Mon, Oct 12, 2026
PATROL PARTNERS: The ‘Chiayi’ and the ‘Penghu’ departed for a two-day joint patrol of Palau’s exclusive economic zone, the CGA’s second diplomatic visit to the country The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) set a record for its southernmost deployment of a coast guard vessel as the vessels Chiayi and the Penghu reached Palau’s Pulo Anna Island on Saturday in a cooperative exercise between the two countries.The island, about 217 nautical miles (401km) southwest of Ko
Taiwan is expanding the Military Police Command’s mission from policing to also include combat operations and drastically increasing the size of its forces, disclosures from the Ministry of National Defense (MND) showed.The military police would be expanded from 5,600 troops to 11,000 troops, the mi
Saudi Arabia yesterday kept its main international airport closed and moved Riyadh schools online as Yemen’s Houthi rebels threatened new airstrikes across the kingdom, a day after a missile attack killed 12 people and wounded more than 300.Saturday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in R
Only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday as he vowed to press ahead with strikes on Russian oil refineries, despite criticism from US President Donald Trump, who blamed him for high diesel prices and said he should be replaced.The exch
‘SALT AND LIGHT’: Taiwan is built ‘atop a chain of mountains that is the splendid outcome of democratic governance,’ he said in remarks opposed by China President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday urged Taiwan to become a “city upon a hill” amid authoritarian expansion and global upheaval, adding that Taiwan cherishes peace, but will not give up its freedom.“In this era marked by war, authoritarian expansion and a rapidly shifting global order, what kind
BATCH 1: The military has plans to assign the weapons to the army to defend Taiwan proper, as well as outlying islands and the navy for the Marine Corps, the official said Taiwan is to receive 500 Stinger missiles and 178 launchers from the US by the end of the year, the first batch under a planned two-stage acquisition totaling 2,621 missiles and 763 launchers, a defense official said yesterday on condition of anonymity.The portable missiles would play a vital role i
OPEN THE GATES: Taiwan’s and Japan’s futures are linked and Japan should work with Taiwan on drones, the former Japanese ground forces chief of staff said Japan should include Taiwan among the destinations eligible for arms sales, former chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Kiyofumi Iwata said at a conference in Taipei yesterday.Japan had abolished restrictions on arms sales, allowing it to provide weapons to 17 countries with which i
A military-use quadruped robot dog was presented at the Taiwan-Japan Future Technology Forum in Taipei yesterday, by the event’s organizer, the Indo-Pacific Strategy Thinktank.The robot is built on the Vision 60 platform developed by US-based Ghost Robotics, which has been adopted by the US Marine C
DIFFERING VIEWPOINTS: The KMT head said that the party has attempted to pursue stable cross-strait relations and ease tensions, contrary to the DPP’s efforts Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government in an interview of championing Taiwan’s identity while depriving Taiwan of its ability to shape its own future, saying that Taiwan should pursue peace and propose practical solutio
USEFUL BIRDS: The pair of donated UH-1H Huey helicopters have been used for medevac flights, King Mswati III said as he toured a flight center King Mswati III of Eswatini yesterday thanked Taiwan for its donation of military helicopters to the African kingdom as he toured a flight training center in Tainan accompanied by President William Lai (賴清德).Mswati arrived in Taiwan on Friday last week for his 20th visit to the country since he was
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) held his first campaign motorcade in the capital yesterday, while incumbent Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) urged Shen’s camp to discuss arrangements for a televised election debate or debates.
