Taipei: Professional 9-dan Go player Hsu Hao-hung, the gold medalist in the Hangzhou Asian Games men’s individual event, topped all other Taiwanese players in 2025 with his prize earnings of nearly NT$5 million (US$158,272). According to Focus Taiwan, the rankings released by the HaiFong Go Association, which oversees domestic professional

Taipei: Taiwanese film “Left-Handed Girl” has been selected as one of the 15 films shortlisted for the Oscar for the best international feature film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy released the list early Tuesday morning (Taipei time), selecting from films submitted by 86 countries

Tainan: A 48-year-old man was ordered detained Tuesday after allegedly driving drunk and rear-ending a garbage truck in Tainan’s Anping District, killing a 23-year-old sanitation worker who was standing behind the truck at the time, prosecutors said. Video of the accident, which occurred around 8 a.m. Tuesday, showed a passenger

Taipei: Taiwan Sugar Corp. (Taisugar), the National Atomic Research Institute (NARI), and Nice Enterprise Co., Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a project focused on recycling carbon generated during the sugar-making process. The initiative aims to integrate carbon-capture technologies and equipment developed by NARI into the

Taipei: All QR codes at Taiwan’s airports are safe and the Taiwan Arrival Card (TWAC) filing process is free, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) stated Tuesday amid reports that a Japanese tourist was scammed by an unidentified QR code. Some media outlets reported that the visitor was scammed after arriving

Taipei: Taiwan’s military has spotted China’s new aircraft carrier, the Fujian, for the first time since it was commissioned, making a transit through the Taiwan Strait and released a surveillance photograph of it. In a statement Wednesday, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said it closely monitored the Fujian’s passage