Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting won the Olympic women’s boxing championship Saturday in the featherweight class, becoming the second of two fighters whose biological sex has been called into question to capture ...
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US-based organisation urges IOC to allow Taiwan’s team to compete under name ‘Taiwan’ instead of ‘Chinese Taipei’
The Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) and more than a dozen other overseas groups, in a letter, urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow Taiwan’s team to compete under the ...
J.K. Rowling helped Chinese Taipei boxer Lin Yu-ting win gold says coach, calls IBA ‘lunatics’
Tseng Tzu-chiang says Harry Potter author is ‘pride of Taiwan’ after she entered gender row surrounding Lin and Algeria’s Imane Khelif.
Why is Taiwan called Chinese Taipei at the Olympics?
Taiwanese athletes are competing at the Olympics, but they will not be announced as coming from Taiwan. In what is a source of frustration to many Taiwanese, the world has long heard them announced as ...
Korea’s memory chip exports to Taiwan up 225% in H1
Korea’s memory chip exports to Taiwan surged over 225 percent in the first half from a year earlier on robust demand for high-performance high bandwidth memory (HBM)
Mainland China tour group arrives in Taiwan’s Matsu as Beijing eases travel curbs
A seven-member tour group departed from a pier in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, and arrived in the Matsu Islands. They will spend three days exploring tourist attractions including the Giant ...
New York-based artist Jon Burgerman’s ‘Family’ draws crowds in Taipei
British artist Jon Burgerman brought a touch of playful whimsy to Taipei this summer, captivating more than 15,000 visitors with his solo exhibition, "Family," the only one in Asia. Known for his bold colors and childlike figures,
Taiwan takes baby steps to build its own satellite network amid risk of war
TAIPEI – When parts of eastern Taiwan were knocked offline in April following a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that damaged telecom base stations, satellite communications came to the rescue. Within days, the Tianxiang area in Taroko National Park – where ...
Three Chinese aircraft cross into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) said that it detected eight Chinese military aircraft and eight naval vessels were detected, and three of the aircraft entered its Air Defence Identification Zone from 6 am (local time) on Saturday to 6 am (local time) on Sunday.
Record US$20 billion Taiwan defence budget to ‘mostly cover existing expenses’
Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s government is proposing to spend a record NT$647 billion (US$19.9 billion) on defence next year in response to growing threats from Beijing, but relatively little will be available for new weapons,
Should You Buy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSM) Now?
We recently compiled a list of the 10 Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks To Buy According to Financial Media. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Taiwan Semiconductor ...
Financial sector leads Taiwan stocks rebound
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's stock market opened lower Wednesday (July 31) but rebounded to close above the quarterly moving average (MA) of 22,307, with the financial sector rising by 1%, leading ...
Taylor North, Florida, Chinese Taipei and Nicaragua play for titles in the Junior League Baseball World Series
Chinese Taipei is the defending world champion of the Junior League. Taylor North, which won the Little League World Series two years ago, is the defending Junior League United States champion.
Linguistic literacy needs an upgrade
What troubled me even more is that the “critical response” is filled with linguistic inaccuracies itself, at times also misrepresenting me. For example, nowhere in my essay did I stress a “special” similarity of Taiwanese Southern Min to the varieties of Southern Min used in China.
Military aims to develop new scramjet technology
The Ministry of National Defense plans to develop supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, technology linked to hypersonic missile systems, a solicitation notice issued by the ministry for next year ...