5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (513+ words) The authorities have launched 54 probes into suspected foreign election interference and other electoral fraud-related crimes to protect the integrity of the Nov. 28 local elections, the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said yesterday. Special agents launched investigations into illegal foreign campaign…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (436+ words) From left, Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs Deputy Commissioner Liu Te-chien, Taipei City Government Deputy Secretary-General Wang Chung-pin, American Institute in Taiwan Public Diplomacy Section Chief Matthew Cenzer and actress Yeh Hsing-chen pose for a photograph a news conference in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) About 40 percent of teachers experience “extreme fatigue,” while 90 percent have been required to take on extra teaching hours, a survey by the National Substitute Teachers Union found today. Elementary and middle schools have been struggling with teacher shortages in recent…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Students at Taipei’s Ming Hu Junior High School enter the building as the new semester began yesterday. China deploys record number of ships near…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (478+ words) “Blue carbon” produced by coastal ecosystems might “ride” ocean currents for more than 1,000km to fuel deep-ocean carbon sinks, National Sun Yat-sen University researchers said on Thursday. The university’s Carbon Research Lab, led by Hung Chin-chang (洪慶章), a professor of oceanography,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) In any case the feeling lasted only a second: a flicker of unease, as though I were looking at people who had become approximations of themselves. There is a name for that sensation. In a 1970 article, the Japanese robotics professor…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (440+ words) Taiwan’s top industrial trade group, the Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI, 全國工業總會), urged the government yesterday to diversify the nation’s energy mix, step up support for traditional industries and ease restrictions on migrant workers, as a widening labor shortage…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (315+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Workers use shovels to turn longans inside brick kilns at a cultural festival in Nantou County’s Jhongliao Township yesterday. Manual stirring ensures that the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (322+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages People hold Korean-language signs that read “Park Hak-gyu, resign, Jung Hyun-ho, resign” at a protest in front of Samsung Electronics’ Seocho building in Seoul…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (329+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A firefighter uses a headlamp to check a forest floor for burning embers and hot spots in the Landes forest in Luglon, France, on…...