FEARS are mounting over potential Chinese sabotage after a deep sea cable was reportedly sliced off near the Taiwanese coast. Tensions in the region could boil over in 2025 with China’s ...
Foxconn fourth-quarter revenue up 15.2%
Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and Apple's biggest iPhone assembler, reported on Sunday that its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2%, reaching a record high for the ...
Taiwan bars Chinese media reporters due to ‘united front work’ activities
Taiwanese authorities will also prohibit the newspaper's parent organisation, Fujian Daily Newspaper Group, from assigning reporters to Taiwan ...
Band lead singer, 36, falls to death while setting up stage for Taipei New Year’s Eve countdown event
His loved ones were upset that the stage construction was allowed to continue despite being told that the inspection report would take 30 days to complete.
Chinese ship cuts cable near Keelung Harbor
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) and Chunghwa Telecom yesterday confirmed that an international undersea cable near Keelung Harbor had been cut by a Chinese ship, the Shunxin-39, a freighter ...
Taipei councilors question TRTC lost item handling
Taipei city councilors yesterday raised questions about Taipei Rapid Transit Corp’s (TRTC) handling of lost goods, suggesting that the company review and change its methods. The company takes custody ...
Elon Musk praises Taiwan’s ‘tech talent’
Elon Musk, CEO of US electric vehicle brand Tesla, praised Taiwan’s “massive” pool of tech talent as the basis for its success in the semiconductor industry in an X post on Dec. 28. “The massive ...
Yoon Suk-yeol resists arrest as two camps protest
Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital yesterday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for imposing a short-lived martial ...
Disinformation attacks from China doubled last year: Taiwan
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) has revealed a significant increase in disinformation attacks from China, with reported cases nearly doubling in 2024 compared to the previous year, Taipei ...
Taiwan intercepts ship with Chinese name suspected to have damaged underwater cable
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Coast Guard Administration intercepted a Cameroon-registered container ship with a Chinese name after it was suspected of damaging an undersea cable north of Taiwan on ...
Taiwan criticises China’s ID card push as ‘illusion’
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has condemned China’s efforts to issue Chinese ID cards to Taiwanese citizens, calling it an attempt to create the illusion of legal sovereignty over Taiwan, ...
Taiwan says China is redoubling efforts to undermine democracy with disinformation
Taiwan's government says China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island's democracy with the spread of disinformation, especially online ...
Beijing’s pilot zone for economic integration with Taiwan running out of steam
By 2022 there were over 3,000 people and nearly 1,300 enterprises from Taiwan in Pingtan, Fujian, but the cross-strait beacon is dimming Fujian province has become a test bed for mainland China's push ...
Why AI Chip Stocks Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Arm Holdings Rallied Today
Shares of artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor stocks Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM), and Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) rallied on Friday, up 4.5%, 3.5%, and ...
Property transactions in 2024 reach 11-year high
Transactions of homes, shops, offices and factories in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung totaled 271,309 units, up 14.7 percent from a year earlier and an 11-year high, ...
Cities seek NT$1.93bn for MRT damage
The Taipei and New Taipei City governments yesterday said they would seek NT$1.93 billion (US$58.6 million) in compensation from the company responsible for building the Circular MRT Line, following ...