[{"ar_sbhdtease":"REGIONAL PEACE: ","ar_byline":"By Lee I-chia","ar_views":"1696","ar_id":"2003830051","ar_sbhdbody":"The US is supporting Taiwan\u2019s self-defense capabilities by providing the nation with defensive arms and services, as it aims to maintain cross-strait stability","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-12","ar_head":"US affirms support for Taiwan defense","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"The US on Friday reiterated its support for Taiwan\u2019s self-defense capabilities in a statement affirming its commitment to the Indo-Pacific region.The White House said that Washington has supported Taiwan\u2019s self-defense capabilities through a range of security assistance authorities and resources, in","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/12\/2003830051","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830051","ph_attr":"Photo: Bloomberg ","ph_cap":"The US flag, left, and Republic of China flag are displayed in Taipei in an undated photograph.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/12","ph_fname":"p01-250112-taiwan.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/p01-250112-taiwan.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/thumbs\/p01-250112-taiwan.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Wu Po-hsuan and Esme Yeh","ar_views":"906","ar_id":"2003830052","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-12","ar_head":"Tech council aims for 480 petaflop computing speed","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) yesterday said it would lead the development of Taiwan\u2019s sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) by boosting the combined computing speed of the nation\u2019s supercomputers to 480 petaflops by 2029. AI sovereignty refers to a country\u2019s full autonomy over","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/12\/2003830052","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830052","ph_attr":"Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times","ph_cap":"The National Science and Technology Council logo is pictured at its headquarters in Taipei in an undated photograph.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/12","ph_fname":"p01-250112-tech.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/p01-250112-tech.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/thumbs\/p01-250112-tech.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"BREAKTHROUGH: ","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"3251","ar_id":"2003830053","ar_sbhdbody":"The US is making chips on par in yield and quality with Taiwan, despite people saying that it could not happen, the official said","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-12","ar_head":"TSMC has begun 4-nm chip production in US, official says","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, \u53f0\u7a4d\u96fb) has begun producing advanced 4-nanometer (nm) chips for US customers in Arizona, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, a milestone in the semiconductor efforts of the administration of US President Joe Biden. In November last year, the commerc","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/12\/2003830053","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830053","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"A logo of TSMC can be seen in Tainan on December 29, 2022.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/12","ph_fname":"p01-250112-332.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/p01-250112-332.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/thumbs\/p01-250112-332.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"546","ar_id":"2003830054","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-12","ar_head":"Los Angeles wildfire continues, 11 dead","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Californians on Friday demanded to know who is at fault for the vast devastation caused by the raging Los Angeles wildfires, as a strict curfew went into force to prevent looting and lawlessness.At least 11 people died as flames ripped through neighborhoods and razed thousands of homes in a disaster","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/12\/2003830054","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830054","ph_attr":"Photo: Getty Images\/AFP","ph_cap":"A view of homes destroyed by the wildfires that continue to burn through Los Angeles are pictured on Friday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/12","ph_fname":"p01-250112-329.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/p01-250112-329.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/thumbs\/p01-250112-329.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"571","ar_id":"2003830055","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-12","ar_head":"Japan to give high-speed patrol boats to Indonesia","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Japan is to give Indonesia two high-speed patrol boats, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said yesterday, as Tokyo seeks to boost regional maritime security cooperation in the face of growing assertiveness by China.Ishiba made the pledge during a visit to Jakarta, where he held talks with Indon","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/12\/2003830055","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830055","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, left, shakes hands with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto in Bogor, West Java, yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/12","ph_fname":"p01-250112-330.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/p01-250112-330.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/12\/thumbs\/p01-250112-330.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"AIR DEFENSE: ","ar_byline":"By Lo Tien-pin, Jonathan Chin and Lery Hiciano","ar_views":"4446","ar_id":"2003830010","ar_sbhdbody":"The Norwegian missile system has proved highly effective in Ukraine in its war against Russia, and the US has recommended it for Taiwan, an expert said","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-11","ar_head":"New missiles to be deployed in north","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"The Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) Taiwan ordered from the US would be installed in strategically important positions in Taipei and New Taipei City to guard the region, the Ministry of National Defense said in statement yesterday.The air defense system would be deployed i","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/11\/2003830010","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830010","ph_attr":"Photo: Screen grab from the Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace Web site","ph_cap":"A composite picture shows Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missiles Systems in an undated photograph.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/11","ph_fname":"p01-250111-mnd.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/p01-250111-mnd.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/thumbs\/p01-250111-mnd.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"COURT LEGISLATION: ","ar_byline":"By Hsieh Chun-lin and Jonathan Chin","ar_views":"1020","ar_id":"2003830011","ar_sbhdbody":"The Executive Yuan said it would consider its next steps to safeguard the constitutional order after its move to have court law changes revisited","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-11","ar_head":"Redo on amendments quashed","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Opposition lawmakers yesterday voted against the Executive Yuan\u2019s request to reconsider amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act (\u61b2\u6cd5\u8a34\u8a1f\u6cd5), an expected outcome that thwarted the executive branch\u2019s bid to overturn the bill.In a revote yesterday, lawmakers from the Chinese Nationalist Party ","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/11\/2003830011","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830011","ph_attr":"Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times","ph_cap":"Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers hold placards at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday celebrating a vote against reconsidering amendments to the Constitutional Court Act, while two Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers, front, hold placards expressing opposition to the KMT\u2019s stance.