Taiwan shares closed up 91.12 points, or 0.6 percent, at 15,288.97 on Friday on turnover of NT$205.35 billion (US$6.85 billion).Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel

Live-in migrant caregivers and domestic helpers in Taiwan have blasted the government for a new wage hike policy that will not immediately apply to tens of thousands of migrants already employed in the country and lead to inequality.The wage increase a…

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate for Taoyuan mayor Lin Chih-chien (???) has withdrawn his candidacy after having been found to have plagiarized another person’s work in his master’s degree thesis.Lin’s withdrawal on Friday came…