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Prosecutors question 11 people in recall probe
Hualien County prosecutors yesterday searched offices and questioned 11 people in relation to accusations that the county government illegally sent representatives to people’s homes to verify their identity on a recall petition.The controversy arose last month when a Hualien County resident said tha
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Uncrewed surface vehicle unveiled
ENDEAVOR MANTA: The ship is programmed to automatically return to its designated home port and would self-destruct if seized by another party The Endeavor Manta, Taiwan’s first military-specification uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) tailor-made to operate in the Taiwan Strait in a bid to bolster the nation’s asymmetric combat capabilities made its first appearance at Kaohsiung’s Singda Harbor yesterday.Taking inspiration from Ukraine’s navy
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Top US officials sent journalist plan for Yemen strikes
Top officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump texted a group chat including a journalist plans for strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the White House said, an extraordinary security breach that shocked the political elite.Trump announced the strikes on March 15, but The Atlantic ma
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US, Ukraine officials in new Riyadh talks, no breakthrough with Russia
Washington and Kyiv yesterday held brief talks in Saudi Arabia, a day after hours of US-Russia negotiations on halting the fighting in Ukraine ended without any breakthroughs announced.US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched more than three years
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New Pacific cable network planned
SUBMARINE CABLE: The new E2A would significantly enhance digital connectivity between Asia and North America, providing a robust backbone for AI applications Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信), the nation’s biggest telecom, yesterday said it plans to invest more than NT$4.6 billion (US$139.2 million) in a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic submarine cable with global partners, with an aim to boost network resilience and to cope with rising demand from artificial inte
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Chinese espionage an increasing threat, report says
FIGHTING BACK: The nation must develop an awareness of ‘fighting against China to safeguard Taiwan,’ otherwise it would not be able to counter infiltration, an academic said A report by the Washington-based Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) warned that Taiwan faces an increasing threat from Chinese espionage and urged the government to impose tougher penalties on those found guilty.The report, “Chinese Communist Party Covert Operations Against Taiwan,” highlights the Chines
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Taiwan News
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Newborn dies from severe enterovirus infection: CDC
INFECTIONS: Hospital visits for diarrhea last week fell to 186,708 cases, but were still the highest for the same week in the past five years, a health official said A newborn who died last week was the second death from serious enterovirus infection this year, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday, as it also warned that the number of people seeking treatment for diarrhea remained high.Hospitals reported 3,878 visits for enterovirus infection las
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Taiwanese scientists link pollution to dementia
Taiwanese scientists have found a link between air pollution and dementia risk in elderly people, a Yang Ming Chiao Tung University research team told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.Study coauthor Chuang Yi-fang (莊宜芳), associate professor of public health, said that the medical community has
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Squid, dried fruit and two others fail tests: FDA
DISPOSAL: Food products that did not pass are to be destroyed or returned, and their importers would face more stringent inspection standards and frequency A batch of squid imported from Hokkaido, Japan, was found to contain excessive levels of cadmium, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, as it reported five types of food imports that failed border inspections.The batch of squid contained 2mg/kg of the heavy metal, FDA Deputy Directo
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Ministry subsidizing construction of charging stations for electric vehicles
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has been subsidizing the construction of public charging stations, as the number of electric vehicles (EVs) has grown rapidly over the past few years. As of the end of last month, the number of registered EVs in the nation had increased to 99,980 — 3
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Columbia University raising US$10m for Taiwan center
Columbia University is raising money to establish a Taiwan Studies Center by 2028, which would be the first of its kind at an Ivy League university, representatives from the school in New York said at an event in Taipei on Saturday.Speaking at a Columbia Alumni Association of Taiwan meeting at the R
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Preparatory office, exhibition ushering in museum of Taiwanese art launched
The preparatory office for the planned Tainan National Museum of Modern Art officially opened yesterday, marking the occasion with an exhibition of several precious and rare works by notable Taiwanese artists.“The Formosa Era: the Intellectual Enlightenment of Early Modern and Modern Art in Taiwan”
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Military prepared for blockade: Koo
PREPARATIONS: Taiwan cannot allow China to implement a ‘fifth column’ approach, which would mean that the US could not help, a former Pentagon official said The military has prepared countermeasures should China attempt to blockade Taiwan, an action that would devastate the world economy and that the international community would be unlikely to ignore, Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said yesterday.Koo was responding to a question for
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Groups demand stricter naturalization policy
YAYA: Taiwan should make laws to ban speech advocating war and spreading hatred just like Germany banning Nazi symbols and gestures, Lee Ming-che said The minimum time required for naturalization of Chinese spouses should be extended from six years to eight years, civil groups said yesterday, adding that the government should ban rhetoric advocating war the same way the German government bans the display of Nazi symbols and gestures. Members of th
