ASSISTANCE: The plan includes NT$70 billion for loan subsidies, market diversification and job stability, and NT$18 billion for the agricultural sector, the Cabinet said
The eligibility criteria for the Executive Yuan’s NT$88 billion (US$2.7 billion) support package have been broadened at the direction of Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰), with applicants required only to state how their businesses have been affected by the US’ “reciprocal” tariffs.Previous eligibility req
A US Marine Corps regiment equipped with Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) is set to participate in the upcoming Balikatan 25 exercise in the Luzon Strait, marking the system’s first-ever deployment in the Philippines.US and Philippine officials have separately confirmed that the Navy Marine Expeditionary
At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), officials said on Friday.Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DR Congo on Tuesday when the b
US President Donald Trump on Friday said negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “coming to a head” and insisted that neither side is “playing” him in his push to end the grinding war.Trump spoke shortly after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that Washington might “move on” from trying t
‘FORWARD-LOOKING’: Despite Washington’s ‘retaliatory’ tariffs, Taiwan assured the US that it is working fast to strike trade and investment deals that suit the new administration
The US would continue to assist Taiwan with its self-defense and wants to see peace across the Taiwan Strait without coercion or the threat of force, a visiting US senator told President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday.Republican Senator Pete Ricketts in a meeting with Lai at the Presidential Office in
NOT ALERT: The pass is a thinly veiled attempt to collect residents’ personal information and the county government had failed to implement safeguards, the Control Yuan said
The Executive Yuan and the Mainland Affairs Council should look into recent actions taken by the Lienchiang County (Matsu) Government to ensure they do not align with China’s “united front” rhetoric, the Control Yuan said yesterday.A Control Yuan investigation overseen by member Lin Wen-cheng (林文程)
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) leaders for the second night yesterday called for a protest against investigations into alleged signature fraud on recall petitions, after Taipei police ordered an investigation into KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) and other party members for illegal assembly during a pro
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday completed a two-day state visit to Cambodia, capping a three-nation tour that included stops in Vietnam and Malaysia at a time when all three Southeast Asian countries are facing economic challenges from US President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals.China
US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 38 people, Huthi rebels said yesterday, in one of the deadliest attacks of Washington’s renewed campaign against the Iran-backed group.The strikes also injured more than 100 people, according to a Huthi-run television station that broadcast footage of
RESOLUTION 2758: The National Academy for Educational Research said textbooks should have the English and Mandarin text, and state it does not mention Taiwan
School history textbooks should specify that UN Resolution 2758 does not mention Taiwan, and teach students that China is misinterpreting its text to exclude the nation from international affairs, the National Academy for Educational Research said yesterday.The academy issued the statement — one of
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
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