taipeitimes.comadded August 2026
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Americans attending a Taiwan tourism promotion at a Southern California shopping center on Saturday praised the island for its friendly people, convenient lifestyle and safety.
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Taitung County has the highest forest coverage nationwide, but has insufficient urban green cover, Minister of Environment Peng Chi-ming (彭?明) said yesterday, adding that urban forests could...
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Taiwan Railway Corp’s new station in Tainan is scheduled to open on Oct. 17 as part of a project to shift the mainline rail infrastructure in the city underground, the Railway Bureau under the...
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Four members of a family were killed in a fire at a building materials store in Yilan County late on Saturday, local authorities said yesterday.
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The Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted a soldier on a charge of disobeying orders after he allegedly refused to go to sleep or get out of bed, seeking a heavy sentence.
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A local public health study found that methadone maintenance treatment and needle and syringe programs are highly cost-effective in reducing HIV transmission, Centers for Disease Control (CDC)...
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) and Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) continued to clash over drug policy...
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Civic groups yesterday protested what they called the police’s excessively forceful raid on a Taipei gay bar on Saturday, calling on police to apologize, protect marginalized groups and stop...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) would intensify “gray zone” activities around Taiwan during his fourth term, further undermining regional stability, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu...
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The opening of a joint air support center in Laos is part of China’s decades-long power-projection efforts to extend its influence into the Indian Ocean, a Taiwanese defense expert said yesterday.
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Four more people have been reported missing in China, bringing the total number of Taiwanese who have been reported missing, detained for questioning or suspected of having their freedom of...
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Fundamental differences between the US and China make major disputes difficult to resolve, but create an opportunity for Taipei to deepen economic and security ties with Washington, China expert...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) late on Saturday arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, to begin a three-day visit, including the opening of Taiwan’s new representative office, the Ministry...
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday urged “dialogue, not confrontation” ahead of talks among African leaders as concerns grow that Ethiopia’s escalating violence could spill across...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday announced military aid for Ukraine worth about 1 billion euros (US$1.13 billion) and an energy support package during a visit to Kyiv, as the Ukrainian...
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The percentage of inmates serving sentences for drug use has fallen over the past five years, largely due to community-based addiction treatment for people whose crimes were relatively minor, the...
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The army plans to commission the National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to build dedicated testing facilities for its indigenously developed Lu Chien II (陸射劍二, “Land Sword...
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The government would soon be able to invest in offshore artificial intelligence (AI) companies that conduct their primary business activities in Taiwan, following an amendment aimed at boosting...
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Recently, reports of Line account hacking have surged. On Sept. 9, Line announced that customer service reports related to such incidents in August had nearly doubled, increasing by 97 percent from...
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Harun Talha Ayanoglu, a visiting research fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), usually writes about materiel and defense issues.
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