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Legislature revokes press pass of New Party member
The Legislative Yuan yesterday said it has revoked New Party Deputy Secretary-General You Chih-pin’s (游智彬) press pass, after he insulted lawmakers while live streaming a legislative meeting on Friday last week. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus on Monday convened a news conference accusi
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Business
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Industrial production rises 17.91%
EYE ON THE PIE: An official said that companies ‘should adapt to global supply chain shifts,’ because if the market is growing, tariff effects should be insignificant Industrial production index expanded 17.91 percent annually last month as an artificial intelligence (AI) boom continued to fuel demand for chips and servers, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.Manufacturing production index, the major pillar of the nation’s industrial production, climb
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Buyers anticipate falling prices for homes
‘TUG OF WAR’: A survey showed that 57% of respondents had lower purchasing interest due to tightening measures, with 9 percent ditching buying plans altogether Homebuyers expect housing prices to drop next quarter and sellers might need to cut prices by more than 10 percent to facilitate transactions, a quarterly survey released yesterday by Evertrust Rehouse Co (永慶房屋) showed.Forty-three percent of prospective buyers anticipate housing price corrections in
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Retail, food and beverage sales rise in first two months
Sales in the retail, and the food and beverage sectors in the first two months of this year rose to the highest for the period on record on the back of holiday shopping, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.Retail sales climbed 1.1 percent from a year earlier to NT$801.5 billion (US$24.23
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Editorial & Opinion
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EDITORIAL: KMT’s death penalty trick
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives on Friday last week unanimously passed a resolution condemning Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intimidation against Taiwan.It asked the Belgian government to advocate that the EU bolster its partnership with Taiwan, “with a view to promoting common values and pri
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Lackluster trilateral talks results
The top diplomats from Japan, China and South Korea held talks in Tokyo on Saturday. Given that they took place at such a sensitive time — US-China tensions are high, the Ukraine war is ongoing and US President Donald Trump continues to pressure Washington’s traditional allies — the meeting attracte
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The secret to Taiwan’s happiness
This month’s news that Taiwan ranks as Asia’s happiest place according to this year’s World Happiness Report deserves both celebration and reflection. Moving up from 31st to 27th globally and surpassing Singapore as Asia’s happiness leader is gratifying, but the true significance lies deeper than th
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Sports
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De Minaur outlasts Fonseca in Miami
BRING THE NOISE: Brazil’s Fonseca attracted a boisterous crowd that brought such dominant soccer-style energy the referee switched to Portuguese to ask for quiet Australia’s Alex de Minaur on Monday put an end to Brazilian talent Joao Fonseca’s challenge at the Miami Open, outlasting the 18-year-old 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in an enthralling contest.Attendance on stadium court had been sparse throughout the day, but the Hard Rock Stadium turned into a mini-Maracana Sta
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Blatter, Platini again acquitted in FIFA case
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini yesterday won again in court and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors.The former FIFA president and former UEFA president were acquitted for a second time on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than US$2 mi
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Women’s sports bars bank on March Madness fever
Title 9 Sports Grill’s mission to be a haven for watching women’s sports permeates every nook and cranny. From the more than a dozen TVs mounted on pink and orange walls to the “Play Like a Girl” neon sign against a giant image of retired WNBA star Diana Taurasi.The Phoenix, Arizona, bar is an impre
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Father of Norway runner denies charges of abuse
The father and former coach of double Olympic champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen on Monday denied physically abusing his son and daughter as his trial on the charges began in Norway.Ingebrigtsen, 24, spent the weekend underlining his position as one of the world’s finest athletes by winning gold med
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World News
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S Korea struggles to contain wildfires
‘HUMAN NEGLIGENCE’: The fire is believed to have been caused by someone who was visiting an ancestral grave and accidentally started the blaze, the acting president said Deadly wildfires in South Korea worsened overnight, officials said yesterday, as dry, windy weather hampered efforts to contain one of the nation’s worst-ever fire outbreaks.More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend, with Acting South Korean Interior and Safety Minister Ko Ki-don
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Japan awards death row inmate US$1.44m
DEATH CONSTANTLY LOOMING: Decades of detention took a major toll on Iwao Hakamada’s mental health, his lawyers describing him as ‘living in a world of fantasy’ A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.44 million in compensation, an official said yesterday.The payout represents ￥12,500 (US$83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of
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Man goes on trial in France after burning his wife alive
A French-Algerian man went on trial in France on Monday for burning to death his wife in 2021, a case that shocked the public and sparked heavy criticism of police for failing to take adequate measures to protect her.Mounir Boutaa, now 48, stalked his Algerian-born wife Chahinez Daoud following thei
