By Chiu Chih-jou and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerAs people are trying their luck in the lotteries over the Lunar New Year holid
By Shelley Shan and Rachel Lin / Staff reportersNearly 300 Taiwanese tourists on Sunday came close to being stranded on Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island afte
By Wu Che-yu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe New Taipei City Environmental Beautification Bureau on Saturday offered suggestions
TOP CONTRACT CHIPMAKER: TSMC and Samsung boosting their patent portfolios show Taiwan has become a global semiconductor hub, the head of the IP office
EVER-READY: Despite the Lunar New Year holiday, the air force is on high alert, ready to deploy fighter jets and anti-air missiles to safeguard the na
With their purple, gold and green colors and toy babies hidden inside, king cakes are staples of Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, but apparentl
MEDICAL TABOO: Hospitals reported 265,000 emergency room visits during the Lunar New Year holiday last year, with the figure spiking to 748.3 million
BANNED DYE FOUND: A product produced by Chiseng Hong Ltd has been recalled, but producers that use chili powder from the original importer might also
/ Staff Writer, with CNATaiwan will keep working with its democratic partners to maintain peace and stability, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yeste
STABILITY CONCERNS: South Korea’s ambassador to China said maintaining peace in the Strait is key, but added that Seoul still respects the ‘one China’
UPDATES: Under proposed Ministry of Education rule changes, schools would have more authority to search students considered at-risk, it said after a m
SEMICONDUCTORS: The briefings are organized by the American Institute in Taiwan and representatives from Taiwanese semiconductor suppliers were invite
INVESTIGATION: The contaminated batch consisting of 819kg products was the first time a beta-agonist was detected in domestic pork in a decade, a publ
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE: Institute of National Defense and Security Research fellow Su Tzu-yun said lasers are a far cheaper alternative to shooting mis
Staff writer, with CNAThe National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) in Tainan has opened its largest-ever exhibition called “Transcending 1624: Taiwan
SECRET VOTING? All three parties had legislators standing next to ballot boxes making sure that their fellow party members followed instructions while
/ AFP, WASHINGTONUniversal Music Group NV on Tuesday warned that it would pull its songs, which include those by Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and The W
ALLEGED TAX EVASION: Four Rakuten Girls cheerleaders were released without bail in an investigation in which a former manager and an agent were also n
IN OR OUT: The TPP’s legislators-at-large would vote for Vivian Huang for speaker, or be expelled, and they would not vote in a second round, Ko said
TRAGIC LOSS: There were 40 severe flu complications and eight flu-related deaths reported last week, including a three-year-old girl who died of respi