COMMUNITY IMPACT: The team helped provide robotics education for disadvantaged students and promoted robotics learning in schools
A team of Taiwanese high-school students advanced to the championship of this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in the US after competing in the four-day San Diego Regional.The team, consisting of 41 students from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School robotics club, was one of four teams that
The Taitung County Government on Wednesday called on whale-watching enthusiasts to keep their distance from the most recently sighted pod of whales off Taiwan’s eastern coast to foster an ocean-friendly environment.A hostel in Changbin Township (長濱) reported the sighting of two humpback whales near
An explosion at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Zhonggang Store in Taichung last month that left five people dead was caused by a gas leak, an official fire investigation report confirmed yesterday.In a brief statement, the Taichung Fire Bureau said it had concluded its investigation into the Feb. 13 blast
‘SHARED DESTINY’: Taiwan, Japan and the US must jointly develop a network of supply chains to ensure the capability to deter China’s military, Kiyofumi Iwata said
Japan’s former top army commander yesterday expressed hope that Taiwan would form a “semiconductor alliance” with Japan.“Taiwan and Japan share a destiny,” retired general Kiyofumi Iwata, a former chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, told a conference in Taipei on semiconductors an
‘CATCH UP’: Troy Meink said the threat China poses in the Indo-Pacific region was because Beijing spent two decades studying the US, which had its focus elsewhere
US National Reconnaissance Office Deputy Director Troy Meink, who has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to serve as secretary of the US Air Force (USAF), on Thursday emphasized the importance of uncrewed systems in deterring conflicts across the Taiwan Strait.During his nomination hearing
Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) yesterday dismissed China’s complaints about a collision between a Taiwanese naval vessel and a Chinese trawler in the Taiwan Strait, vowing that Taipei would continue its military exercises undeterred.China’s Taiwan Affairs Office called the actions
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday occupied the speaker’s podium at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, preventing further proceedings on referendums proposed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).The Legislature on Tuesday passed a motion sending two KMT referendum proposals on “opposing
The Taipei District Court ruled yesterday that the detention of former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) be extended for two months from Wednesday next week.There is still a risk that Ko could flee and collude with others to destroy evidence, hence the decision to extend his detention, the court said.It
SPORTSISU apologizes over flagThe International Skating Union (ISU) on Thursday apologized for displaying the flag of Taiwan rather than the “Chinese Taipei” emblem at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston. The Taiwanese flag was displayed on a video screen behind skater Li Yu-hsiang (李宇翔
Guatemalan Ambassador to Taiwan Luis Raul Estevez Lopez, back row, second left, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen Ming-chi, back row, third left, and other officials participate in the launch of the “Guatemala Coffee Taiwan Tour” yesterday at the Children’s Amusement Park in Taipei. The tour w
Chunghwa Post chairman Wang Kwo-tsai, third right, International Albert Schweitzer Foundation Asian Branch chairman Wang Shan-tsai, third left, and others hold special-edition stamps commemorating humanitarian Albert Schweitzer’s 150th birthday at a ceremony yesterday. The stamps, issued by Chunghwa
Yu Jui-ming, the mother of Republic of China Air Force staff sergeant Tsai Hsueh-liang, who died of a gunshot wound to the head at a shooting range in 2008, speaks outside Jinan Presbyterian Church in Taipei yesterday. In 2015 the High Court ruled that Tsai was killed at close range by a handgun in
A wild live dugong was found in Taiwan for the first time in 88 years, after it was accidentally caught by a fisher’s net on Tuesday in Yilan County’s Fenniaolin (粉鳥林).This is the first sighting of the species in Taiwan since 1937, having already been considered “extinct” in the country and consider
Separate investigations into two Chinese semiconductor companies, Ark Semi (艾科微電子) and Kimtigo (金泰克半導體), found they used third-party investments and poached local tech talent to illegally establish research and development (R&D) centers in Taiwan, the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office said today.
A gas explosion caused the death of five people at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Zhonggang Store in Taichung last month, the Fire Bureau said today, sending evidence to prosecutors for further investigation. The explosion occurred on the 12th floor of the department store at 11:33am on Feb. 13, resultin
The International Skating Union (ISU) yesterday apologized for displaying the flag of Taiwan rather than the Chinese Taipei emblem at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston.The Taiwan flag was displayed on the video screen behind skater Li Yu-hsiang (李宇翔) when he was introduced ahead of hi
The Taipei District Court today decided to extend the detention of former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and three others who are accused of bribery and embezzlement in the Core Pacific City corruption case.The four suspects are to be held incommunicado for another two months starting from Wednesday n
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) today urged the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) to abandon its ongoing occupation of the Legislative Yuan, after controversy erupted over two proposed referendums.DPP caucus chief executive Rosalia Wu (吳思瑤) yesterday accused the KMT and th
The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations yesterday passed a bill that would require the US Department of State to review guidance on relations with Taiwan at least every five years and submit a report to Congress. The “Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act” must still be passed by the full US Sena