Wed, Aug 12, 2026
Visiting Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Godwin Friday yesterday pledged that his new administration is ready to usher in a “next chapter” in the two countries’ 45-year diplomatic relationship, while calling for increased Taiwanese investment to strengthen bilateral ties.Speaking at
ULTIMATUM: The legislative speaker said Fu Kun-chi should either come to the meeting, authorize his deputy to make decisions or resign as caucus whip Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) yesterday lambasted Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) for failing to attend cross-caucus negotiations and suggested that Fu step down from the position if he continued to miss meetings.The Legislative Yuan yesterday afternoon met to dis
Colombian volunteers and rescuers yesterday cleared rubble with their bare hands to search for survivors after the country’s strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 169 people and smashed dozens of buildings.The magnitude 7.4 quake struck cities across Colombia’s western region shortly afte
Australia and Vietnam yesterday agreed to deepen military cooperation and support the free flow of essential trade as the two nations’ leaders met in Canberra, with both sides expressing concern over policies that threaten to disrupt global supply chains.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese an
CHINESE THREAT: The military also simulated repelling an attack on Penghu and transporting military vehicles from Hualien to Yilan to reinforce defenses in the north The government yesterday slowed mobile Internet coverage for a large swathe of the central part of Taiwan proper for the first time during annual war games, simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster.Taiwan, which has long lived with the threat of a Chin
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reportedly set four priorities for its Taiwan policy at its Beidaihe (北戴河) summer meeting, including opposing “Taiwanese independence” and supporting “patriotic forces” in Taiwan’s November nine-in-one local elections, an official said yesterday.The two-week Bei
The Dadaocheng Summer Festival is to conclude on Saturday evening with a 20-minute show featuring an eight-minute fireworks display and a Spider-Man-themed drone light show, the Taipei Department of Information and Tourism said today.The event, scheduled to begin at 8pm ahead of the upcoming Qixi Fe
Taoyuan is to expand its free milk program to include junior-high students beginning with the school year that commences on Aug. 31, the Taoyuan City Government announced today.With the addition of about 67,000 junior-high students, the program is to benefit about 280,000 students ages two to 15, fr
A drunk passenger was removed from a China Airlines flight bound for Amsterdam last night after he allegedly harassed a woman seated next to him, delaying the flight from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport by nearly two hours, the Aviation Police Bureau said today.China Airlines flight CI73 from T
The government should better inform the public about the mobile Internet slowdown drills, being held this week as part of ongoing urban resilience exercises, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus said today. The 30-minute mobile slowdown drill in central and northern Taiwan, held on Monday and
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) today warned of temperatures reaching 36°C in parts of Taiwan, while the southwestern part of the main island faces the threat of heavy rain as unstable weather persists through the week.The CWA issued an orange heat alert for parts of Taipei and New Taipei C
In their meeting earlier this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) told Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) that he was “not interested” in a war with Taiwan, the KMT leader said in an interview with Time magazine published yesterday. Xi wanted to show not only Taiwan,
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) today called for party unity, downplaying a fiery outburst the day before by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), who suggested that Fu resign as whip over his repeated absences from budget negotiations."Family harmony brings prosperity,
The K-12 Education Administration is promoting gender equality education in preschools to help children understand bodily autonomy, respect each other’s differences and challenge gender stereotypes.Early childhood is an important stage for developing children’s sense of self and social behavior, K-1
China’s navy yesterday said it is to conduct a joint drill with Indonesia in the waters east of Taiwan later this month.Type 054A frigate Honghe is to hold a navigation exercise with a frigate from Indonesia’s navy in the middle of this month, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said in a state
INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION: The company is thinking of home and abroad, with capacity expansion under way in Taoyuan, Vietnam and two plants in Texas Compal Electronics Inc (仁寶電腦) yesterday said it expects artificial intelligence (AI) servers to account for 30 to 40 percent of revenue next year, up from about 10 percent this year, as it expands production capacity in Taiwan, the US and Vietnam.In the first quarter, server revenue was NT$10 billio
EXPANSION PLANNING: The new chip-packaging plant near Douliou should create more than a thousand new jobs at launch, and more than 2,000 jobs at full capacity Siliconware Precision Industries Co (SPIL, 矽品精密) commenced construction yesterday of a new NT$100 billion (US$3.1 billion) chip-packaging plant in Yunlin County’s Douliou City (斗六) to scale up capacity amid artificial intelligence (AI)-driven supply bottlenecks.The Taichung-based company plans to o
