EVA Air to raise excess baggage fees on Sept. 29 - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
EVA Airways Corp is to raise excess baggage fees and revise other international baggage charges beginning on Sept.
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top 52%Drone operators fined NT$16 million - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
Authorities fined drone operators a total of NT$16 million (US$505,849) in 72 cases last year and the first half of this year, with more than 80 percent of the contraventions occurring at airports...
KMT and TPP halt election cooperation amid Jhubei spat - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday said it would halt all electoral cooperation with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in Hsinchu County, after the allied opposition parties refused to...
Army’s second nationwide brigade-level exercise to run for 10 days - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
The second edition of the Army’s nationwide brigade-level force-on-force exercise next month will take place over 10 days instead of seven, a military source said yesterday.
Gwangju biennale opens after naming controversy - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
Taiwanese artists and curators on Saturday welcomed the opening of the Gwangju Biennale’s Pavilion Project’s “Taiwan Pavilion,” following a naming controversy that led to China’s withdrawal from...
Taiwanese in Canada push for UN inclusion - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
Members of the Taiwanese community in Vancouver have joined this year’s “UN for Taiwan” campaign with a car formation visible from the air to demonstrate their support ahead of the 81st session of...
Chinese grooms near a 19-year high in Taiwan - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
The number of Chinese men — excluding those from Hong Kong and Macau — applying to come to Taiwan through marriage since 2023 has reached a nearly 19-year high of 1,508, government data show.
US envoys hold talks with Zelenskiy on first Kyiv visit - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff held talks yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on ending the war with Russia, making their first visit to Kyiv a day after meeting with...
Indonesia cancels flights at airports as volcano erupts - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupted early yesterday, prompting the cancelation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as...
Single-person households rise to 40.5% nationwide - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
The number of single-person households nationwide reached about 3,993,100 last year, accounting for 40.5 percent of all registered households, Ministry of the Interior data showed.
Taiwan eyes silicon photonics as next big tech leap - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
Taiwan, which accounts for more than half of the global outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing market, is well-positioned to develop copackaged optics (CPO) and manufacture precision silicon...
Military budgets more arms production - Taipei Times
Taipei Times7 Sept 2026
The military is significantly expanding domestic production capacity to improve self-sufficiency in equipment and ammunition during wartime, the Ministry of National Defense’s proposed budget for...
Inclusive education is failing at schools - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
Early last month, an incoming junior-high school student in Taichung with discipline issues allegedly attacked a teacher with a broom, with the teacher at risk of losing sight in one eye from the...
Shanghai summit exposes cracks - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
The 25th anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Bishkek on Monday and Tuesday.
Hualien County and vote-buying - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
In an interview with Formosa TV on Saturday last week, former Financial Times Taiwan correspondent Kathrin Hille talked about the state of democracy where she lives in rural Hualien County.
EDITORIAL: Cheng Li-wun in a China shop - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) has had a tough week on the campaign trail in support of her party’s candidates for November’s local elections.
El Nino-driven drought slams Sri Lankan farms - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
For the first time in more than three decades, Sri Lankan farmer AM Pathmasena says, his well is running so dry that it barely provides enough water for his family and two cows.
Venezuelans skeptical of US oil deal reshaping their future - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
Nothing has shaped what it means to be Venezuelan today more than oil. For more than 100 years, in good times and bad, Venezuelans’ identity has been built on the belief that their country’s...
US millers look to old ways as buyers look for healthier options - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
In a country better known for industrial farming, highly processed food and suspiciously long-lasting bread, Chuck Childers rises before dawn and trudges off to operate one of the US’ oldest...
Taiwanese dessert - Taipei Times
Taipei Times6 Sept 2026
People pose for a photograph with halal-certified peanut ice cream rolls in front of the Taiwan pavilion at the Malaysia International Travel Mart fair that opened in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.