Kaohsiung: The Kaohsiung District Court has sentenced a man, identified by his surname Lee, to four years in prison for selling chili powder containing the banned industrial dye Sudan Red. The dye is prohibited in Taiwan due to its harmful properties. Alongside the prison sentence, three of Lee’s companies have
Taipei: Taiwan’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.48 percent year-on-year in October, with pork prices surging 9.07 percent-the steepest increase in nearly 20 months-the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said Thursday. According to Focus Taiwan, although inflation had stayed below the 2 percent alert level for six straight
Taipei: Former Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official Lee Chien-yu was sentenced Thursday to five years and two months in prison for the sexual assault of four women between 2022 and 2023. Lee, previously the head of the EPA Inspectorate’s Inspection Team, faced a Taichung District Court ruling that found him
Taipei: Taiwan’s military anticipates the arrival of the first two of four MQ-9B “SkyGuardian” drones from the United States in the third quarter of the upcoming year, as outlined in the schedule. This update was provided by Air Force Chief of Staff Lee Ching-jan during a session of the Legislative
Taipei: Taiwan’s defense ministry has taken a significant step by establishing an artificial intelligence (AI) office aimed at exploring the potential military applications of this emerging technology, a senior military official announced on Thursday. Lt. Gen. Huang Wen-chi, the director of the Ministry of National Defense’s (MND) Department of Strategic
