Book nook - Taipei Times
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People visit a booth at the 78th Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s biggest trade fair for books, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, yesterday. The fair ends tomorrow.
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top 69%AI valuation fears derail Firmus IPO - Taipei Times
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Firmus Grid Ltd abandoned its attempt at one of Australia’s biggest-ever initial public offerings, after the Nvidia Corp-backed data center company failed to lure global investors who have grown...
OpenAI expects US$70bn in annualized revenue - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed US$70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business.
Vance highlights Microsoft in crackdown on visa abuse - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
US President Donald Trump’s administration accused Microsoft Corp, Adobe Inc and a half-dozen other companies of abusing a US worker visa program and suspended them indefinitely from a longstanding...
GlobalFoundries rallies after US$2bn TSMC deal - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
GlobalFoundries Inc shares gained as much as 7 percent after the chip manufacturer announced a five-year, US$2 billion deal to provide US production capacity to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Meta bans ads from TikTok on its apps - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Meta Platforms Inc banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動), the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site.
MOFA to dismiss diplomat facing corruption charges - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday condemned a senior diplomat facing corruption charges who has not returned since going on a trip to Japan, and said it is preparing to fire him.
Coast guard struggling to staff its expanding fleet - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) has increased its fleet by 21.3 percent since 2022, but is struggling to recruit personnel to crew the vessels, the Legislative Yuan’s Budget Center said...
CBS identifies ‘accomplice’ of alleged Chinese agent - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
CBS News on Thursday reported that Miao Fatai (苗發泰), a Chinese-born construction entrepreneur in California, might be the unidentified companion who allegedly helped Wanying “Heather” Zhang (張婉瑩)...
China Youth Corps ruled a KMT-affiliated body - Taipei Times
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The Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday upheld a 2018 ruling by the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee designating the China Youth Corps (CYC) as an “affiliated organization” of the...
Giant Taiwan flag flies freely on National Day - Taipei Times
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Largely banned from display internationally due to Beijing’s objections, a giant Taiwanese flag suspended under a US-made Chinook helicopter and flown over Taipei is one of the most eye-catching...
Overseas offices celebrate Double Ten - Taipei Times
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Taiwan’s overseas representative offices marked Double Ten National Day with receptions in India, Turkey, the Netherlands, the Philippines and the US, underscoring efforts to bolster diplomatic...
Environmental research academy honored by ARTDO - Taipei Times
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The National Environmental Research Academy won this year’s Human Resource Development Excellence Award from Manila-based ARTDO International, the academy said yesterday.
Doctor accused of falsifying record - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Allegations that a China-trained doctor is illegally practicing medicine with a fake US medical diploma need to be verified, officials said yesterday, although they did not rule out launching a...
Pig farms urged to heed rules about feed - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Twenty-four cases of illegal transportation of kitchen waste have been identified so far this year, the Central Emergency Operation Center for African swine fever (ASF) said on Thursday, calling on...
Officials hail publication of hepatitis C strategy - Taipei Times
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The Lancet yesterday published Taiwan’s hepatitis C elimination strategy, which the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said marked international recognition of the national effort to suppress...
Jurist Navi Pillay receives this year’s Nobel Peace Prize - Taipei Times
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Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that...
Taiwan offers much more than tech, Tsai Ing-wen says - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Taiwan offers the global democratic community much more than just semiconductors, former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) told an audience at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in San Francisco...
King Mswati III pledges deeper Taiwan-Eswatini ties - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Eswatini’s king yesterday pledged to deepen his country’s “enduring friendship” with Taiwan during a return visit to Taipei after President William Lai’s (賴清德) trip to the southern African nation...
Strait war risk exaggerated: US official - Taipei Times
Taipei Times9d ago
Global investors are overestimating the likelihood of a conflict across the Taiwan Strait by next year, a senior US diplomat told CNBC on Thursday, adding that robust cross-strait deterrence and...