Japan must prepare for a Taiwan contingency - Taipei Times
WEB16 hours ago · Japan must prepare for a Taiwan contingency. The Japanese-language Nikkei Shimbun on Friday published a full-page story calling for Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership hopefuls to be aware of and to prepare for a potential crisis in the Taiwan Strait. The candidates of the LDP leadership race must have a “vision” in case ...
Plans to ease labor shortage: minister - Taipei Times
WEB2 days ago · Minister of Labor Ho Pei-shan attends a meeting of the Minimum Wage Deliberation Committee in Taipei on Wednesday. The labor shortage problem is not unique to Taiwan, with many countries experiencing the same problem after the COVID-19 pandemic, Ho said. However, Taiwan’s labor participation rate for people aged 55 or …
Taiwan News Quick Take - Taipei Times
WEB16 hours ago · Taiwan News Quick Take. Taiwan is to hold a series of drills from Wednesday next week to Friday to mark the annual National Disaster Prevention Day, including sending an emergency alert message warning of an earthquake, the Ministry of Interior said. The text alert would be sent to people’s cellphones at 9:21am on Friday …
Taiwan confronts new energy challenge - Taipei Times
WEB2 days ago · Taiwan confronts new energy challenge. By Tommy Lin 林逸民. Debates over energy sources in Taiwan have centered on whether to embrace or reject the use of nuclear energy. In reality, nuclear energy has never accounted for a large portion of power consumption in Taiwan. The major source of power in Taiwan is actually thermal …
TPP vows to mobilize party for Ko - Taipei Times
WEB2 days ago · The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday said it would “mobilize the entire party” to defend party Chairman Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) innocence, one day after the Taipei District Court ordered his detention in connection with an anti-corruption probe. Ko has been named a suspect in a Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office investigation ...
Cabinet eyes NT$2.66tn chip industry - Taipei Times
WEB3 days ago · The government is aiming to make Taiwan the dominant player in the global semiconductor supply chain, with annual output topping NT$2.66 trillion (US$82.9 billion) by 2028, the Executive Yuan said yesterday. The goal was set to fulfill President William Lai’s (賴清德) pledge of developing five “trusted industry sectors,” semiconductors ...
US criticizes Chinese censorship at Pacific forum - Taipei Times
WEB3 days ago · China’s demand that the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) remove a reference to Taiwan from a communique issued on Friday last week is consistent with Beijing’s efforts to limit Taipei’s international participation, a US government spokesperson said on Wednesday. The 18-member inter-governmental organization held its 53rd summit in …