GOOD DIPLOMACY: The KMT has maintained close contact with representative offices in Taiwan and had extended an invitation to Russia as well, the KMT s
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterSupporters and opponents of abolishing the death penalty yesterday engaged in heated debate at the Constitutional Cour
By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterThe Presidential Office yesterday thanked political leaders from Taiwan’s diplomatic allies and like-minded countries
SHOW OF SUPPORT: After Taiwan’s assistance in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan is willing to help, the Japanese prime ministe
INFLATION: Executive Yuan spokesperson Lin Tzu-luen said the measure is part of the government’s plan to avoid a surge in consumer prices that a rate
MANY PLANS PROPOSED: The Taipei Department of Social Welfare said it would offer stress relief courses for childcare providers after a one-year-old al
DEFENSE MEASURE: As was done prior to 1993, fighter jet training is to be extended from 9pm until after midnight in Hsinchu and Hualien, the air force
By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporterThe nation’s five major state-run banks extended NT$93.195 billion (US$2.95 billion) of new mortgages last month, th
By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterA regional Belgian parliament on Saturday passed a resolution calling on Brussels to support diplomatic efforts to ea
SEMICONDUCTORS: The briefings are organized by the American Institute in Taiwan and representatives from Taiwanese semiconductor suppliers were invite
FIGHTING VEHICLE: A government official said that a prototype demonstrated fire-on-the-move capability against moving targets with none of the shots m
NIMBLE: The military is to increase production of its Hsiung Feng missiles in response to Chinese threats, and is to field more mobile launch vehicles
AP, WASHINGTONRepresentative to the US Alexander Yui (俞大㵢) has a message for China and the US: Do not worry that president-elect William Lai (賴清德) wou
ACHIEVEMENT: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated president-elect William Lai and Taiwanese for demonstrating the strength of their demo
PEACE AND DEMOCRACY: As one of the first elections to be held in a year of major international voting, Taiwan has shown the world that ‘between democr
By Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerDefense Mission to the US and the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embas
Staff writer, with CNAA claim by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) that pop superstar Taylor Swift turne
ENERGY-EFFICIENT: Incentives for gas-based appliances were extended to replace some old electronic appliances, and products purchased last year and th
TAIWAN PROTECTION MEASURE: US Army General Charles Flynn would not say where in the Asia-Pacific the missiles would be sent, but only that they would
MISSILE DEPLOYMENT: Ministry of Defense has a two stage plan in place for the deployment of missiles to boost Taiwan’s deterrence against China