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/11","ph_fname":"p01-250111-006.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/p01-250111-006.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/thumbs\/p01-250111-006.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Lee Wen-hsin and Esme Yeh","ar_views":"1360","ar_id":"2003830012","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-11","ar_head":"Population declines after a record low year for births","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Taiwan\u2019s population last year dropped amid a record low 134,856 births, despite it being the Year of the Dragon, data from the Ministry of the Interior\u2019s Department of Household Registration showed yesterday.Dragons symbolize emperors in most of the Mandarin-speaking world and babies born in the Yea","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/11\/2003830012","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830012","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of Lee Women\u2019s Hospital","ph_cap":"Newborns sleep in a nursery at Lee Women\u2019s Hospital in Taichung on Oct. 10 last year.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/11","ph_fname":"p01-250111-005.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/p01-250111-005.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/thumbs\/p01-250111-005.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"680","ar_id":"2003830013","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-11","ar_head":"Outgoing US envoy to Japan criticizes China","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"China, North Korea and Iran are part of an \u201caxis of autocrats\u201d and the US and its allies are the \u201cthin blue line\u201d protecting democracy, the outgoing US ambassador to Japan said yesterday in a parting shot at Beijing.Rahm Emanuel has been a sharp critic of China\u2019s economic and geopolitical strategies","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/11\/2003830013","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830013","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"Outgoing US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel gestures at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/11","ph_fname":"p01-250111-323.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/p01-250111-323.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/thumbs\/p01-250111-323.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"562","ar_id":"2003830014","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-11","ar_head":"Donald Trump to be sentenced days before inauguration","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"US president-elect Donald Trump was to be sentenced yesterday, despite his efforts to delay the process, although the judge has indicated that Trump would not face prison.Trump had made an 11th-hour plea for a suspension of the criminal proceedings to the US Supreme Court after a New York State appe","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/11\/2003830014","photo":{"ar_id":"2003830014","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"US president-elect Donald Trump greets guests at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/11","ph_fname":"P01-250111-322.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/P01-250111-322.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/11\/thumbs\/P01-250111-322.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"UP TO NO. 12: ","ar_byline":"By Crystal Hsu","ar_views":"1226","ar_id":"2003829952","ar_sbhdbody":"TWSE chairman Sherman Lin said that the exchange has a target to bolster market capitalization to put Taiwan among the top 10 in the world this year","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-10","ar_head":"TWSE profit hits record NT$13.53bn","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"The Taiwan Stock Exchange\u2019s (TWSE) profit last year was a record NT$13.53 billion (US$410.75 million), TWSE chairman Sherman Lin (\u6797\u4fee\u9298) told a news conference in Taipei yesterday, adding that it aims to attract more listings and deepen financial inclusion this year.The results translate into earnings","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/10\/2003829952","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829952","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"A smartphone displaying Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co\u2019s (TSMC) stock price movement is pictured in front of the company\u2019s logo at a brokerage in Taipei on Dec. 2, 2024.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/10","ph_fname":"p01-250110-tsmc.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/p01-250110-tsmc.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/thumbs\/p01-250110-tsmc.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"\u2018POLITICAL MANEUVER\u2019: ","ar_byline":"By Chung Li-hua, Shih Hsiao-kuang and Lery Hiciano","ar_views":"1094","ar_id":"2003829953","ar_sbhdbody":"Legal experts said that the amendments undermine the separation of powers and hinder people\u2019s ability to seek redress over rights issues","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-10","ar_head":"Amendments greatest risk to Constitution: premier","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Recent amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act (\u61b2\u6cd5\u8a34\u8a1f\u6cd5) have the potential to do the most damage to the Constitution of any legislative effort, Premier Cho Jung-tai (\u5353\u69ae\u6cf0) told a post-Cabinet meeting news conference yesterday.The legislature is scheduled to vote today on whether to recons","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/10\/2003829953","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829953","ph_attr":"Photo: Lo Pei-de, Taipei Times","ph_cap":"Premier Cho Jung-tai speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/10","ph_fname":"p01-250110-004.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/p01-250110-004.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/thumbs\/p01-250110-004.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Shelley Shan","ar_views":"601","ar_id":"2003829954","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-10","ar_head":"MAC proposes court for national security-related cases","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"A special court is needed to handle national security-related cases following discoveries of extensive Chinese espionage operations, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.The council made the statement after seven retired Taiwanese military personnel, members of the Rehabilitation Allian","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/10\/2003829954","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829954","ph_attr":"Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times\r","ph_cap":"Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister and spokesman Liang Wen-chieh speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/10","ph_fname":"p01-250110-005.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/p01-250110-005.