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More than 100 Taiwanese-Americans, Taiwanese lawmakers and members of civic groups on Saturday marched through New York City to call for Taiwan’s participation in the UN, with Marshall Island Permanent Representative to the UN John Silk joining the event to show support. Participants chanted: “UN fo
PRICE STABILIZATION: The Ministry of Economic Affairs has urged the legislature to support the Cabinet’s supplementary budget for state-owned energy companies State-owned oil supplier CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) on Saturday announced that it would raise domestic gasoline prices by NT$0.7 (US$0.02) per liter and diesel prices by NT$0.6 per liter this week after international crude oil prices rose above US$100 per barrel last week. Formosa Petrochemical Co
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence (AI) firms to slow down the development of the powerful technology, amid mounting worries over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to j
Houthi fighters yesterday said they used drones and missiles to attack a military base in southern Saudi Arabia as renewed fighting with the Yemeni government forces forced growing numbers of civilians to flee. The attack at the southern Sharurah base targeted “weapons depots and command and control
DIPLOMACY: ‘Free peoples speak the same language. Free peoples recognize one another,’ the European Parliament vice president said, adding she would visit Taiwan Taiwan has the same right as anyone else to make friends and work with like-minded partners despite Beijing’s efforts to restrict its international presence, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) said on Friday. “We believe strongly that like every citizen in the world, we have the right to make friend
DIGITAL EQUALITY: Mobile phone ownership in the nation rose to 98.04 percent last year, surpassing color televisions to become the most common household device Smartphone and Internet access in Taiwan exceeds 90 percent even among the lowest-income households, a survey released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) showed. The latest Survey of Family Income and Expenditure, which compared the top 20 percent of income earne
Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) today returned to Taiwan after attending the Second Ventotene European Conference for Freedom and Democracy in Italy.Upon her arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Hsiao delivered remarks via livestream about her visit to the Italian island of Ventotene,
DIPLOMATIC TOUR: Chinese President Xi Jinping began a series of overseas visits last month to Kyrgyzstan, Egypt and India, aimed at securing leverage, an official said Recent Chinese diplomatic and military moves are aimed at creating pressure ahead of a planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and US President Donald Trump, National Security Council adviser Huang Chung-yen (黃重諺) said.Trump when visiting China in May extended an invitation to Xi
POLITICAL STUNT: The state-funded drama purposely misinterprets Taiwanese history to evoke the feeling of ‘shared ancestry’ among Taiwanese, the academic said A Taiwanese academic yesterday slammed Chinese drama Emperor Jiaqing and the Journey to Taiwan (嘉慶君遊臺灣), saying it distorted history and promoted a cross-strait unification narrative.The microdrama is funded and presented by Jingcai Taiwan, a Chinese state-run media platform of the Beijing Municipal
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tighter control has made it difficult to separate China from the party, a former Taiwanese defense academic said on Saturday, urging the public to recognize their growing overlap.Former Fu Hsing Kang College at National Defense University dean Yu Tsung-Chi (余宗基) m
European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno on Saturday praised Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) as a role model for freedom-loving women around the world and said she would soon begin planning a trip to Taipei after accepting Hsiao’s invitation to visit.Hsiao visited Italy to attend the Seco
Taiwan cannot be overlooked in building a drone supply chain independent of China, US-based Shield AI’s Taiwan representative Chen Yi-ju (陳奕儒) said in an interview.Two years ago, less than 1 percent of the materials used in Shield AI products came from Taiwan, Chen said. That figure had risen to 16
TRIAGE TIME: The guidelines, which address more than a thousand common symptoms, should help people to choose the most efficient treatment option The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) yesterday released the Healthy Taiwan Guidelines for Appropriate Use of Healthcare Services, providing healthcare recommendations for 1,067 common symptoms.The NTUH Referral Management Center released the guidelines with the aim of addressing the phenom
NOW KISS: The premier made the remarks while serving as a witness to a mass wedding at the Grand Hotel, where many Chunghwa Telecom staff married Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) yesterday encouraged newlyweds to have children while attending a mass wedding held by Chunghwa Telecom in Taipei, where 72 couples were married.Cho, who served as a witness at the ceremony at the Grand Hotel, thanked the newlyweds for taking a step that could help Taiwan
The National Environmental Research Academy on Friday announced results of the Ministry of Environment’s green-collar training exam, saying the exam had a 60 percent pass rate, with an average score of 60.The course’s second exam of the year was held earlier this month with more than 900 people taki
