Taiwan ranks 8th on world competitiveness list

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan ranked eighth on Switzerland’s International Institute for Management Development ( IMD) world competitiveness list published on Tuesday (June 18). According to the report, the top 10 countries were: Singapore, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Hong Kong, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Netherlands, and Norway.

Raring to go

From left, table tennis player Lin Yun-ju, boxer Huang Hsiao-wen and badminton duo Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin attend a news confernece hosted by ELTA TV in Taipei yesterday. It was announced at the ...

US to deliver TOW-2B missiles this year

Photo: Lo Pei-de, Taipei Times So far, none of the weapons systems listed ... which has sufficient funding to finance studies in any new discipline. ‘SAFER TAIWAN’: The president told ‘Time’ magazine ...

EDITORIAL: Thorny politics of budget reform

The Ministry of Finance calculated that the central government would need to release an additional NT$577.7 billion (US$17.84 billion) to local governments a year under the KMT’s amendment. Coupled ...