Taipei: Taiwan will apply for World Health Organization (WHO) hepatitis C certification in November or December after achieving its 2030 target, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW). According to Focus Taiwan, Taiwan has already met the WHO’s 2030 hepatitis C elimination benchmarks. The ministry reported that both

Tokyo: Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL), a Japan-based supplier to TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has dismissed an employee from its Taiwan branch for obtaining proprietary information related to TSMC’s cutting-edge 2-nanometer process. In a statement issued Thursday, TEL said the dismissed employee had worked for its Taiwan subsidiary and

Taipei: President Lai Ching-te on Thursday reaffirmed Taiwan’s support for Ukraine and voiced hope for closer bilateral ties during a meeting with a visiting cross-party delegation from Ukraine’s parliament. Lai said even though Taiwan and Ukraine are geographically far away from each other, both are on the frontlines of defending

Taipei: The Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau announced Thursday that 16 Chinese tech companies are being scrutinized for setting up offices in Taiwan without authorization and hiring local talent illegally. According to Focus Taiwan, over 300 investigators were deployed between July 15 and August 6 to conduct searches at 70

Taipei: A woman in her 40s has been confirmed as Taiwan’s first case of chikungunya fever imported from China in 2025, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced on Thursday. The woman had traveled to Guangdong Province’s Foshan and Shenzhen in mid-July and returned to Taiwan on July 30. She

Taipei: Aftershocks from a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck off the coast of Yilan County at 3:45 p.m. could reach a magnitude of 5 to 5.5, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA) Thursday. At a Thursday press conference, technical officer Chiu Chun-ta of the CWA’s Seismological Center explained that