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/thumbs\/p01-250110-005.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"1031","ar_id":"2003829955","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-10","ar_head":"Iran condemns French city\u2019s \u2018insulting\u2019 poster","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Iran yesterday condemned an \u201cinsulting\u201d poster on a bus in a French city depicting Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reported.The city of Beziers in southern France had run a campaign on buses calling for selective sorting of waste using portraits of Khamenei, Russian Presid","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/10\/2003829955","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829955","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"A poster on a bus in Beziers, France, yesterday shows, from left, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a slogan that reads in French: \u201cDo not forget to sort your waste.\u201d","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/10","ph_fname":"p01-250110-333.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/p01-250110-333.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/thumbs\/p01-250110-333.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"562","ar_id":"2003829956","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-10","ar_head":"Israeli hostage\u2019s body recovered in Gaza by military","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in a tunnel in southern Gaza and the army was determining whether another set of remains belongs to the man\u2019s son, the Israeli military said on Wednesday.The discovery of Yosef AlZayadni\u2019s body came as Israel and Hamas are considering a ce","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/10\/2003829956","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829956","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"Children play in Rahat, Israel, yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/10","ph_fname":"p01-250110-332.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/p01-250110-332.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/10\/thumbs\/p01-250110-332.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS: ","ar_byline":"By Chang Jui-chen \nand Jason Pan ","ar_views":"3232","ar_id":"2003829891","ar_sbhdbody":"The suspects formed spy networks and paramilitary groups to kill government officials during a possible Chinese invasion, prosecutors said","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-09","ar_head":"Retired officers indicted over collusion","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Prosecutors have indicted seven retired military officers, members of the Rehabilitation Alliance Party, for allegedly obtaining funds from China, and forming paramilitary groups and assassination squads in Taiwan to collaborate with Chinese troops in a possible war. The suspects contravened the Nat","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/09\/2003829891","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829891","ph_attr":"Photo: screen grab from the Ministry of the Interior Web site","ph_cap":"The emblem of the Rehabilitation Alliance Party is pictured in an undated photograph.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/09","ph_fname":"P01-250109-003.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/P01-250109-003.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/thumbs\/P01-250109-003.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"CONFLICT RISK: ","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"1544","ar_id":"2003829892","ar_sbhdbody":"China\u2019s hostile actions toward Taiwan could \u2018precipitate a severe cross-strait crisis involving the United States,\u2019 the report said","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-09","ar_head":"Cross-strait war likelihood \u2018moderate,\u2019 survey shows","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"There is a \u201cmoderate\u201d likelihood of a cross-strait war this year that could have a \u201chigh\u201d impact on US interests, a survey by the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations said on Tuesday.\u201cIntensified military and economic pressure by China toward Taiwan\u201d is listed among other \u201ctop conflicts to wa","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/09\/2003829892","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829892","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"Two soldiers operate a CM-11 tank in a drill at a military base in Hsinchu County\u2019s Hukou Township on Tuesday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/09","ph_fname":"P01-250109-602.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/P01-250109-602.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/thumbs\/P01-250109-602.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Jonathan Chin","ar_views":"620","ar_id":"2003829893","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-09","ar_head":"Ministry touts bus electrification efforts","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"Taiwan last year electrified 25 percent of public buses serving urban areas, a milestone on the path to Taiwan achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday.The push to make public buses electric was part of a NT$64.3 billion (US$1.96 b","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/09\/2003829893","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829893","ph_attr":"Photo: CNA","ph_cap":"People watch a plane fly over their heads near Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) on Jan. 19 last year.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/09","ph_fname":"P01-250109-603.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/P01-250109-603.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/thumbs\/P01-250109-603.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"758","ar_id":"2003829894","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-09","ar_head":"Trump threatens Canada, Panama and Greenland","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"In the space of an hour, US president-elect Donald Trump called for absorbing Canada, declined to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland, demanded NATO allies spend 5 percent of GDP on defense and vowed \u201call hell would break loose\u201d in the Middle East if Hamas does not ","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/09\/2003829894","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829894","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"US president-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/09","ph_fname":"P01-250109-336.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/P01-250109-336.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/thumbs\/P01-250109-336.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"580","ar_id":"2003829895","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Front Page","ar_pubdate":"2025-01-09","ar_head":"People evacuated as wildfire grows in Los Angeles","dp_urlname":"front","ar_desc":"An uncontrolled wildfire is threatening densely populated Santa Monica, California, after ripping through an affluent area of Los Angeles, with strong winds grounding firefighting aircraft overnight and fueling other blazes. Mandatory evacuation orders have been expanded to parts of northern Santa M","ar_url":"News\/front\/archives\/2025\/01\/09\/2003829895","photo":{"ar_id":"2003829895","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"A home is engulfed in flames in Los Angeles County yesterday.","ph_fpath":"2025\/01\/09","ph_fname":"P01-250109-335.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/P01-250109-335.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2025\/01\/09\/thumbs\/P01-250109-335.jpg"}}]