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Olympic medalist Lin pulled from world championships
NO LIVERPOOL TRIP: Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who won a gold medal in the boxing at the Paris Olympics, was embroiled in controversy about her gender at that event Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) will not attend this year’s World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England, due to a lack of response regarding her sex tests from the organizer, World Boxing.The national boxing association on Monday said that it had submitted all required tests to World Boxing,
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US pulls TSMC’s waiver for China shipments of chip supplies
The US has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base, potentially curtailing its production capabilities at that older-generation facility.American officials recently informed TSMC of their decision to
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Suspicious activity found at Chungshan Institute
The Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology yesterday confirmed that it had detected suspicious activity, after Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said that an insider had been selling sensitive tender documents to potential contractors.Huang earlier yesterday in a Facebook p
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China-Russia ties at ‘unprecedented level,’ Putin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) that their countries’ ties were at an “unprecedented level,” during talks in Beijing ahead of a massive military parade.Today’s showcase of China’s might has been seized by world leaders as an opportunity to hold rare
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Gaza strikes kill 31, academics accuse Israel of genocide
Israel on Monday launched strikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 31 people, while leading academics accused it of genocide, allegations the Israeli government vehemently rejected.“Another merciless night in Gaza City,” said Saeed Abu Elaish, a Jabaliya-born medic sheltering in the northwest
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People who clashed with police to be investigated
TPP RALLY: The clashes occurred near the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall on Saturday at a rally to mark the anniversary of a raid on former TPP chairman Ko Wen-je People who clashed with police at a Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) rally in Taipei on Saturday would be referred to prosecutors for investigation, said the Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the National Police Agency.Taipei police had collected evidence of obstruction of public officials and coe
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Taiwan News
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Enterovirus cases rise to six-year high, CDC says
SEASONAL HIGH: Parents and school staff should stay alert and practice preventive measures, as the number of cases usually rises in September when school starts Two new cases of newborns developing severe complications from enterovirus were reported last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday, adding that the 15 severe cases reported so far this year represented a six-year high.The newborns, in central Taiwan, were less than a month old,
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Animal groups protest making meerkats pets
‘GRAY’: Meerkats are social animals and those that are raised alone can be aggressive and self-harm, posing a danger to themselves and their owners, the groups said Animal protection groups yesterday urged the Ministry of Agriculture to ban keeping meerkats as pets, as they do not fare well under private ownership and could threaten the environment.The groups were responding to the ministry’s proposal to classify meerkats as a “gray” animal in its suggested cat
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Official Double Ten logo unveiled
A government planning committee yesterday unveiled the official logo for this year’s Double Ten National Day celebrations.The emblem, shared on Facebook by the National Day Preparation Committee, features two Chinese characters for “10” (shi, 十) joined together in the colors of the national flag — r
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Philippine banana sauce stopped at border: FDA
Three batches of banana sauce imported from the Philippines were intercepted at the border after they were found to contain the banned industrial dye Orange G, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday.From today through Sept. 2, next year, all seasoning sauces from the Philippines are t
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New health chief commits to ‘Healthy Taiwan’ project
Newly appointed Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) on Monday said he would continue to push the government’s “Healthy Taiwan Cultivation Plan,” and prioritize medical, mental health and societal resilience.Shih, the director-general of the National Health Insurance Administration
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Taiwan, France launch platform for language learning
Taiwanese and French universities have jointly developed an online learning platform offering courses on Taiwan’s culture and indigenous languages, including Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) and Hakka. Scheduled to launch next month, the platform would feature 17 Taiwan Studies courses, said the
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Seven indicted over LINE crypto scam
Seven people have been indicted for defrauding victims through the messaging app LINE by posing as cryptocurrency dealers, cheating 35 victims out of nearly NT$97.43 million (US$3.17 million), Chiayi prosecutors said yesterday.According to an Aug. 14 indictment, a man surnamed Lin (林) set up a
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Prosecutors indict four in preschool assault, seek heavy penalties
The Taitung District Prosecutors Office yesterday announced indictments against four people accused of physically assaulting six children in a special preschool education class at an elementary school in Taitung County this January.The office said it is seeking a sentence of six years and 10 mo
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Ex-KMT chair to attend Beijing parade
