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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told sailors aboard a combat-ready warship at a major base in the Taiwan Strait on Friday that he had their backs, thanking them for safeguarding Taiwanese security at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing.

Taiwan's semiconductor industry, a linchpin of the global tech supply chain, is grappling with an existential challenge: how to maintain growth while dramatically reducing its environmental footprint.

Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes has been selected to open the 2024 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival where it will also make its Asian premiere. The festival takes place from Nov 7 to 24.

China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait.

He has been embroiled in a corruption scandal involving a property development. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Moscow and Beijing lashed out at Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te after he said China would reclaim land lost to Russia if its territorial concerns were driving its claim over Taiwan. "In a recent interview on Taiwanese TV program The View with Catherine Chang,

The Taipei District Court ruled on Thursday that Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je should be detained and held incommunicado over alleged corruption from when he served as Mayor of

Amongst those accused is Naura Technology Group, one of the suppliers to China’s largest chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. The organization has denied the allegations, affirming that the Taiwan office was established “in accordance with local laws and regulations.”