FAMILY PRESSURES: Economic-abuse entries rose to 362 last year, with an official saying that such cases often involve psychological and physical violence More than 26,000 cases of domestic violence against elderly people were reported last year, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed, highlighting the need to protect Taiwan’s 4.67 million people aged 65 or older.Reports of suspected domestic violence against elderly people rose to 26,684 cases la
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) is developing standardized educational materials for pet care professionals to ensure quality of training across institutions, and plans to work with the Ministry of Labor to introduce a pet care technician certificate, an MOA official said.The growing pet market is
OVERSIGHT: An increase in inspections led to more closures or the listing of unlicensed lodgings for monitoring, with 988 inspections in Taipei There were 1,600 unlicensed lodgings across Taiwan in the first nine months of this year, while accommodation-sector fines totaled NT$143.389 million (US$4.5 million), Tourism Administration data showed.Currently, 3,270 general hotels are operating nationwide, a slight decline from the same period l
The Philippines yesterday opened its largest overseas Filipino worker (OFW) service center in Taipei, with hopes of establishing two more in central and southern Taiwan over the next two years, the country’s Overseas Workers Welfare Administration said.The OFW Global Center-Taipei is the third such
INFRINGEMENT: The investigation comes after a complaint from Vicor Corp, with the company seeking a limited exclusion order as well as cease-and-desist orders, the ITA said The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched a Section 337 investigation naming Taiwanese technology companies, including Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海), Delta Electronics Inc (台達電) and Quanta Computer Inc (廣達), as respondents. The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) pledged assist
SPEED UP: Taiwan should expand power generation capacity and upgrade its grid to meet demand, Frank Grunert said, and use renewable power to build resilience Taiwan is known for its strength in hardware manufacturing, but new European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan (ECCT) chairman Frank Grunert sees considerable potential in software as well.A hardware engineer typically starts with a defined product and works backward through the steps needed to build it, G
A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw (廖益賢) of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips to China in violation of US export controls pleaded guilty, court documents said.Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun (孫廷瑋), a former outside contractor described by US authorities as a
With the Taipei mayoral election quickly heating up, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an’s (蔣萬安) campaign team has finally started to get serious this month, but a major mudslinging initiative and several sloppy mistakes have drawn a larger wave of public criticism, while sporadic municipal issues continue t
Taiwan might just give up. That’s the argument Simon Shuster made in The Atlantic’s October issue. The US is unreliable, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) leadership is aligned with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Taiwan does not have the military capability to defend itself in a prolonged
The number of trees does not necessarily determine how much shade a city has. The most important factor for street shade, urban cooling and the quality of public spaces is the canopy cover built up over years of growth. When mature trees disappear, planting replacements does not immediately restore
SHOCK KNOCKOUT: US Open finalist Ben Shelton was caught off-guard by Arthur Gea yesterday, after skipping the Japan Open, which ended last week, due to fitness concerns Daniil Medvedev has won his first match since being disqualified at the China Open for hitting a spectator in the eye with a ball he hit into the stands.Medvedev beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on Saturday at the Shanghai Masters, an ATP 1000 tennis event.Medvedev, who
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer gave away the Bundesliga’s fastest ever goal, Rayo Vallecano fans forced their La Liga game to be suspended and Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior was sent off for yanking the hair of an opponent on Saturday.Arsenal also got a win to keep their lead as Europe’s na
Karl-Anthony Towns has been traded from Minnesota, lost the conference finals and won the NBA title for his childhood team — and still feels he is in the period of grief that began six years ago.Just 10 days before the New York Knicks’ banner-raising celebration, the All-Star big man marked World Me
France’s rising cycling talent Paul Seixas made history at the Tour de Lombardy when he became its youngest winner ever on Saturday after riders protested safety concerns.The 20-year-old Seixas broke away with about 20km left to win the one-day race in northern Italy that had been dominated by the c
LONG WAIT: Palestinians have not held a legislative election since 2006, when Hamas won a majority of seats, resulting in a boycott by Israel and other Western countries Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year.Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pushes the
GREEN CONCERNS: Environmental advocates have warned that more commercial shipping along the Northern Sea Route could threaten the Arctic’s ecosystem A South Korean container ship yesterday returned from a trial voyage through the Arctic, testing an alternative route opened by melting sea ice as conflict in the Middle East disrupts global shipping.The PanStar Acro made the round trip to Europe in less time than the conventional route through the
Hurricane Simon strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm and was expected to make landfall or skirt the coast of west-central Mexico yesterday, the US National Hurricane Center said.Fluctuations in strength are expected until the core of Simon reaches the coast, with a maximum wind speed of 249
Cognitive warfare, says the Ministry of National Defense (MND), is the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) use of “political, economic, cultural, military and legal means, with the intent to divide internal unity and undermine social stability” in Taiwan. Last week offered several examples.PRC media
Oct. 12 to Oct. 18 After 11 years in prison on Green Island, Yen Shih-hung (顏世鴻) was finally due for release when a camp guard asked him for NT$20,000 to help pay his bride price.Yen refused. The next day, officials deemed that he had “failed to improve his thinking” and ordered him to under
Every day, Shanti Dangol stares down at Nepal’s Trishuli River from her makeshift shelter, searching for traces of the home she lost and wondering when she will have a roof over her head again.Dangol is among hundreds of people living in tent shelters following a catastrophic Himalayan flood trigger
1. 他手術醒來時並不覺得痛。ˇ He felt no pain when he awoke from surgery.χ He felt painless when he awoke from surgery.註：painless 是「無痛的」、「不使人感覺痛苦的」，用於事物，如 painless death（善終）。說人覺得痛或痛苦，須用 to feel a pain；說人不覺得痛或痛苦，該用 to feel no pain。2. 恐懼與自我懷疑是創意的死敵。ˇ Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity.χ Fear
Continued from yesterday（延續自昨日）https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/langThe kiwi is about the size of a chicken and is full of surprises. Kiwi pairs are famously loyal and often mate for life. They share the same burrow and raise their chicks together. Even more astonishing is the size of the kiwi’s egg
What animal looks like a bird, acts like a mouse, and sounds like the name of a fruit? Meet the kiwi. Native to New Zealand, the kiwi has tiny wings, furry-looking feathers and a long beak, making it strangely cute. Still, it has become one of the nation’s best-known symbols.Evolution had a hand in
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