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday said its board of directors has approved investment of ￥282 billion (US$1.77 billion) to form a joint venture with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp to develop and manufacture next-generation image sensors for smartphones in Japan.The joint
Taiwan aims to align with global energy trends by proposing to require heavy industrial power users build dedicated power-generation capacity or install energy-storage systems, a critical step in the nation’s efforts to bolster power resilience and safeguard supply stability amid the artificial inte
Three days can reveal a great deal about diplomacy. Representative to Japan Lee I-yang (李逸洋) on Thursday last week attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, seated in the area for diplomatic representatives. Three days later, he declined to attend the Nagasaki ceremony after the Taiwanese dele
President William Lai (賴清德) on Thursday last week stood at a loading area at the Port of Taipei to watch soldiers from the army’s 53rd Engineer Group rehearse mine deployment. The demonstration, staged on the second day of the annual Han Kuang exercises, was meant to signal that Taiwan takes mine wa
DUBIOUS DEFENDER: The US president, who received a made-up peace award from Infantino last year, took to social media to fire back at those baying for his blood US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be “a terrible mistake” to replace Gianni Infantino, the embattled FIFA president who tried, and failed, to sell off part of the World Cup to private investors.Infantino came under renewed fire in an open letter signed by three confederations — Europ
WHITE-HOT SPOTLIGHT: For US athletes, winning gold on home soil could be monumental, as many ‘retired’ athletes consider picking it up once again For those who have competed — or nearly competed — under the Olympic rings, the fear of missing out the next time the Games beckon is real, regardless of the venue, regardless of the sport.Athletes who try to run it back following a lengthy sabbatical or retirement is hardly new. The list is filled
Sharks coach JP Pietersen has defended his decision to pick All Blacks great Ma’a Nonu to play against New Zealand.“His name says it all,” Pietersen said on Monday, the day before the Sharks host the All Blacks’ second tour match at Kings Park.The 44-year-old Nonu arrived at the Sharks only last wee
Three years after his last cap for South Africa and two years after an ACL injury he thought would end his career, Deon Fourie is back in the Springboks.Fourie, turning 40 next month, was summoned by South Africa on Monday and set to join the squad yesterday in Johannesburg to prepare for the four-m
‘CEREMONIAL ROLE’: Former Supreme Court chief Andras Baka was nominated on Saturday by the ruling party, which has the two-thirds majority required for his election Hungarian lawmakers were yesterday expected to elect former Supreme Court chief Andras Baka, who was fired under former prime minister Viktor Orban, as the nation’s next head of state.The post became vacant following the contested removal last month of the previous president, an Orban ally, as pro-E
A Chinese rocket carrying a communications satellite failed in its launch, state media said, attributing the failure to a “flight anomaly” as reports and videos suggested the spacecraft had exploded in mid-air.Beijing has plowed billions of dollars into its space program in the past few years to ach
The WHO yesterday defended the science-based process used to determine childhood immunisation schedules after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccinations in the US.Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for a reduc
The trope of the Angry Young Man was not born in a kitchen, but Anthony Bourdain’s particular myth-making created what might be the prototype for fin de (20th) siecle masculinity. As the director of Tony, the new biopic of Bourdain focusing on his first job, has said, the film is about “a magical wo
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” — or, as ano
When Gary Melyan, a longtime Taiwan resident who died on July 7 at age 83, arrived in Taipei for the second time in 1971, he was a graduate student trying to complete a doctoral thesis on the Taiping Rebellion. Wanting to assemble some fellow academics for a regular meal, he initiated a Saturday lun
As the July sun beats down on Taiwan, the heat inevitably pushes us toward lightweight T-shirts. Interestingly, thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks lived under similar skies and also dressed for the weather. Around the bright Aegean Sea, the ancient Greeks favored the air circulation and fre
A technique that allows developers to shrink powerful artificial intelligence models into cheaper, more efficient systems has become the latest battleground in the intensifying US-China race for AI dominance.Known as model distillation, the method uses the outputs of a powerful AI system to train a
對話 Dialogue清清：最近我發現有些商店開始準備拜拜的用品了。Qīngqing: Zuìjìn wǒ fāxiàn yǒuxiē shāngdiàn kāishǐ zhǔnbèi bàibài de yòngpǐn le華華：因為農曆七月快到了，很多家庭都會準備普渡。Huáhua: Yīnwèi nónglì qī yuè kuài dào le, hěn duō jiātíng dōu huì zhǔnbèi pǔdù.清清：我還聽長輩說，鬼月有一些事情最好不要做。Qīngqing: Wǒ hái tīng zhǎngbèi shuō, Guǐyuè yǒu yìxiē shìqing
| New Taipei City | 32-36 | 20% |  |
| Hsinchu County | 32-34 | 20% |  |
| Hsinchu City | 32-34 | 20% | |
| Taipei City | 32-36 | 30% |  |
| Miaoli County | 31-34 | 20% | |
| Taoyuan City | 32-35 | 20% | |
| Keelung City | 31-34 | 30% | |
| Yunlin County | 30-35 | 30% | |
| Taichung City | 32-35 | 30% | |
| Nantou County | 31-35 | 30% | |
| Changhua County | 32-35 | 30% | |
| Chiayi County | 30-35 | 30% | |
| Chiayi City | 30-35 | 50% | |
| Tainan City | 30-32 | 30% | |
| Kaohsiung City | 30-32 | 30% | |
| Pingtung County | 30-34 | 50% | |
| Yilan County | 30-34 | 50% | |
| Hualien County | 31-33 | 20% | |
| Taitung County | 31-34 | 20% | |
| Kinmen County | 30-32 | 20% | |
| Penghu County | 30-32 | 30% | |
| Lienchiang County | 30-32 | 20% |  |
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