11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (189+ words) Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) today returned to Taiwan after attending the Second Ventotene European Conference for Freedom and Democracy in Italy. Upon her arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Hsiao delivered remarks via livestream about her visit to the…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (367+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Taiwan’s defense efforts sending signal to US, not China, security expert says Global notebook shipments tipped to drop 8%, MIC says You might also like…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (475+ words) A Taiwanese academic yesterday slammed Chinese drama Emperor Jiaqing and the Journey to Taiwan (嘉慶君遊臺灣), saying it distorted history and promoted a cross-strait unification narrative. The microdrama is funded and presented by Jingcai Taiwan, a Chinese state-run media platform of…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (464+ words) Taiwan yesterday routed the Philippines 13-0 in the Taipei Dome with a 10-run second-inning to win the bronze-medal game of the Baseball Federation of Asia’s U-18 Asian Baseball Championship. In the second inning of the five-inning mercy-rule victory, with 14 plate appearances…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (221+ words) Taiwan’s men’s basketball team yesterday drained 17 three-pointers in a 91-69 rout of Qatar, advancing to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games in Japan. The lopsided victory was largely powered by the team’s precision long-range shooting. Of the 17 three-pointers, seven came in…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (532+ words) European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno on Saturday praised Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) as a role model for freedom-loving women around the world and said she would soon begin planning a trip to Taipei after accepting Hsiao’s invitation to…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (602+ words) Taiwan cannot be overlooked in building a drone supply chain independent of China, US-based Shield AI’s Taiwan representative Chen Yi-ju (陳奕儒) said in an interview. Two years ago, less than 1 percent of the materials used in Shield AI products came…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (420+ words) State-owned oil supplier CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) on Saturday announced that it would raise domestic gasoline prices by NT$0.7 (US$0.02) per liter and diesel prices by NT$0.6 per liter this week after international crude oil prices rose above US…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (326+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A customer buys pomeloes at a market in Nantou County yesterday. Local pomelo consumption picks up steam around the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Nantou County’s…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago   (461+ words) LONGSHAN TEMPLE AND TAIWAN’S DEMOCRACY The story for Wei begins at Taipei’s Longshan Temple, an ironic choice. The temple has been the site of numerous historical events over its nearly three centuries of existence, but all that is gone from…...