would build a new plant in Taiwan every year over the next decade, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo said on Wednesday
The government is to allocate about NT$30 billion (US$922 million) annually over three years for artificial intelligence (AI) development and seek to enhance cooperation with the incoming administration of US president-elect Donald Trump, National Science and Technology Council Minister Wu Cheng-wen
Taiwan and Lithuania are indispensable partners, as both are democracies at the front line against authoritarian threats, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said at a dinner ceremony in Lithuania on Wednesday.The dinner marked the third anniversary of the establishment of the Taiwanese
Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time since the beginning of the conflict, multiple sources said. The decision to approve the strikes was made in response to the deployment of more than 10,000 North Korean troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine, which British
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah traded deadly blows yesterday as their war raged on, despite signs of progress in US ceasefire efforts, with airstrikes pounding Beirut’s southern suburbs and rockets flying into northern Israel.US mediator Amos Hochstein was in Israel for talks with Israeli officials
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