taipeitimes.comadded August 2026
Taipei Times14d ago
Responses from mayoral candidates for Taipei and New Taipei City invited to attend a series of forums hosted by a coalition of youth and student organizations next month have been mixed, the groups...
Taipei Times14d ago
Prosecutors yesterday indicted two Chinese for illegally entering Taiwan after sailing across the Taiwan Strait on a rubber dinghy, recommending that each be sentenced to two years in prison.
Taipei Times14d ago
Taiwan has upgraded its maritime patrol capacity around the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島) in the disputed South China Sea, including regularly sending larger ships there, the government...
Taipei Times14d ago
Ocean Affairs Council (OAC) Minister Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) on Wednesday said decommissioned coast guard vessels were given to the Philippines to enhance regional rescue capacity and would not affect...
Taipei Times14d ago
Foundation for Defense of Democracies China Program chair Matt Pottinger yesterday praised Taiwan for taking “creative and resilient” steps to maintain a secure communications environment.
Taipei Times14d ago
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a three-year, NT$3.6 billion (US$113.28 million) plan to increase the number of safety personnel at junior-high schools to 2,000 from 620.
Taipei Times14d ago
The Taiwan Go Go political alliance yesterday called for greater electoral transparency, saying that 107 of the 14,100 candidates for borough and village wardens have criminal records.
Taipei Times14d ago
Taiwan has completed production of all 66 domestically developed Brave Eagle (勇鷹) advanced jet trainers (AJT), with Aerospace Industrial Development Corp (AIDC) chairman Tsao Chin-pin (曹進平)...
Taipei Times14d ago
An OpenAI agent breached an Australian government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, Australia said yesterday, in what could be the first known instance of an...
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A US federal judge early yesterday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their...
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Four US Senate Republicans as well as a bipartisan group of US representatives wrote letters to the White House on Wednesday calling on the administration to uphold US commitments to supply Taiwan...
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Taiwan yesterday thanked eight European and Indo-Pacific countries for opposing unilateral changes to the “status quo” in the Taiwan Strait in a joint statement earlier this week, as well as three...
Taipei Times14d ago
Taiwan’s minimum monthly wage is set to rise to NT$30,900 next year from NT$29,500, exceeding NT$30,000 for the first time following a decision yesterday by the Ministry of Labor’s Minimum Wage...
Taipei Times15d ago
A vendor selling handmade baskets waits for customers at an exhibition organized to promote locally grown agricultural produce in Sana’a, Yemen, yesterday.
Taipei Times15d ago
TCC Group Holdings Co’s (台泥企業) board of directors has approved a plan for the company’s Dutch subsidiary to acquire Ukrainian cement company Ivano-Frankivskcement (IFCEM) and three other companies...
Taipei Times15d ago
Taiwan’s economy is heading for its strongest growth in decades as the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom drives a surge in technology exports and investment, moving the Asian Development...
Taipei Times15d ago
Solar cell and module supplier United Renewable Energy Co (URE, 聯合再生) yesterday said its US revenue would double next year, mainly benefiting from a market realignment fueled by US solar reshoring...
Taipei Times15d ago
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has increased its forecast of Taiwan’s drone industry output to about NT$50 billion (US$1.57 billion) by 2030 from an earlier estimate of NT$40 billion, thanks to...
Taipei Times15d ago
Taiwan’s industrial production last month set a new record, with the index soaring more than 23 percent from a year earlier due to robust global demand for artificial intelligence (AI)...
Taipei Times15d ago
Taiwanese airlines are turning to culture and cuisine to enhance their flying experience, with Tigerair Taiwan unveiling a National Palace Museum-themed aircraft ahead of its 12th anniversary this...
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