PUBLIC WARNING: The two students had been tricked into going to Hong Kong for a ‘high-paying’ job, which sent them to a scam center in Cambodia
Police warned the public not to trust job advertisements touting high pay abroad following the return of two college students over the weekend who had been trafficked and forced to work at a cyberscam center in Cambodia.The two victims, surnamed Lee (李), 18, and Lin (林), 19, were interviewed by poli
Nine retired generals from Taiwan, Japan and the US have been invited to participate in a tabletop exercise hosted by the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science Foundation tomorrow and Wednesday that simulates a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2030, the foundation said yesterday.Th
US President Donald Trump yesterday ordered California National Guard troops to Los Angeles, a rare deployment against the state governor’s wishes after sometimes-violent protests against immigration enforcement raids. Trump took federal control of California’s state military to push soldiers into t
A Chinese ship ran aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-controlled island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on alert, Philippine military officials said yesterday.When Philippine forces assessed that the Chinese fishing vessel appeared to have
QUANTUM TRANSFORMATION: The project would include four new technologies, including intelligent robots, quantum computing, silicon photonics and sovereign AI
In keeping with President William Lai’s (賴清德) vision of transforming Taiwan into an “artificial intelligence [AI] island,” the Executive Yuan has pushed forward a new “10 major AI infrastructure projects” program, which is expected to be introduced in the second half of the year.The plan is being di
COORDINATION: The exercises ‘deepen relationships’ with Asian allies to ensure an effective response to regional crises, a US commander said
Drills in East Asia this summer by the US military body charged with moving munitions and equipment would help it better coordinate and communicate with allies in response to a crisis, its commander said on Friday.Alarmed by growing Chinese assertiveness, whether in the disputed South China Sea or a
Taiwan is prepared to step up collaborations with the US to build a supply chain decoupled from Chinese sources, bolstering bilateral economic resilience and ushering in global technological development, Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an (潘孟安) said at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Con
Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles, drones and bombs across Ukraine early yesterday, killing at least five people as it retaliated for a brazen attack by Kyiv on air bases days earlier. The Kremlin has accelerated its attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, as direct negotiations have failed to brok
The US Department of State on Friday instructed US embassies and consulates not to revoke visas previously issued to people from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries under US President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, which goes into effect tomorrow.In a cable sent to all US diplomatic missi
’DISTORTION’: Beijing’s assertion that the US agreed with its position on Taiwan is a recurring tactic it uses to falsely reinforce its sovereignty claims, MOFA said
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said Chinese state media deliberately distorted Taiwan’s sovereign status, following reports that US President Donald Trump agreed to uphold the “one China” policy in a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).During the more than one-hour-l
TRADE TALKS: Taipei met the treasury department’s criteria for trade and current account surpluses, and the US did not ask it to appreciate its currency
The US Department of the Treasury has retained Taiwan on its currency monitoring list, a move that reflects smooth communication between Taiwan and the US, and the absence of appreciation pressure on the New Taiwan dollar amid efforts to ease bilateral trade imbalances, the central bank said yesterd
Starting this year, June 15 is to be observed as Police Day, with all police agencies and academies granted the day off, the Ministry of the Interior announced yesterday.The move follows the Legislative Yuan’s passage last month of amendments to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holida
Americans considered the consequences yesterday of the spectacular split between Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump, who threatened to strip the world’s richest man of his huge government contracts.Trump and Musk’s unlikely political marriage exploded in a fiery public divorce on Thursday.The p
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace, even as Germany’s new chancellor appealed to him as the “key person in the world” who could halt the bloodshed by pressuring Russian Presiden
GROWING CLOSER: Arevalo said his administration was seeking to develop a new chapter in Taiwan-Guatemala relations with enhanced economic and trade cooperation
Taiwan and Guatemala yesterday signed two agreements to boost cooperation on semiconductors and establish a new mechanism for political consultations, as President William Lai (賴清德) met with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo at the Presidential Office in Taipei.The two countries will continue to
WIDER VIEW: The scope of background checks would be expanded to include contacts with domestic groups that are suspected of being controlled by foreign forces
New amendments for vetting civil servants are to take effect today, starting with the top members of the Executive Yuan, following a rise in incidents of suspected spying.The premier and vice premier, as well as the secretary-general and two deputy secretaries-general, are to be the first to undergo
Taiwan yesterday denied Chinese allegations that its military was behind a cyberattack on a technology company in Guangzhou, after city authorities issued warrants for 20 suspects.The Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau earlier yesterday issued warrants for 20 people it identified as members
At least five people, including a one-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed yesterday in a nighttime Russian drone strike that hit the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, officials said, hours after US President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Six
South Korea’s liberal-led legislature yesterday overwhelmingly passed bills to launch special investigations into former president Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December last year and criminal allegations against his wife, targeting the ousted conservative a day after his
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