October 4, 2023
Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two leaders of the island’s tiny Taiwan People’s Communist Party on accusations they colluded with China in an effort to influence next year’s elections for president and members of the legislative assembly. Party Chairman Lin Te-wang and Vice Chairman Chen Chien-hsin were accused on Tuesday of violating the Anti-Infiltration Act
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Typhoon Koinu started pounding Taiwan with heavy rain and winds on Wednesday, closing business and schools in the east and triggering warnings in most parts of the island a day before its expected landfall, forecasters said. Koinu, which formed over the weekend, was about 150 miles east of Taiwan on Wednesday morning, the island’s Central
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Typhoon Koinu, traveling westward from the Pacific, was strengthening as it moved toward Taiwan, meteorologists on the island said Monday. The storm was expanding in size and was expected to make landfall by Thursday morning, they said. Koinu was moving northwest with sustained winds of 89 mph and gusts of up to 112 mph, according
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Taiwan has unveiled its first domestically built submarine, demonstrating its determination to push back against growing military pressure from China. Completion of the vessel, which has taken almost seven years at a cost of NT$49.4bn ($1.5bn), is a milestone for Taiwan, which has struggled for decades to buy submarines and acquire the technology to build
READ MORE Officials in Taiwan were preparing on Monday for the arrival of Typhoon Koinu, which forecasters said was moving toward the island, with landfall possible on Thursday morning. The storm, which formed over the weekend, was about 480 miles southeast of Taiwan on Monday afternoon, according to the island’s Central Weather Administration. It was moving west-northwest
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — After declaring his intention to run for president in late August, Terry Gou, the Taiwanese billionaire founder of Foxconn who some have compared to Donald Trump, is now an officially registered independent candidate. Gou resigned as a board member of Foxconn in early September, citing a need to focus on the election. He
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LOGISTICS and remittance service provider LBC Express Holdings Inc. on Friday said it was set to acquire Taiwan-based Blue Eagle and LBC Service Ltd. following approval from the Republic of China’s (ROC) regulatory agency. LBC Express said it had been notified the previous day about the regulator’s nod regarding its acquisition of 100-percent equity in
READ MORE THE National Dairy Authority (NDA) and the Taiwan Livestock Research Institute entered into a partnership for agricultural research and exploration particularly in the dairy industry. NDA Administrator Gabriel Lagamayo and TLRI Director General Jeng-Fang Huang led the signing of the memorandum of understanding in Taichung, Taiwan, on September 26, solidifying their commitment to collaborative efforts
READ MORE Chen Siming, an activist who fled China, has been camped out at an airport in Taiwan for nearly a week, hoping to gain asylum in the West. He is willing to wait for much longer, as long as he is not forced to board a plane back to China. Mr. Chen, 60, is among a
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President Tsai Ing-wen launched a submarine programme in 2016 with the aim of delivering a fleet of eight vessels. Taiwan unveiled its first domestically built submarine Thursday as the massively outgunned island seeks to bolster defences against China, which slammed the strategy as “idiotic nonsense”. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, and has in
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