MESSAGE CONFUSION: Hung’s attendance goes against the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan and could cause misunderstandings about Taiwan’s sovereignty, an official said Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) yesterday announced she would attend China’s military parade in Beijing today, prompting condemnation from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which said her attendance would harm the nation’s dignity.Hung, who arrived in Beij
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Business
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MOEA to support machine tool sector
INDUSTRY: Loan guarantees reached NT$1.13 trillion in the first eight months of the year, reflecting government efforts to help SMEs maintain stability, Kung Ming-hsin said Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) yesterday said the government would stand by the machine tool and machinery industries, as they are the backbone of the domestic manufacturing industry, and vowed not to withdraw financial aid when needed.The two industries are facing headwinds from
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DBS Taiwan posts record NT$4.4 billion profit in 1H
Despite global geopolitical uncertainties and macroeconomic volatility, DBS Bank Taiwan (星展台灣) yesterday reported that its first-half revenue rose 10 percent year-on-year to a record NT$16.5 billion (US$537.8 million), while net profit surged 65 percent to an unprecedented NT$4.4 billion.The nation’
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TSMC widens global foundry lead
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) secured a record 70.2 percent share of the global foundry business in the second quarter, up from 67.6 percent the previous quarter, and continued widening its lead over second-placed Samsung Electronics Co, TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said on Monday.TSMC
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Editorial & Opinion
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EDITORIAL: Technology leaks threaten security
The Intellectual Property and Commercial Court on Monday ordered three suspects to be held incommunicado over alleged theft of trade secrets related to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC) 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology.The case has triggered national alarm, given the sensitivit
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Clarifying comments on Johnson
A response to my article (“Invite ‘will-bes,’ not has-beens,” Aug. 12, page 8) mischaracterizes my arguments, as well as a speech by former British prime minister Boris Johnson at the Ketagalan Forum in Taipei early last month.Tseng Yueh-ying (曾月英) in the response (“A misreading of Johnson’s speech,
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Ker Chien-ming’s strange antics
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) has been acting rather oddly since in January proposing a recall targeting the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) 39 legislators who were directly elected, as well as two independents, while calling on Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu
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Sports
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Osaka thrashes Coco Gauff at US Open
PRAISE: Alexander Bublik smiled as he embraced Jannik Sinner at the net after losing to him, and he could be heard saying: ‘You’re so good, this is insane’ Japan’s Naomi Osaka on Monday delivered a statement win at the US Open by thrashing home favorite Coco Gauff in the round-of-16 as Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek charged into the quarter-finals. The Japanese star powered past third seed Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in a highly anticipated but lopsided fourth-round
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English clubs spend a record US$4bn
Liverpool saved the biggest transfer until last in their remarkable US$570 million summer spree, finally signing Alexander Isak from Newcastle United for a British record fee as the window closed on Monday with spending by English Premier League clubs soaring beyond US$4 billion. The biggest saga of
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Motorsport boss candidate Mayer seeks culture change
The only candidate to take over the stewardship of Formula One has called for a change of culture after several high-profile clashes between drivers and International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Mohammed ben Sulayem. Tim Mayer, who is running for FIA president, said that he wants to usher
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Ten Hag says his sacking was a ‘complete surprise’
Former Bayer 04 Leverkusen coach Erik ten Hag said that the club’s decision to dismiss him after just two German Bundesliga matches in charge came as a complete surprise, and that the club’s hierarchy had not shown enough trust in him. Leverkusen lost their opening league fixture 2-1 at home to TSG
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World News
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Rescuers race to reach Afghan villages
HEALTH CONCERNS: Rescue teams were trying to dispose of animal carcasses quickly to minimize the risk of contamination to water resources, a UN official said Rescuers in Afghanistan yesterday were trying to reach isolated villages in the eastern region of Kunar, the epicenter of an earthquake that killed 1,124 people, according to the Afghan Red Crescent Society.At least 3,251 people have been injured and more than 8,000 houses have been destroyed in the
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Landslide in Sudan kills more than 1,000
A “massive” landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, a rebel group that controls the area said late on Monday, adding that there was just one survivor.The disaster struck on Sunday after days of heavy rain, devastating the
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Australia set to tackle deepfake nudes, stalking
Australia yesterday said that it would oblige tech giants to prevent online tools being used to create artificial intelligence (AI)-generated nude images or stalk people without detection.The government would work with industry on developing new legislation against the “abhorrent technologies,” it s
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Features
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Taiwan takes fourth place in Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
Futuristic solar-powered cars have finished racing 3,000 kilometers across the rugged Australian Outback desert in the ultimate endurance competition. Running on enough power for a hair dryer, some reached speeds as high as 130 kilometers per hour and completed the trek in just four-and-a-half days.
