Asked about the potential repercussions of US President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the US presidential election, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) yesterday said that Taiwan-US relations have been growing steadily over the past few years, with both countries sharing common interests and taking responsibil
END OF TENURE: Grzegorzewski thanked the nation for helping Ukraine and said he was glad Taiwan became part of the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy while he was EETO head
The EU’s top diplomat in Taiwan, Filip Grzegorzewski, yesterday praised the nation as “a land of good fortune” and expressed his best wishes after being awarded a presidential honor for his contributions to promoting relations between the two sides during his five-year tenure.Speaking in fluent Mand
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) working group for Taiwan-related policies is likely to be upgraded to a committee-level body, a report commissioned by the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said. As Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is increasingly likely to upgrade the CCP’s Central Leading Group
Taiwan yesterday carried out anti-landing drills on a strategic river on the first day of the annual Han Kuang exercises, which this year aim to be as close as possible to actual combat, with no script, while simulating how to repel a Chinese attack.China has been staging regular exercises around Ta
GHOST MONTH: Tiantan Tiangong Temple chairman Hsu Kuo-jen said that centralized burning of offerings is a good way to achieve the original aims of the ‘pudu’ ceremony
Ahead of the Ghost Festival, Minister of Environment Peng Chi-ming (彭啟明) yesterday said the ministry would not ask people not to burn incense or joss paper (also known as ghost money), but would encourage people to do it in more eco-friendly ways.Peng made the remark at a news conference held with t
HEALTH: Hepatitis B and C were previously the main causes of liver cancer, but recent studies in Japan show that the main cause is now fatty liver, experts say
More than half of participants in a free liver testing event tested positive for fatty liver disease, the foundation that held the event said on Sunday. A total of 30 medical institutions across Taiwan examined 5,771 people using abdominal ultrasound on Sunday, with 158 people found to have liver ca
A National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) research team has developed a technique to observe the interactions of interneurons in live animals under the microscope.NYCU Institute of Neuroscience assistant professors Chen Tsai-wen (陳摘文) and Lin Bei-jung (林貝容) led the team, whose research was p
The Control Yuan yesterday approved its probe report on a near-shore solar power project in Changhua County, with a decision to censure the Ministry of Economic Affairs for negligence and misconduct leading to an estimated NT$7 billion (US$213.10 million) loss to the government’s renewable energy in
The Constitutional Court yesterday announced the procedures for the morning and afternoon sessions on Aug. 6 to hear oral arguments from lawyers and representatives of political parties on a constitutional interpretation regarding executive oversight amendments, following the granting of a temporary
TRAVEL Flight delayed after ‘joke’A 70-year-old man, surnamed Chung (鍾), was arrested for saying he had a grenade in his luggage when checking in for an EVA Airways flight at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday, a day after a Tigerair Taiwan flight from Kaohsiung was delayed for two hours
Health Promotion Administration (HPA) Director-General Wu Chao-chun, left, poses with television celebrity and pop singer Amber An at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. The news conference was to encourage young people to measure their blood pressure, as an HPA survey found that nearly 70 percen
People practice to “duck and cover” during the Wanan air raid drill at the Taiwan High Speed Rail’s Changhua Station yesterday. The first day of the four-day air raid drills was held in central Taiwan between 1:30pm and 2pm yesterday. The drills are to be held at the same time in northern Taiwan tod
AMERICA FIRST? Former US president Donald Trump has a transactional approach to international relations, and geopolitics is secondary to him, David Sacks said
Former US president Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, could weaken alliances and undermine deterrence against China, posing risks for Taiwan, international relations experts have warned.Trump would face US President Joe Biden in November if Biden withstands the pressure fr
The US military is confident that it would win a war against China if a conflict broke out in the Taiwan Strait, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown said at a forum on Saturday. During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado, on Saturday, CNN reporter Jenni
ENGLISH-MANDARIN: A lawmaker said that he believed the change was made to follow common practice while operating in international airspace
The air force this month started issuing Chinese-English bilingual radio warnings to expel Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft that fly into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), a senior military official said on July 9.Air Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Wang Te-yang
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) on Saturday announced it would assign personnel to work at a local service center in Kinmen County to promote cross-strait ties.“[The move] signifies that the government is 100 percent committed to promoting healthy cross-strait exchanges,” SEF Vice Chairman and
ANOTHER EMERGES: The CWA yesterday said this year’s fourth storm of the typhoon season had formed in the South China Sea, but was not expected to affect Taiwan
Tropical Storm Gaemi has intensified slightly as it heads toward Taiwan, where it is expected to affect the country in the coming days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday.As of 8am yesterday, the 120km-radius storm was 800km southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost tip,
THE PROGRAM: Courses are open for students from art or science streams and aims to teach the science, industrial ecosystems and international geopolitics of semiconductors
The Ministry of Education is to expand the pilot program of semiconductor education to cover 35 senior-high schools.The ministry has extended semiconductor education to senior-high schools and vocational schools, and worked with 11 schools in the pilot program for the 2023-2024 academic year, source
The US Bureau of International Labor Affairs is later this year to announce whether Taiwanese-caught fish would be removed from its List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Taiwan made the list in 2020 and 2022, largely because of its treatment of foreign fishers.While the government s
A 22-year-old college student, who is an outdoors sports enthusiast, said he had seemingly enlarged facial freckles after traveling to Kenting last summer. It was later diagnosed as solar lentigo.The case was cited by Yuan’s General Hospital dermatologist Liu Chao-hung (劉昭宏), who said solar lentigo,