Sat, Oct 21, 2017
Police investigate acid attack at NTU
Taipei police were yesterday investigating an acid attack at a National Taiwan University (NTU) dormitory, where the alleged perpetrator is suspected of having committed suicide after harming three people, one of whom is believed to be his former boyfriend. The suspect, a 25-year-old ...FULL STORY
Taiwan, the US drop Formosat-7 satellite plans
FUNDING PROBLEM: The second stage of the 12-satellite program has been canceled, with six satellites scheduled...FULL STORYRecall campaign achieves threshold
A campaign for a recall election aimed at New Power Party (NPP) Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌)...FULL STORY
Army admonished for White Terror-era rights abuses Army admonished for White Terror-era rights abuses
The Control Yuan yesterday issued the Ministry of National Defense a correction for lawless conduct and...FULL STORYJapanese emperor set to abdicate in March 2019
Japanese Emperor Akihito is to step down on March 31, 2019, a report said yesterday, the first imperial...FULL STORY
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No consensus on ‘1992 consensus’: Lai
The issue with the so-called “1992 consensus” is that there is no...FULL STORY
- Petition to jump time zone passes official threshold
- Touring film festival marks end of martial law
- CSBC prepared to take over minesweeper contract
- Flag not ‘removed’ from Web site, was never there: MOFA
- Taipei experiments with community care model
- ACUVUE contact lenses are recalled
- Most lunchboxes break sodium intake guideline
- Taiwan wins four WorldSkill golds
- Kaohsiung man confesses to murdering his daughter
- Bureau promoting self-governance of Aboriginal hunting
- Xi to push unification: academic
- The US calls on Taipei, Beijing to settle differences
- Committee backs officer extensions
- Veterans Affairs Council to expand its vocational courses for military retirees
- Cabinet extends ministry merger act until 2020
- IC to be installed in identity cards
- Culture minister denies bid in Taipei mayoral election
Largan ups bonuses to retain workers
Largan Precision Co (大立光), the world’s leading smartphone camera lens supplier, yesterday...FULL STORY
- Export orders end higher than expected
- Rexon expects higher Q4 revenue on fitness demand
- Investments from the ‘New Southbound’ nations up 25%
- Taipower to issue ‘green’ bonds of up to NT$8.5bn
- Sprinta acquires the Bellazza Taipei Hotel for NT$5.58bn
- Australian manufacturer Holden produces last car
- Workers protest at iPhone supplier in China
- Cities, states offer billions in tax breaks to lure Amazon
- Rio talks with Indonesia on exiting Grasberg mine
- Banks’ connection to South Africa’s Gupta case probed
- Lyft gets US$1bn from Alphabet to rev up challenge to Uber
- World Business Quick Take
- Support for bill on foreign professionals
- Lack of government guarantees concerns lawmakers
- TSMC expecting quarterly growth of 10 percent for Q4
- 7Starlake to join EasyMile in autonomous car venture
- China Life to pay NT$1 for part of Allianz life portfolio
EDITORIAL: Xi Jinping upstaged by UN report
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) carefully planned anointment as the nation’s greatest...FULL STORY
- Taiwan, China: the European view
- Same-sex couples awaiting justice
- English as an official language is not priority
- Smartphones are killing Americans,
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- Taiwan, democracy and defense
- Chinese, N Korean distrust grows
- US’ UNESCO withdrawal presents an opportunity
- Geoengineers must consider poor nations’ fears
- Record floods push Karachi officials to tackle waste management
- EDITORIAL: Xi’s ‘dream’ has no place in Taiwan
- English skills go beyond textbooks
- Inter-party talks should be broad
- Self-rule is the only option for the nation
- Sexual harassment 101: What everyone needs to know
- EDITORIAL: Government must act on gay marriage
- Taiwanese should care about Rohingya atrocities
Dodgers rout Cubs 11-1 to win NLCS
Enrique Hernandez on Thursday put a Hollywood ending on an Los Angeles...FULL STORY
- Brothers defeat Lions 9-6 in playoff series opener
- Shin, Ji share the lead after day two of Swinging Skirts
- Lyon defeat Everton 2-1 to pile pressure on Koeman
- ‘Quite useful’ dad carries army-bound Noh to CJ Cup lead amid strong wind
- Carr leads Oakland to last-gasp victory against Kansas City
- Baez homers twice as Cubs defeat LA
- Ji takes three-stroke Swinging Skirts lead
- Hazard secures 3-3 draw for Chelsea against Roma
- Harden leads Rockets to 105-100 win over Kings
- Schwartz hat-trick carries Blues over Blackhawks 5-2
- Gymnast reveals abuse by team doctor
- Hayward injured; Celtics lose 102-99
- Dodgers within one win of a World Series return
- FEATURE: Papua’s ‘Black Pearls’ the athletic gems of Indonesia
- Irish president supports nation’s World Cup bid
- Police investigating more than 2,000 child abuse referrals
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Post-festival haze chokes New Delhi
Air pollution in New Delhi yesterday hit 18 times the healthy limit...FULL STORY
- Victoria State edges toward permitting assisted deaths
- Film highlights South Korea’s mega-church scandals
- Czechs poised to hand power to populist tycoon
- Plague cases in Madagascar rise rapidly in days
- Feature: Ancient Turkish town to vanish under floodwaters
- World’s deepest lake in peril, scientists warn
- Obama blasts ‘politics of division’ at election rally
- CIA head warns of other threats after IS defeat
- Infant covered in white powder dies in LA
- Sao Paulo plan to distribute leftover pulp ridiculed
- ‘I knew enough to do more than I did’: Quantin Tarantino
- World News Quick Take
- Ardern gets kingmaker’s nod to lead New Zealand
- Canberra signals an easier English test for immigrants
- Australia’s top spy says foreign meddling increasing
- Cancer linked to herbal remedies
- Russian ‘It Girl’ to run for Kremlin
Chang Tai-shan: Going down swinging
In January 2014, everything seemed to be going well between the Uni-President...FULL STORY
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- Fashion in conflict
- Taiwan off the table
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Diwali
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Diwali, or Deepavali, is one of the most popular festivals of Hinduism,...FULL STORY
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- BTS and other South Korean stars visit Taiwan
BTS 等十幾組韓星 本月將接力登台 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- Wan Jin Shi Marathon registration starts today
萬金石馬拉松今日起報名 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- Now’s the time for Devil’s pods
初秋美饌 吃菱角正是時候 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- Rescue workers abseil down mountain valleys for annual Hehuanshan litter clean up
垂降山谷撿垃圾 救難英雄淨山 - Kaoshiung Police investigating theft case recover stash of rare nautical objects
古董船藝品店竊案偵破 起出珍貴文物 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- USING IDIOMS
活用成語 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- Spacewalkers install ‘new eyes’ at space station
太空人為國際太空站安裝新攝影機 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
- The Exodus of the Rohingya
羅興亞人的流亡 - EVERYDAY ENGLISH
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