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Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia
With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games.As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a battery change, their creators and futurologists debated the central question of when robots will be
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Nuclear referendum and AI — Taiwan’s energy gamble
The low voter turnout for the referendum on Aug. 23 shows that many Taiwanese are apathetic about nuclear energy, but there are long-term energy stakes involved that the public needs to grasp Taiwan faces an energy trilemma: soaring AI-driven demand, pressure to cut carbon and reliance on fragile fuel imports. But the nuclear referendum on Aug. 23 showed how little this registered with voters, many of whom neither see the long game nor grasp the stakes.Volunteer referendum worker Vivian
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Bilingual Pages
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ENGLISH DIGEST 實用美語(空中美語)
Have you ever dreamed of hiking Taiwan’s majestic Mt. Jade or visiting Peru’s breathtaking Machu Picchu? These adventures sound amazing, but there’s something you should know about first: “altitude sickness.” This condition strikes when you climb to a higher elevation too quickly. The higher you go,
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BILINGUAL STORY 雙語故事
★ Bilingual Story is a fictionalized account. 雙語故事部分內容純屬虛構。“Get in. It’s pouring.” She slid into the back seat, drenched and silent. “Tissues?” the driver asked. “No, thank you,” she said. Water beaded off her hair, ran from her coat, and made a small lake on the vinyl. She kept her head down, long
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輕鬆華語GO: EASY CHINESE GO
對話 Dialogue清清：華華，你不覺得最近天氣還是很熱嗎？都已經入秋了耶！ Qīngqing: Huáhua, nǐ bù juéde zuìjìn tiānqì hái shì hěn rè ma? Dōu yǐjīng rùqiū le yē!華華：對啊，白天的太陽好像夏天一樣強，我每天都流很多汗。Huáhua: Duì a, báitiān de tàiyáng hǎoxiàng xiàtiān yíyàng qiáng, wǒ měitiān dōu liú hěn duō hàn.清清：聽說是「秋老虎」在發威，白天的太陽超曬的。Qīngqing: Tīngshuō shì “qi
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Special Reports
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Donovan’s Deep Dives
Donovan’s Deep Dives: Lu Shiow-yen signals her challenge to KMT leadership
Two moves show Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) is gunning for Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) party chair and the 2028 presidential election. Technically, these are not yet “officially” official, but by the rules of Taiwan politics, she is now on the dance floor. Earlier this month Lu confirmed in an interview in Japan’s Nikkei that she was considering running for KMT chair. This is not new news, but according to reports from her camp she previously was still considering the case for and against running. By choosing a respected, international news outlet, she declared it to the world. While the outside world likely paid little attention, domestically the message was unmistakable: She is moving on to a larger stage. Part of the dance is to leave options open before formally committing, and with the chair race due in late September, she has time. If something goes wrong in the meantime, or if power brokers in the party offer her a deal that provides more benefits than taking on the role of chair, she can pivot accordingly. Earlier this year, I suggested that strategically, she would be better off concentrating on her job as Taichung mayor until she is term-limited out of office in December next year. Taichung mayor is obviously a full-time job, and concurrently running the Taipei-headquartered party runs the risk of doing one or both jobs poorly and making mistakes that could imperil her shot at the presidency in 2028. The situation has changed. Current KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), knowing he is likely to face challengers of a higher caliber than the three relative nobodies already declared, has gone all in on appealing to the base. The base is more likely to turn out to vote in the chair election, so this makes some strategic sense in the short term.
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Lost Army
A battle for historical memory in Thailand’s “Little Taiwan”
Among Thailand’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) villages, a certain rivalry exists between Arunothai, the largest of these villages, and Mae Salong, which is currently the most prosperous. Historically, the rivalry stems from a split in KMT military factions in the early 1960s, which divided command and opium territories after Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) cut off open support in 1961 due to international pressure (see part two, “The KMT opium lords of the Golden Triangle,” on May 20). But today this rivalry manifests as a different kind of split, with Arunothai leading a pro-China faction and Mae Salong staunchly aligned to Taiwan. Last spring at Arunothai’s Jiaolian School, principal Wang Mingming (王明明) had forewarned me of the division between villages, saying, “We are not like the people in Mae Salong. They are rich. Because of the Taiwanese.” Arunothai has in recent years become split in its loyalties between Taiwan and China (see part one, “A tale of two schools,” on May 15), but in Mae Salong, links to Taiwan remain strong. Taiwan-funded monuments pay homage to the Lost Army, villagers wear T-shirts emblazoned with the Republic of China (ROC) flag and tea plantations grown Taiwan’s most famous tea varieties, including Dong Ding (“frozen peak”) Oolong, Oriental Beauty and Jin Xuan (Golden Daylily or Milk Oolong). Even the numerical classifications of the teas — Oolong No. 12 or No. 17, for example — are the same, and the shops resemble those found on Alishan. At the tomb of General Tuan Hsi-wen (段希文) — perched on a Mae Salong hilltop with a view of his ancestral homeland in China’s Yunnan province — a third generation villager wearing a vintage KMT army uniform, Yan Si-Chung (岩思中), greets visitors with sharp military salutes. “Both my father and my grandfather were soldiers in the KMT army,” the 44-year-old
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