Taipei: Ships registered under the Republic of China (Taiwan) flag ranked a record fifth among 66 flag states in the Asia-Pacific region in 2025, with zero detentions recorded for the second consecutive year, the Ministry of Transportation and Communi…
Taipei: Taiwan will fully subsidize newborn screening tests and add spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) to the list of publicly funded screening items starting in July, Health Minister Shih Chung-liang announced Tuesday. Speaking at the inauguration of an A…
Taipei: The Taipei District Court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at the meeting place of a Buddhist group in the city’s Daan District in 2024. In its verdict, the court sentenced the group’s…
Taipei: The Taiwan Nursing and Medical Industries Union and hospital associations have expressed conflicting views over a proposal by Taiwan’s health authority to postpone the enforcement of mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals by two years….
Taipei: Taiwan’s tertiary student population fell to 1.057 million in the 2025-2026 academic year, a decline of about 295,000, or 21.8 percent, over the past 14 years, according to Ministry of Education (MOE) data.
According to Focus Taiwan, MOE sta…
Paris: Taiwanese inventions on Sunday won 11 gold medals at the 125th edition of the Concours L©pine, an annual invention fair and competition held in Paris. Taiwan’s delegation presented 64 inventions at this year’s fair, which brought together sever…
