New look - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
Children play at a semi-indoor playground in Kaohsiung’s Fongshan District yesterday. The playground was once the Kaohsiung Railway Workshop, and many of its structural elements were preserved and...
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top 35%Fed chair signals rate hikes might be needed with US inflation still elevated - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Friday said inflation is still too high and suggested that the central bank might have to raise interest rates in the coming months to bring it down, a...
Fuel prices to stay steady for the fifth consecutive week - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) on Saturday announced that it would leave domestic gasoline and diesel prices unchanged this week, with Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) yesterday saying it would do...
Day traders abandoning S Korean leveraged ETFs - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
An onerous mock trading course is becoming an effective tool for South Korea to cool investor fervor over risky products that have turned the country’s US$4.3 trillion stock market extremely...
TSMC Q2 employee bonuses rise more than 50% - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) has increased its second-quarter employee bonuses by more than 50 percent from a year earlier, as the world’s largest contract chipmaker posted...
Semicon to put spotlight on CPO, silicon photonics - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
Silicon photonics and copackaged optics (CPO), technologies seen as critical to meeting the surging bandwidth demands of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, would be among the main themes...
Powering Pacific ties - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
Palauan President Surangel S. Whipps Jr., center, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung, right, cut a ribbon during the inauguration ceremony for Taiwan-funded solar energy and electric bus...
Low-pressure system to bring heavy rain to Taiwan - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
A low-pressure system over the South China Sea is expected to bring the heaviest rainfall of the coming week to Taiwan today and tomorrow, with southern and central areas as well as Taitung County...
Long-awaited Guangci/Fengtian Temple MRT Station opens in Taipei - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The Taipei MRT’s Guangci/Fengtian Temple Station opened yesterday, improving public transportation in eastern Xinyi District (信義) and potentially boosting local development after one of the city’s...
Man’s story of being tracked down for taking receipt from trash sparks debate - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
A man’s story about being tracked down and questioned by police after taking a discarded receipt from a trash can has sparked a heated debate on social media.
Taipei Zoo celebrates giant panda’s 22nd birthday - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The Taipei Zoo yesterday celebrated giant panda Yuan Yuan’s (圓圓) 22nd birthday with a feast featuring a “fruit and vegetable train” loaded with specially prepared treats.
Coalition recycles fishing nets to make glasses - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) is collaborating with the Marine Debris Recycling Coalition to repurpose marine waste, with plans to provide 2,000 pairs of protective glasses made from...
TIPC establishes command center at Kaohsiung Port - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
Taiwan International Ports Corp (TIPC) has established an operations command center at the Kaohsiung Port Cruise Terminal to monitor all commercial ports under its jurisdiction.
KMT planning campaign for referendum - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said it was planning 100 local events and launching a social media campaign to rally support for a referendum on whether to abolish the government’s...
Deaths related to kidney disease rise - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The number of deaths, the mortality rate and the age-standardized mortality rate associated with kidney disease all increased in Taiwan last year, with healthcare providers warning of the growing...
‘Second Theatre Command’ laptop display sparks false alarm - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
A Taiwanese man whose laptop displayed the phrase “Second Theatre Command” at Taipei Main Station sparked online fears that he was a Chinese national conducting surveillance, but police yesterday...
TSG Hawks to remove Hong Kong singer from series - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The TSG Hawks baseball team announced on Saturday that they had canceled Hong Kong singer and actor Daniel Chan’s (陳曉東) scheduled performance at an event next month following fan backlash over his...
Ministry relaxes investment subsidy regulations - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has amended its regulations on investment subsidies for businesses investing in countries with which Taiwan has diplomatic relations, raising the maximum subsidy to...
NT$1bn proposed for Eswatini project - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
The government has proposed spending NT$1 billion (US$31.6 million) to build an innovative industrial park in Eswatini, aiming to support industrial upgrading and economic transformation in...
Military updates arsenal with automated systems - Taipei Times
Taipei Times31 Aug 2026
A newly relocated military arsenal in Kaohsiung has significantly improved its safety management and production capacity through the use of automated systems, as part of the military’s ongoing...