The Italian pavilion at the Taipei International Book Exhibition is hosting ... book fair in collaboration with the Bologna Children's Book Fair, ... | Continue reading
The Bologna Children's Book Fair curates the “exhibition without written words” to break down language barriers with a display of 50 picture books ... | Continue reading
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan | Continue reading
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan | Continue reading
The Langya henipavirus, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, has been discovered in China, with 35 human infections reported so far, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said, adding that the nation would establish a nucleic acid testing method to identify the … | Continue reading
Many Shanghainese were shocked to see images of Taiwanese actor Lee Li-chun (李立群) wandering freely around Taiwan and visiting restaurants as he pleased. This shattered Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda.Just a few months ago, Lee was starving together with other people in S … | Continue reading
“There’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it,” US President Joe Biden said after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global geopolitics.Far from Earth, that transition is already happening.Just like in the era of Sputnik and Apollo more than half a … | Continue reading
The US’ efforts to increase onshore manufacturing of semiconductors is wasteful and an expensive exercise in futility due to a lack of manufacturing talent and high costs, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) founder Morris Chang (張忠謀) said on Tuesday. Chang made the … | Continue reading
The US’ efforts to increase onshore manufacturing of semiconductors is wasteful and an expensive exercise in futility due to a lack of manufacturing talent and high costs, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) founder Morris Chang (張忠謀) said on Tuesday. Chang made the … | Continue reading
The indefinite closure of 3M Co’s semiconductor coolant plant in Belgium could have major effects on the global semiconductor industry, in which Taiwan has a leading role, analysts said on Sunday.The 3M plant in Zwijndrecht closed on March 8 due to tightened environmental regulat … | Continue reading
The indefinite closure of 3M Co’s semiconductor coolant plant in Belgium could have major effects on the global semiconductor industry, in which Taiwan has a leading role, analysts said on Sunday.The 3M plant in Zwijndrecht closed on March 8 due to tightened environmental regulat … | Continue reading
A question on many people’s minds is whether the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine could lead to a major change in the US’ strategic direction, as happened after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.It is still too early to say whether the US would shift its strategic focus b … | Continue reading
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Kuo-shu (黃國書) yesterday accused China of pressuring the Bologna Children’s Book Fair to label the works of Taiwanese illustrator Cho Pei-hsin (卓霈欣) as being from “Taiwan, China.”Huang told a legislative hearing, which was attended by … | Continue reading
The top China adviser to former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Saturday said that Taiwan is safer than Ukraine amid growing concern that Russia’s invasion of its neighbor might affect the situation across the Taiwan Strait.Miles Yu (余茂春), who is now a senior fellow at the H … | Continue reading
The majority of Hong Kongers who sought asylum in Taiwan show signs of trauma related to political violence, while most have trouble adapting to life in their new home, a source who works with them said.“Many of the victims were beaten by Hong Kong police, or were close with some … | Continue reading
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Friday that the Pentagon would continue to support Taiwan’s military, but he declined to say if US troops would defend the island against China, after US President Joe Biden said there was a US “commitment” to do so.“As we’ve done over … | Continue reading
Peace in the Taiwan Strait is key to Taiwan’s ability to ensure a continuous supply of the chips needed to power a wide range of products from vehicles to smartphones, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said.Taipei is seeking to rally political support as China ramps … | Continue reading
The academic records of 7,854 high-school students have been lost due to a hard-drive failure, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.The records were being stored at National Chi Nan University, which was commissioned by the ministry’s K-12 Education Administration to host a c … | Continue reading
The number of people living with high blood pressure has more than doubled since 1990, said a major study published yesterday, which found that half of all sufferers — about 720 million people — went untreated in 2019.Hypertension is linked to more than 8.5 million deaths each ye … | Continue reading
A video allegedly featuring retired general Kao An-kuo (高安國) calling on Taiwanese military officers to surrender to China and overthrow the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has sparked outrage and calls for him to be charged with treason. The video, titled “A message … | Continue reading
A US military transport plane made a brief stopover yesterday morning in Taipei, drawing media attention and no comment from the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.A C-146A Wolfhound touched down at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport … | Continue reading
Decades before the race to build a self-driving vehicle became a multibillion-dollar contest between tech giants such as Tesla Inc and Google, a South Korean professor built an autonomous vehicle and test-drove it across the country — only for his research to be consigned to the … | Continue reading
