Taipei: Premier Cho Jung-tai on Tuesday announced an expansive suite of family support initiatives, including extended parental leave and housing tax incentives for parents, as part of Taiwan’s strategy to counteract its declining birth rate. This ann…
Taipei: A 75,000-kilogram shipment of imported Vietnamese black rice was blocked at the border after pesticide residue was detected, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) said Tuesday. The batch was found to contain 0.04 parts per million (pp…
Chiayi: On a stretch of open land in southern Taiwan, an engineer from Thunder Tiger Corp. wearing first-person view goggles guides an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) through a series of sharp turns before bringing it down for a controlled landing. Near…
Geneva: President Lai Ching-te stated on Monday that Taiwan’s membership in the World Health Organization (WHO) would enable it to significantly enhance its contributions to global health. In a prerecorded video message for the Taiwan Global Health Fo…
Taipei: Nearly 60 percent of junior high school students in Taiwan have had classes such as physical education and arts replaced by core academic subjects, according to a survey released Monday by the nonprofit Child Welfare League Foundation. The fin…
Taipei: Taiwan shares ended down 280.54 points, or 0.68 percent, at 40,891.82 Monday on turnover of NT$990.47 billion (US$31.04 billion).
According to Focus Taiwan, the trading day saw a decline as the stock market reacted to various economic indic…
