Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) on the same day said Lai was “playing with fire” by pledging to increase Taiwan’s defense budget, and that his plans are “an investment in war” that would transform ...

Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a four-day trip to Turkey yesterday after a warm welcome by its tiny Christian community, before heading to Lebanon with a message of peace for the crisis-mired nation. On his ...

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators have proposed caning as a punishment for online scammers. As many as 92 percent of respondents in a poll said fraud in Taiwan is severe, and more than 70 ...

Thousands of demonstrators, including Catholic Church clergy, protested in the Philippines yesterday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption ...

Filming for a documentary to commemorate the legacy of women’s rights activist Peng Wan-ru (彭婉如), called A Journey in Search of Wan-ru’s Footsteps (尋找婉如足跡之旅), is under way, the Democratic Progressive ...

Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a family gathering in California on Saturday night, US police said, calling it a “targeted incident.” The shooting took place inside a banquet ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply escalated his threats against Venezuela with an ominous warning that the country’s airspace should be considered “closed,” raising fears of imminent ...

Democratic Progressive Party legislators Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) and Wang Yi-chuan (王義川) have proposed amendments to the Anti-infiltration Act (反滲透法) to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from ...

The subclade K variant of the influenza A (H3N2) virus was reported by the Centers for Disease Control yesterday as the dominant flu strain in many countries, adding that flu vaccines were still ...

Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) is to brief the Legislative Yuan today on the Ministry of National Defense’s plans to increase specialty pay for drone operators, cyberwarfare, air ...

Micron Technology Inc is to spend ￥1.5 trillion (US$9.6 billion) to build a plant in western Japan to make memory chips for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the Nikkei reported on Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling that sentenced a man in Tainan to 20 years in prison for killing his bedridden mother who had dementia. The ruling was final. The court filing said the ...