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The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) yesterday announced amendments to the Regulations Governing the Allocation and Use of Road Traffic Fines (道路交通違規罰鍰收入分配及運用辦法) that would increase the proportion of revenue from traffic fines used to improve traffic safety and enforcement from “
Taiwanese Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) yesterday won her second consecutive Asian Games boxing gold, defeating her Chinese opponent in the women’s 60kg final.Lin beat Yang Chengyu (楊成宇) by a unanimous 5-0 decision at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, adding the 60kg title to her 57kg gold from Han
RUNWAY: Analysts said the first aircraft landing is expected by the middle of next year, while Chinese state media said it would serve civilian needs Chinese construction of a runway on Antelope Reef (Lingyang Reef, 羚羊礁) in the Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands, 西沙群島), is well under way with analysts estimating it could be completed by the middle of next year, strengthening Beijing’s military control over the disputed South China Sea.Satellite image
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung yesterday threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged a confidentiality agreement that Seoul says covered the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and issued an apology.“If the refusal to acknowledge the facts and issue a pu
QUALIFIED: The CGA needs someone familiar with maritime defense operations and the peacetime-wartime transition, making Yuan Sheng-hua the best person for the job Vice Admiral Yuan Sheng-hua (原聖華) yesterday became the first navy officer to be appointed a deputy director-general of the Coast Guard Administration (CGA), tasked with improving coordination between the navy and the agency amid intensifying maritime pressure from China.No active-duty navy officer h
TOUGH DIPLOMACY NEEDED: The officials criticized Donald Trump for rolling out the red carpet for counterpart Xi Jinping instead of confronting him on key issues Twenty-one US Democratic senators in a joint statement on Thursday last week urged US President Donald Trump to “immediately deliver congressionally approved defense assistance to Taiwan.”The statement followed Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).Those commitments include US$1.3
PREPARING FOR HIGHS: The ministry has been preparing for heat-related risks since 2024, and is planning for a 40?C global warming scenario, it said Heat management is the priority in climate adaptation globally, Deputy Minister of Environment Hsieh Yein-rui (謝燕儒) said yesterday, adding that the Ministry of Environment would assist other central agencies in identifying heat adaptation issues.Hsieh made the remarks at a public hearing on the draf
Marking its centennial yesterday, the Chinese Taipei Alpine Association (CTAA) issued a white paper on government policy, and called for Cabinet-level coordination mechanisms and amendments to policy gaps.The white paper, titled Mountain Taiwan White Paper (台灣國家山域治理政策白皮書), cited Control Yuan statist
NOT MADE IN TAIWAN: The oil was bottled and sold to the public under false labels stating that it was made from ‘100 percent Taiwanese native tea seeds,’ prosecutors said Taipei prosecutors yesterday indicted two people on charges of fraud, alleging that they used Chinese tea seeds to produce camellia oil that was falsely labeled as being entirely made from Taiwanese tea seeds.The two were Chen Chung Hsiu-hui (陳鐘秀惠), a business manager at Taipei-based Dynas Internati
The Railway Bureau has dismissed a suggestion that the new high-speed trains could be put into service ahead of schedule to ease capacity constraints, saying that the trains must pass all required tests before they can enter service.The first of 12 newly acquired high-speed trains arrived in Taiwan
Labor funds administered by the Ministry of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Funds totaled an aggregate gain of NT$366.7 billion (US$11.5 billion) in August, the fifth-largest monthly gain on record.The sizeable gain was driven by a global stock market rebound in August after tech shares struggled in July du
Workers at snack maker Kuai Kuai Co’s only production facility in Taiwan voted yesterday to continue their strike indefinitely following a one-day strike, as a dispute over the plant’s relocation and related labor arrangements remained unresolved.Around 130 members of the Kuai Kuai union, which
AGENCY COMMITMENTS: The CGA said it will continue to lawfully drive away vessels that cross Taiwanese borders, and carry out humanitarian assistance when needed The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday said it expelled two Chinese fishing boats that had entered Taiwan’s prohibited waters near Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島).At about 11am on Thursday, an unidentified boat was detected about 15.5 nautical miles northeast of Pratas Island, or 5.5
The donation of offshore patrol vessel Kinmen to the Philippines includes provisions that protect Taiwanese fishers and facilitate security cooperation across the First Island Chain, officials said yesterday.The comment was made during the Cabinet’s comprehensive administrative report at the legisla
F-16C/D Block 70 jets remain relevant in modern warfare even as drones are playing an increasingly prominent role, an expert said, citing their ability to conduct combat air patrols (CAPs) and threaten conventional surface warships, including Chinese aircraft carriers deployed in waters off Taiwan’s
DIVERGING TRENDS: Tech exporters stayed buoyant on robust AI demand, while textiles and transport weakened amid softer end-user demand and lower output Taiwan’s manufacturing sector flashed a “green” light, indicating stable growth, in August, retreating from “yellow-red” in July, as old-economy industries faced weaker end-user demand, the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER, 台經院) said on Friday.The August TIER composite index, which gauges
A Chinese financing company owned by several local government entities has funded the purchase of restricted Nvidia Corp chips, according to documents filed with Beijing regulators, suggesting state support for an illicit trade that Washington worries is fueling China’s AI progress.Over the past yea
