CENTENNIAL CONCERNS: Legislators raise worries about Chinese-made counterfeit souvenirs sold online as the museum’s 100th birthday approaches next year
The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee yesterday reviewed the National Palace Museum’s budget for next year, making no cuts to the budget, but freezing a significant portion of it.A total of NT$350 million (US$10.78 million) of the museum’s budget was frozen over concerns about the m
An 11-month prison sentence was finalized yesterday for media personality Lucifer Chu (朱學恒), after he declined to appeal last month’s ruling by the High Court.Chu was accused of forcibly kissing Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Chung Pei-chun (鍾沛君) twice on the lips at a restaur
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is to continue to promote tourism to transit passengers at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport by offering a limited number of guided group tours to the Taoyuan Lantern Festival in February, it said yesterday.Taoyuan airport last year received a rec
The Doulos Hope, a floating bookshop operated by the German-based Christian charity GBA Ships, opened to the public in Kaohsiung Wednesday as it kicked off its three-city tour in Taiwan.The former cruise ship docked at Kaohsiung Port’s Pier 8 is stocked with over 2,000 books on a range of topics, in
DNA tests released on Tuesday confirmed that human remains found in the Philippines earlier this month belonged to a Taiwanese national who had been reported missing since October, local police said.A 47-year-old Taiwanese businessman surnamed Hung (洪), a resident of Paranaque, was reported missing
SECURITY: The Minister of National Defense said that there are risks to publicizing information about Chinese incursions, including revealing capabilities and sources
A US academic’s recent call for greater transparency in reporting China’s military incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) presents a difficult choice, Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said yesterday.“This is a dilemma for us,” Koo told reporters on the sidel
A Japanese space rocket carrying a Taiwanese satellite blasted off yesterday, but was later seen spiraling downward in the distance as the company said the launch attempt had failed.It was the second attempt by the Japanese start-up Space One to become the country’s first private firm to put a satel
Cross-party negotiations yesterday broke down at the Legislative Yuan as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) declared that the review process was complete for amending the rules on recall votes, while Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators said the process was invalid as the review did not f
The deputy director of an after-school tutoring center in New Taipei City was indicted for allegedly sexually harassing six girls aged nine to 13 while playing games and providing academic guidance, the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office said yesterday.The man, surnamed Chiu (邱), started w
TOURISM: China continues to restrict its own citizens from group travel to Taiwan, with the exception of a minimal number of Fujian residents to Kinmen and Matsu
Lawmakers yesterday engaged in a feverish debate during a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee over whether the ban on tour group travel to China should be lifted. The debate followed remarks by Shanghai Vice Mayor Hua Yuan (華源) at the Taipei-Shanghai Twin-City Forum in Taipei on Tu
Taiwan’s technology sector should lean into the nation’s advantages in servers and chips to overcome the barriers to artificial intelligence (AI) development, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association executive officer Wu Chih-yi (吳志毅) said yesterday. He made the comments at the 12th edition of the
Beijing has extended its “united front” efforts to university campuses in Taiwan by offering students cultural activity opportunities in China, a source said on Sunday, urging the Ministry of Education to enhance scrutiny of such programs.China has focused its “united front” activities on attracting
China Airlines Ltd president Kao Shing-hwang, center, rear, and Olympic gold medalist Lee Yang, fourth left, rear, take pictures with children participating in the China Airlines Badminton Camp in Taoyuan yesterday.
A woman holds two incense bags that are to be given out for free on Dec. 31 from Xuanwudadi Temple in Tainan. Those receiving the incense bags are said to have peace and safety for the coming year.
Protestors against the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT’s) proposed amendments to the Election and Recall Act gather outside of the party’s headquarters last night.
The Taitung County Government today reminded the public that raising and breeding Formosan rock macaques is illegal, punishable by a fine between NT$50,000 and NT$250,000.The reminder comes after several cases were found of people keeping and raising macaques as pets after their protected wildlife s
Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) today said he aims to build a "bridge of peace," as he embarked on his second visit to China this year.Ma is leading a group of Taiwanese students from an academy under the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation to visit the provinces of Heilongjiang and Sichuan from today to Th
A new white paper on air quality, which is expected to be released by the end of March next year at the earliest, is to encompass public suggestions, the Ministry of Environment said today at a news conference to discuss the paper.The paper would serve as the foundation for developing the third phas
An 11-month prison sentence was finalized today for media personality Lucifer Chu (朱學恒), after he declined to appeal last month’s ruling by the High Court. Chu was accused of forcibly kissing Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Chung Pei-chun (鍾沛君) twice on the lips at a restaurant
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