Typhoon Gaemi, which made landfall in Yilan County’s Nanao Township (南澳) on Thursday, has left seven dead, one missing and 785 injured since Wednesday, the Central Emergency Operations Center said.The casualties announced by the center as of 2pm yesterday included two men who died in separate incide
Relying on nuclear power is the wrong strategy for Taiwan to achieve net zero emissions, a coalition of environmental groups said yesterday, amid rising calls from some lawmakers and government officials in support of it.The National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform held a news conference in Taipei
A foreign teacher has won a lawsuit against St Dominic Catholic High School in Kaohsiung and is to receive financial compensation following a recent court ruling.The lawsuit was filed by a man identified as teacher “J.” He worked at the school from September 2002 to August 2007, and from September 2
BETTER CARE NEEDED: Although the mortality rate for children has fallen thanks to the program, Taiwan still lags behind neighboring countries
The Executive Yuan last week approved plans to allocate about NT$13.5 billion (US$411 million) for child healthcare over the next four years, nearly five times more than the current program.The government expects to spend NT$13.5 billion on medical care for pregnant women, newborns and children from
‘COMPUTING POOL’: The ministry said it expects to approve 60 enterprises to have access to the computing resources, and begin accepting applications before Aug. 13
Taiwan is investing NT$65 million (US$1.98 million) to build shared computing resources for eligible Taiwanese artificial intelligence (AI) developers, Minister of Digital Affairs Huang Yen-nun (黃彥男) said yesterday.AI technology is important for the nation’s economic future, but the cost of computer
The Taipei District Court’s ruling against Hsinchu Mayor Anne Kao (高虹安) was regrettable and highlighted the lack of proportionality in the justice system’s meting out of punishments for similar crimes, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) said yesterday.Kao was found guilty of contravening the Anti-Corru
The Fanxing Project (繁星計畫) introduced by China’s Fudan University to attract young Taiwanese to intern at Chinese companies during the summer vacation is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “united front” tactics, a Taiwanese academic said. The Shanghai branch of China’s Taiwan Affairs Offic
‘LAWFARE’: The China Coast Guard’s boat seizure in February should be seen in the context of the CCP’s legal warfare tactics against Taiwan, experts say
Taiwanese fisher Chen Zhi-rong says that for decades it was common to sail in waters that skirted the Chinese coastline. Since Beijing seized a boat and its crew for the first time in 17 years for contravening a fishing ban — and continues to detain them — all that has changed.The China Coast Guard
Unlike most countries, Taiwan cannot use its country’s own name to compete in the Olympic Games or other major international sports events.Instead, it participates under the name “Chinese Taipei,” a name that causes confusion and sparks curiosity among many people, including an American director who
Troops from the Huadong Defense Command remove fallen trees from a school campus in Hualien County yesterday as part of the mobilization assisting disaster relief in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi.
Choristers from countries including Spain, Indonesia and Norway pose for a photograph during the grand opening of the Taipei International Choral Festival at National Taiwan Museum in Taipei yesterday.
Cosplayers pose for photographers at the Comic Exhibition at Hall 1 of the Taipei World Trade Center yesterday, the first day of the four-day event. Now in its 23rd year, the exhibition remains one of Taiwan’s largest annual shows for comics and anime.
US-CHINA TRADE DISPUTE: Despite Beijing’s offer of preferential treatment, the lure of China has dimmed as Taiwanese and international investors move out
Japan and the US have become the favored destinations for Taiwanese graduates as China’s attraction has waned over the years, the Ministry of Labor said.According to the ministry’s latest income and employment advisory published this month, 3,215 Taiwanese university graduates from the class of 2020
Typhoon Gaemi has brought about 970 million tonnes of rainfall into Taiwan’s reservoirs over the past two days, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) said.From 7am on Tuesday to 7am yesterday, a total of 973.77 million tonnes of water poured into reservoirs across the nation, agency data showed.Reservoir
Taiwan Mobile has been fined NT$300,000 (US$9,136) as a default surcharge for failing to dispose of the excess bandwidth in frequency bands below 1 gigahertz (GHz) before the deadline designated by the National Communications Commission (NCC), as well as an additional NT$3 million fine for contrave
UNFIT HUSBAND: The couple’s children said they had seen the violent acts that their father had committed and blasted his demand for payment
The Miaoli District Court has granted a woman’s petition for a divorce after being presented with evidence of domestic violence that included being splashed with hot milk, urine and being forced to take cold showers. In the ruling handed out earlier this week, the court said that the woman, whose na
Taiwan has not approved any electronic-cigarette products, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said, adding that users of heated tobacco products and vapes are subject to fines.The agency’s latest warning came after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus early this month published securit
DIVERSE TEAM: The committee includes representatives from traditional industries, environmental group advocates as well as energy and sustainability experts
The National Climate Change Strategy Committee is to convene its first meeting early next month after the initial plan to hold the inaugural meeting yesterday was postponed due to Typhoon Gaemi, sources said.The committee was one of three established one month after President William Lai (賴清德) took
The Russia-Ukraine war is a warning to democracies that they should not have unrealistic expectations about authoritarian nations, a visiting German parliament member said in Taipei on Tuesday.German Bundestag’s Parliamentary Oversight Panel deputy head and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Ro
The trailer of a new TV series portraying a Chinese attack on Taiwan has prompted a wave of emotional response and discussion in the nation.The teaser for Zero Day (零日攻擊), a Taiwanese production partly funded by the government and is expected to air next year, has given many viewers a sense of urgen