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BIGGEST TROUBLEMAKER: China should not be carrying out any such exercises given the threat to regional peace and stability, Premier Cho Jung-tai said yesterday. The Ministry of National Defense yesterday said that live-fire Chinese drills in a province facing Taiwan are part of routine annual drills, but also possibly part of China’s ...
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2 days ago · The Taiwan Strait is international waters, not “internal waters” as China claims, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday, blasting Beijing’s attempts to challenge the rules-based international order.“Taiwan has never been a problem; the problem lies in Chinese hegemony and expansionis.
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Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) yesterday temporarily shut down the nation’s nuclear energy generation as the state-run utility started regular maintenance on the remaining reactor at the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant for 41 days.The No. 2 reactor of the nation’s only active nuclear plant in Pingtung.
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Zelenskiy arrives in Brussels to defend ‘victory plan’. NATO TALKS: The focus was on getting military aid into Ukraine to make sure Kyiv could negotiate from a position of strength, if that day comes, NATO’s head said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday arrived in Brussels to defend his “victory plan” for Ukraine to EU ...
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The New Taipei City District Court recently handed down sentences in an on-campus throat-slashing murder of a ninth-grade student that was committed by two schoolmates on Christmas Day last year. The male perpetrator was sentenced to nine years and the female instigator to eight years in prison.
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AGREEMENT: The proposal includes a wage increase of 35 percent spread over four years, a guaranteed annual bonus of at least 4 percent and an additional US$7,000 bonus. Boeing Co and the union representing 33,000 striking workers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with help from the White House, underscoring the high stakes to end ...
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UNDERAGE DRIVERS: A foundation called for more severe penalties after a 15-year-old crashed his grandfather’s car into an eatery, killing three people and injuring two Penalties for minors driving without a license are too lenient to pose any deterrence, resulting in an average of 40,000 cases of unlicensed driving per year, the Jing Chuan ...
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On Taiwan: Reassessing Jimmy Carter’s Derecognition of Taipei 2024-10-21 President Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 years old this month, has not been highly thought of in Taiwan since his 1978 decision to derecognize Taipei as the seat of the “Republic of China.”
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2024-10-22. Taiwan’s AI industry will generate over NT$1 trillion by 2026, according to projections by the National Development Council (NDC), based largely on Taiwan’s dominance in semiconductor manufacturing. But the goal to make Taiwan Asia’s leading AI hub, or “AI island” in the words of President William L.
More than 100,000 attend Taipei protests - Taipei Times
May 25, 2024 · Large crowds assembled around the Legislative Yuan in Taipei and other cities nationwide yesterday to protest efforts by opposition lawmakers to pass a set of controversial legislative reform bills.