RISK DEBATE: At least two of those dismissed are reported to have worked on safety and alignment, as industry warnings about advanced AI grew more urgent ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that it has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling “sensitive information” and violating company policies, including work that involved an external organization that evaluates artificial intelligence models.The San Francisco-based AI lab did not confi
The government yesterday began fully subsidizing an additional six days of paid marriage leave, extending it from eight days to 14.The Ministry of Labor’s Guidelines for Wage Subsidies for Marriage, Maternity and Paternity Leave under the Family-Friendly Workplace Program (友善育兒職場婚孕產假薪資補助要點) are part
Amid nationwide teacher shortages, elementary and junior-high schools across Taiwan have managed to get through the first month of the school year relatively smoothly.However, many schools are seeing the first waves of resignations from substitute teachers they painstakingly recruited over the summe
China prefers to win without firing a shot in its bid to strangle Taiwan’s strategic autonomy. Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (孫子) would have approved. Its central tool at sea is the “cabbage strategy”: the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) layers fishing boats, maritime militia, coa
SURPRISE ATTACK: Coach Maki Tsukada said that bite marks were visible despite Rin Maeda wearing protective tape on that part of her arm, causing concerns of bleeding Japanese judo officials said they had never seen anything like it after eventual champion Rin Maeda appeared to be bitten by her Chinese opponent at the Asian Games.Maeda was awarded victory in the quarter-final bout in Nagoya when Tang Jing was disqualified just over a minute into the contest.Tang
China’s Wang Xiyu, fresh from conquering top seed Alexandra Eala, toppled Zhang Shuai to win Asian Games women’s tennis singles gold yesterday — and a ticket to the Los Angeles Olympics.The 25-year-old Wang breezed past her compatriot 6-2, 6-1 in 66 minutes at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in N
Manchester City are expected to press ahead with an appeal against findings that they breached Premier League financial rules by yesterday’s deadline, opening a fresh chapter in a case that has already become one of the most significant in English soccer.The club has consistently denied wrongdoing,
The Nations League soccer match between Ireland and Austria in Dublin on Thursday was twice briefly interrupted by demonstrations in support of Palestine. In the 19th minute, spectators threw tennis balls covered in Palestinian flag stickers onto the field. The players left the pitch for a few minut
VOTER LIST CONTROVERSY: The youth-led movement, which forced the education minister to step down in July, is demanding the election commissioner’s resignation India’s “Cockroach” youth movement yesterday called for new protests in Mumbai to demand the resignation of the chief election commissioner over a contentious revision of voter lists.The movement, which began as an online campaign and now calls itself the Cockroach Janata Party, forced India’s educa
JUDICIAL REFORM Prosecutors have long been accused of exercising excessive power, but the move has raised concerns that it might create gaps and leave victims worse off South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has pushed through a sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system, stripping investigative powers from prosecutors he accuses of abusing their authority, including criminal cases against him before he took office.A revised law that came into force yesterday f
A US lawmaker has called on Starbucks to close its first stores in Xinjiang, China, calling it a “morally bankrupt decision” to do business in a region where Uighurs face repression.China denies widespread accusations about abuses of the Uighurs, a mainly Muslim people, saying its policies there wer
Speculation started to fly last month that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidates running in the November elections wanted to keep their distance from party Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文). That some in the KMT were concerned that Cheng’s firm ideological adherence to the “one China principle” is no se
Fangyuan Township (芳苑) in Changhua County is a quiet, unassuming setting, known for its wetlands, eco tours and trained sea-ox that transport the oyster harvest in carts. Topographically speaking, it’s also enormously diverse, boasting a proud tradition of aquaculture and an ecologically rich coastl
Van Gogh once said that he would starve himself to spend time with Rembrandt’s The Jewish Bride. “I should be happy to give 10 years of my life if I could go on sitting here in front of this picture for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food,” van Gogh said.The quote can be found at “O
Toxic chemicals from discarded electronic devices may be threatening endangered dolphins and porpoises in the South China Sea, according to a recent scientific study. Liquid crystal monomers (LCMs), chemicals widely used in smartphones, televisions and computer screens, were detected in several mari
A: In addition to the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test, some institutions also require staff to take the computer-based TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests. B: I didn’t know that there are oral and written tests. What does the oral exam cover?A: The categories include: Read a text aloud, Describe a pi
A: According to statistics of the 990-point TOEIC Listening and Reading Test, Taiwan’s score rose by 2 points to a new high of 583 points in 2025.B: It’s still far behind Asia’s “700-point Club” members: India, the Philippines and Malaysia, or the nearly 700-point South Korea.A: Why was the avera
| New Taipei City | 25-30 | 30% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 25-32 | 20% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 25-32 | 20% | |
| Taipei City | 25-30 | 30% | |
| Miaoli County | 23-33 | 20% | |
| Taoyuan City | 25-32 | 30% | |
| Keelung City | 25-29 | 30% |  |
| Yunlin County | 25-33 | 20% | |
| Taichung City | 26-33 | 20% | |
| Nantou County | 25-33 | 30% |  |
| Changhua County | 26-33 | 20% | |
| Chiayi County | 25-33 | 20% | |
| Chiayi City | 24-34 | 20% | |
| Tainan City | 27-32 | 20% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 27-32 | 20% | |
| Pingtung County | 26-33 | 30% | |
| Yilan County | 24-29 | 60% | |
| Hualien County | 24-31 | 30% | |
| Taitung County | 25-32 | 20% | |
| Kinmen County | 25-31 | 30% | |
| Penghu County | 26-31 | 30% | |
| Lienchiang County | 25-29 | 30% | |
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