THE ARTSLocal illustrators honoredEight Taiwanese graphic illustrators were among 77 selected to participate in the 55th Illustrators Exhibition to be held online during the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in June, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency said on Thursday. This year, 3,23 … | Continue reading
The IMF last week sent US$350 million in cash to the Burmese government, part of a no-strings-attached emergency aid package to help it battle the COVID-19 pandemic.Days later, Burmese military leaders seized power and detained Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other … | Continue reading
Nearly 11,000 Hong Kongers moved to Taiwan last year — almost double the number reported a year earlier — after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the territory.Taiwan has long attracted Hong Kongers seeking an alternative to their territory’s frenetic pace and s … | Continue reading
From India to China to the US, automakers cannot make vehicles — not that no one wants any, but because a more than US$450 billion industry for semiconductors got blindsided. How did both sides end up here?Over the past two weeks, automakers across the world have bemoaned the sho … | Continue reading
Taiwan in Time: Jan. 4 to Jan. 10On Jan. 8, 1975, nearly 30 years after the end of World War II, former Imperial Japanese Army soldier Nakamura Teruo finally returned home. It was a different place from what he had known. His native land was no longer part of Japan. His son, who … | Continue reading
A new national campaign against food waste has sparked a rare bout of speculation over Beijing’s ability to safely feed 1.4 billion Chinese when faced with floods, epidemics, locusts and rising tensions with some of its biggest trading partners.The sudden and massive push to curb … | Continue reading
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.While individual women have spo … | Continue reading
Human rights advocates yesterday cautioned the global community against China’s expanding totalitarianism in Hong Kong and elsewhere, as they marked the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.The New School for Democracy held a forum attended by lawmakers, academics an … | Continue reading
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday urged the WHO to be honest as the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) published the e-mail it had sent to the world body in December last year alerting it about the risk of an outbreak in China.The WHO on Friday sa … | Continue reading
Humans likely synthesized COVID-19, although more studies are needed to be certain, National Taiwan University (NTU) public health researcher Fang Chi-tai (方啟泰) said yesterday. | Continue reading
Two executives of a Chinese company based in Hong Kong who have allegedly tried to influence Taiwanese elections were yesterday barred from leaving the nation following their detention at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Sunday. | Continue reading
Although the rapid escalation of violence in Hong Kong seems terrifying enough, things might be about to get much worse. | Continue reading
The cofounder of China’s SenseTime Group was visiting New York to encourage more collaboration with the US on artificial intelligence (AI) when he heard the news: US President Donald Trump’s administration had blacklisted his company. So much for more cooperation. | Continue reading
Would you like your table salt served with plastic or without plastic? While the obvious answer would be without plastic, you actually do not have a choice anymore. | Continue reading
Low-income people are more likely to engage in emotional eating and become obese due to psychological distress, a study published by a group of researchers from the University of Liverpool suggested. | Continue reading
A type of small wasp might be introduced to combat an influx of fall armyworms, the Council of Agriculture said on Monday. | Continue reading
Lin Kun-hai (林昆海) says that for many karaoke in the mountains is a popular way to finish a hike. | Continue reading
Dissections of turtles found stranded ashore showed that more than half had consumed plastic and other waste produced by humans, while most were found on the coasts of southern and eastern Taiwan, the Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) said in a report on Friday. | Continue reading
You have just arrived at the hotel after a delayed flight and a half-hour wrangle with the car-hire firm — and then you remember that you have forgotten to pay last month’s credit card bill, and there will be an interest charge if you wait until you are back at base. | Continue reading
Growth in export-reliant Singapore suffered a surprise sharp contraction in the second quarter, official data showed yesterday, sending a stark warning that US-China trade tensions are hurting the global economy. | Continue reading
Global PC shipments increased 1.5 percent year-on-year last quarter, reversing two quarters of declines, preliminary results published by market research and advisory firm Gartner Inc showed. | Continue reading
The verification by Yousuke Kaifu that Yonaguni Island is visible from Taiwan underscores the Japanese anthropologist’s theory that his ancestors could have migrated to Japan from Taiwan. | Continue reading
National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) yesterday said that it has carried out a heart transplant on a woman whose heart had stopped beating 50 days before, marking a new record in the nation. | Continue reading
A well-known South Korean broadcaster has resigned after allegedly taking photographs of a woman’s “lower body” without her knowledge, in the latest molka voyeurism scandal to hit the country. | Continue reading
Financial regulators must act fast to prepare for the push by US tech giants such as Facebook Inc into the financial system, European Central Bank Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said yesterday. | Continue reading
A team of Taiwanese and Japanese researchers yesterday launched a dugout canoe from Taitung County to test the hypothesis that the early inhabitants of Japan traveled from Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands via the Kuroshio Current using similar wooden vessels about 30,000 years ago. | Continue reading