Taipei: Taiwan’s Legislative Research Bureau recently issued a report analyzing the potential relaxation of kinship marriage laws, following a high-profile case in Kaohsiung where a couple’s marriage was retroactively dissolved. According to Focus Taiwan, the debate began when a couple discovered that their grandmothers were sisters, making them second cousins

Taipei: The Legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee passed a motion on Monday condemning China’s actions concerning Taiwan citizens alleged to be military intelligence workers. The motion, spearheaded by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, criticized China’s provincial governments for offering cash bounties to capture individuals accused of psychological operations

Taipei: The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced the winning numbers for Taiwan’s September-October uniform invoice lottery, with the NT$10 million (US$320,000) special prize awarded to the number 25834483. According to Focus Taiwan, the NT$2 million grand prize number was 46587380, while the three NT$200,000 first-prize numbers were 41016094, 98081574, and

Taipei: President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday thanked visiting Eswatini House of Assembly Speaker Jabulani Mabuza for his country’s vocal support for Taiwan at this year’s U.N. General Assembly. During a meeting at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Lai noted that Eswatini’s King Mswati III had used his address at the

Taipei: Taiwan’s government should take a more active role in regulating outbound foreign direct investment (FDI), especially as geopolitical tensions make advanced technology more strategically sensitive, experts said Tuesday. At a conference on strategic resilience in Taipei, Lee Wen-chieh, an economics associate professor at National Chengchi University, emphasized that Taiwan’s

Taipei: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced on Tuesday that it has initiated legal action against former executive Lo Wei-jen, accusing him of breaching employment terms by allegedly misappropriating trade secrets and sharing them with Intel Corp, a key competitor in the U.S. According to Focus Taiwan, TSMC has filed