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Features
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Environmental Impact Assessment: Taiwan’s delivery truck hell
Apart from the goods they carry, delivery trucks bring nothing positive to urban areas. The majority burn diesel or gasoline, and drivers often leave the engines running while making deliveries, exacerbating air pollution. When these vehicles block the street, they delay other road users, causing fr
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Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uighurs while making repeated public denials
Late last month, representatives of a Thai Muslim organization brought a reassuring message to 40 Uighur men terrified they were going to be sent back to China: The government had no immediate plans to deport them.Less than 72 hours later, the men were on a plane bound for China’s far west Xinjiang
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Donovan’s Deep Dives: Military Courts, the KMT’s “Martial Law” referendum and recall campaign politics
On March 13 President William Lai (賴清德) gave a national security speech noting the 20th year since the passing of China’s Anti-Secession Law (反分裂國家法) in March 2005 that laid the legal groundwork for an invasion of Taiwan. That law, and other subsequent ones, are merely political theater created by t
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Bilingual Pages
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ENGLISH DIGEST 實用美語
Indonesia is undertaking an ambitious project to relocate its capital from Jakarta to Nusantara, a new city in the province of East Kalimantan. This bold endeavor aims to address the severe environmental challenges and urban congestion plaguing Jakarta. The current capital city struggles with acute
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How does space travel affect astronaut health? 太空航行對人體的影響
The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth’s confines causes many physiological changes that affect an astronaut’s health.The issue gained new currency with the March missi
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EASY CHINESE GO 輕鬆華語GO
對話 Dialogue清清：華華，你知道3月29號是什麼日子嗎？Qīngqing: Huáhua, nǐ zhīdào sān yuè èrshíjiǔ hào shì shénme rìzǐ ma?華華：是青年節啊！我爸媽常說以前青年節還放一天假呢！Huáhua: Shì Qīngnián jié a! Wǒ bàmā cháng shuō yǐqián Qīngnián jié hái fàng yìtiān jià ne!清清：我是最近看到一百多年前，年輕人為了自由民主犧牲的故事，才注意到的。Qīngqing: Wǒ shì zuìjìn kàndào yìbǎi duō nián qi
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Special Reports
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Notes from Central Taiwan
Notes from Central Taiwan: The Yaya in Taiwan case: free speech at stake?
In 2020, a labor attache from the Philippines in Taipei sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding that a Filipina worker accused of “cyber-libel” against then-president Rodrigo Duterte be deported. A press release from the Philippines office from the attache accused the woman of “using several social media accounts” to “discredit and malign the President and destabilize the government.” The attache also claimed that the woman had broken Taiwan’s laws. The government responded that she had broken no laws, and that all foreign workers were treated the same as Taiwan citizens and that “their rights are protected, including freedom of speech.” Last week the government announced that the National Immigration Agency (NIA) would revoke the spouse-based residence permit of social media influencer Liu Zhenya (劉振亞), a national of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), who is married to a local. This became a major news story, even making the international media. The NIA investigated reports that Liu advocated annexing Taiwan to the PRC through military force in videos posted on social media, including Douyin (where she has 400,000 followers), YouTube and TikTok. On all three, her account name is Yaya in Taiwan (亞亞在台灣). The NIA press release said that Liu’s residence permit will be revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the Measures for the Permission of Family-based Residence, Long-term Residence and Settlement of People from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area (大陸地區人民在台灣地區依親居留長期居留或定居許可辦法). The NIA said that her calls for military force against the people of Taiwan violate the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例). Liu thus violated specific rules that govern PRC citizens. She will be barred from re-applying for residence within the next five years. The government is giving her time on humanitarian grounds to arrange her family
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Taiwan in Time
Taiwan in Time: The Taiwanese traditional opera singer that struck pop gold
March 16 to March 22 In just a year, Liu Ching-hsiang (劉清香) went from Taiwanese opera performer to arguably Taiwan’s first pop superstar, pumping out hits that captivated the Japanese colony under the moniker Chun-chun (純純). Last week’s Taiwan in Time explored how the Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) theme song for the Chinese silent movie The Peach Girl (桃花泣血記) unexpectedly became the first smash hit after the film’s Taipei premiere in March 1932, in part due to aggressive promotion on the streets. Seeing an opportunity, Columbia Records’ (affiliated with the US entity) Taiwan director Shojiro Kashino asked Liu, who had been recording opera tunes for the company since 1929, to perform the song as a part of a batch of “pop music” releases under a new stage name, catapulting her to island-wide recognition. Her popularity soared after she recorded the theme songs for the movies Repentance (懺悔) and A Wise Mother (倡門賢母). Meanwhile, the record company and movie promoters worked together, regularly having Chun-chun perform live at screenings. As Columbia Records solidified its position as Taiwan’s top hitmaker, Chun-chun was its most prolific artist, her voice appearing on 97 out of 250 recordings made during the 1930s, according to music history researcher Huang Yu-yuan (黃裕元). Many are still instantly recognizable today — but none more than the legendary Longing for the Spring Breeze (望春風), which conveyed the conflicting emotions of a young girl yearning to experience her first love. Unfortunately, her stardom was cut short as the Japanese authorities clamped down on Taiwanese culture and the entertainment industry in 1940 due to World War II. She died three years later at the age of 29, succumbing to tuberculosis that she contracted from her late husband. OPERATIC BEGINNINGS Chun-chun was born in 1914, the only daughter of a couple who ran a
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