SOME CUSHION: Taiwan’s GDP is forecast to grow more than 11 percent this year, so the economy should be able to absorb the impact of a rate hike, an expert said With domestic inflation topping the 2 percent alert level for a fourth consecutive month last month and several major central banks around the world raising their key interest rates, Taiwan’s central bank is facing growing pressure to raise rates at its quarterly policymaking meeting on Thursday, ec
NexCOBOT Co (創博) expects robust growth in its artificial intelligence (AI) controller business this year and next year, as partnerships across a range of robotics applications begin to bear fruit, chairman Clement Lin (林茂昌) said in an interview with the Taipei Times on Monday last week.NexCOBOT is a
CHOICES: The decision on rates would be Fed chief Kevin Warsh’s first test — whether he chooses to disappoint markets or risk angering the US president — an expert said The US Federal Reserve goes into a key rate-setting meeting this week with markets expecting policymakers to pull the trigger on a rate hike to tackle persistently high inflation — and analysts said central bank chief Kevin Warsh’s credibility is on the line.The world’s largest economy has been deal
With candidate registration for this year’s local elections closed on Sept. 4 and the elections less than 80 days away, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen’s (沈伯洋) rapidly growing popularity has become the focus of political talk shows and online disc
Taiwan’s domestic political situation is following recognizable political rhythms, while the international environment surrounding Taiwan is undergoing a major transformation.Within Taiwan, there are ongoing battles between the legislative and executive branches over the budget, and between cities a
Over the past year, many friends of mine who are responsible for sustainability at listed and over-the-counter companies have been extremely busy. They have shouldered a major responsibility: preparing sustainability reports and compiling materials for related assessments. The Taiwan Stock Exchange
BOOKEND: Lee launched the Tigers’ eighth-inning rally and came back in the same frame to punctuate it with a 12-pitch at-bat that ended with a two-run triple Taiwanese second baseman Lee Hao-yu on Saturday sparked a seven-run, eight-inning rally with a double and capped it with a two-run triple as the hosts Detroit Tigers downed the struggling Colorado Rockies, 11-7.Lee had three hits, scored twice and drove in three runs. Max Clark supplied three hits w
Taiwan yesterday routed the Philippines 13-0 in the Taipei Dome with a 10-run second-inning to win the bronze-medal game of the Baseball Federation of Asia’s U-18 Asian Baseball Championship.In the second inning of the five-inning mercy-rule victory, with 14 plate appearances by Taiwan’s nine batter
After taking 10 years to win his first world championship, Ryan Garcia on Saturday night needed only 4 minutes, 25 seconds to finish off Conor Benn in the first defense of his WBC welterweight title.“I kind of figured he would just come at me crazy,” Garcia said. “Second round, I said I’m tired of h
Taiwan’s men’s basketball team yesterday drained 17 three-pointers in a 91-69 rout of Qatar, advancing to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games in Japan.The lopsided victory was largely powered by the team’s precision long-range shooting.Of the 17 three-pointers, seven came in the opening quarter, g
FROSTY RECEPTION: ‘I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalization of war and genocide can never be accepted,’ the Irish president said US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he would “love to see” a united Ireland, wading into a politically sensitive subject as he embarked on a two-day Irish visit that blurs the lines between his presidency and personal business interests. After meeting Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin
KILLING ‘FACTORY’: ‘The Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us how this mass killing is systemic,’ Abraham said as he accepted the award A chilling new documentary about Israel’s artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted killing of civilians in Gaza by two Israeli directors on Saturday won a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. NAZA, by Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, had been tipped by some crit
Russian strikes on Saturday killed at least seven people and wounded almost 60 across Ukraine, Kyiv said, as Moscow steps up attacks ahead of another winter of war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for an adequate response from allies as Russia intensified attacks in a fifth year of wa
The comical bit of parachute journalism by Simon Shuster in the Atlantic last week under the title “Will Taiwan Just Give Up?”, drew much attention for its numerous minor errors, largely forgivable, its total lack of understanding of Taiwan and its history and its strange, pro-China interpretations,
Sept 14 to Sept 20Hwang Tae-im’s in-laws were among the many Korean families that congregated in Keelung after World War II, hoping to board a ship home. Japanese colonial rule had ended in both Korea and Taiwan, and many Koreans were eager to return to their newly-liberated homeland. Around 3,000
For a time, it became popular to describe the tactics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in encroaching on sovereignty and militarizing islands in the South China Sea as “salami slicing.” Those slices have been getting chunkier. The People’s Liberation Army has been increasing its navy and air
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Why do people sit with their legs crossed? For many, crossing one leg over the other at the knee is comfortable and habitual. Over the years, people have wondered whether the position is bad for their health. Some believe it may __1__ high blood pressure or circulation problems. Others are concerned
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