DRONE CENTRAL: Taiwan aims to become Asia’s democratic hub for drones, with most exports focused on high-quality military-grade models, an official said
Taiwan’s drone industry is expected to expand significantly by 2030, producing 100,000 units per month and exporting half of them, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.Current drone production capacity is about 15,000 units per month, but the industry can quickly scale up as demand increa
PROMOTING SAFE CHAT: Government agencies must complete AI risk assessments by July and issue internal control rules within a year, Premier Cho Jung-tai said
The Executive Yuan yesterday announced the establishment of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy Special Committee, which is to promote and oversee AI affairs and implement the Artificial Intelligence Basic Act (人工智慧基本法).The National Science and Technology Council is to draw up nationa
POWERHOUSE: The investment is to be made ‘across the Taiwan ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging capabilities for AI infrastructure’
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), a US maker of artificial intelligence (AI) processors and a rival to the world’s most valuable company, Nvidia Corp, yesterday announced an investment of more than US$10 billion into Taiwan’s chip industry.The company said investments would be made “across the Taiwa
The Ministry of Education is considering establishing the Taiwan Advanced Academy of Science, with recruitment to be managed jointly by Academia Sinica and the nation’s top four universities.The policy echoes President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments at the National Chair Professorship Award Ceremony i
Philippine Secretary of Justice Fredderick Vida yesterday ordered law enforcement to apprehend Philippine Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after the Philippine Supreme Court denied his bid to prevent his arrest.Dela Rosa, a former police
US prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro over the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles as the White House escalated pressure on the nation’s socialist government.The indictment accuses Castro of ordering the military to
SPEAKING UP: If he had the opportunity to talk with Trump, Lai said he would tell the US president that China was undermining peace in the region
The future of Taiwan must not be decided by external forces nor can it be held hostage by fear, division or short-term gain, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday in an address marking the second anniversary of his inauguration.Speaking at the Presidential Office, Lai said democracy is the most
NATIONAL CHALLENGES: The government aims to encourage young people to marry and start families, and help people balance their careers and family life, Lai said
President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday announced that the government would provide a NT$5,000 (US$158) monthly allowance for every person aged 18 or younger as part of a new strategic response to the nation’s declining birthrate, along with new subsidies to help small businesses and traditional indus
US President Donald Trump yesterday said he would speak to President William Lai (賴清德) as his administration considers whether to move ahead with a US$14 billion weapons sale to Taiwan — a potential arms deal that has drawn criticism from China.“Well, I’ll speak to him. I speak to everybody,” Trump
Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), a novel by Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi (楊?子) and translated into English by Lin King (金翎), has won this year’s International Booker Prize, becoming the first Taiwanese work to win the award.The win, announced on Tuesday in London, came after Lin’s translation of the no
Samsung Electronics Co reached a tentative deal with its labor union late last night, averting what had threatened to be a crippling strike at the world’s largest memorychip maker.“Labor and management have reached a tentative agreement on wages and the collective bargaining agreement,” the South Ko
China and Russia yesterday condemned US President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield plans and Washington’s “irresponsible” nuclear policy at a joint summit, a week after Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) hosted Trump in Beijing.A statement from Xi and Russian President Vladimir Pu
President William Lai (賴清德) today addressed the nation to mark the second anniversary of his inauguration and 30 years of democracy in Taiwan, speaking on national security amid growing global threats and future economic and social development. Taiwan’s future cannot be decided by forces beyond its
INCENTIVES: The Cabinet is to review next week the ‘0-to-18 full support’ policy covering childbirth, child-rearing and education before an official announcement
Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) yesterday unveiled a broad package of family support measures, including expanded parental leave and housing tax incentives for parents, as part of the government’s efforts to address a declining birthrate.Speaking at a Cabinet news conference ahead of the second anniversa
‘WASTE OF TIME’: The result was a foregone conclusion, as the opposition parties and their allies did not have the required two-thirds of the vote for the motion to pass
A motion initiated by opposition parties to impeach President William Lai (賴清德) failed to meet the constitutional threshold in the legislature yesterday.The opposition-controlled legislature voted 56-50 in favor of impeachment, but the 56 votes fell short of the 76 required for the motion to succeed
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday confirmed the nation’s first case of mpox clade Ib and another case of hantavirus in northern Taiwan.Two new cases of mpox were confirmed this month: a local case involving a man in his 40s in northern Taiwan and an imported case involving a man in his
The WHO yesterday convened a meeting of its emergency committee amid an urgent search for vaccines and medicines to combat a widening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.The WHO was to consult the committee for “temporary recommendations” on dealing with the rare Bundib
Indonesian authorities, including the military, used online disinformation campaigns to brand activists and journalists as “foreign agents” and silence dissent, sometimes leading to physical threats, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday.Amnesty’s findings reflect growing concern
Lawmakers this morning cast their ballots in the first presidential impeachment vote in Taiwan’s constitutional history, failing to garner enough votes to further impeachment proceedings against President William Lai (賴清德).The motion failed to reach the required two-thirds supermajority out of the t
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