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Taipei’s Zhonghua Borough tops list of household incomes
Taipei Times
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July 1, 2025
Taipei’s Zhonghua Borough (中華) replaced Hsinchu City’s Guanxin Borough (關新) with the highest average annual household income among the nation’s boroughs in 2023, income tax data released on Monday by the Ministry of Finance showed. The average...
39.3 degree heat recorded in New Taipei on Wednesday afternoon
Focus Taiwan
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July 2, 2025
Taipei, July 2 (CNA) The Central Weather Administration on Wednesday afternoon updated its heat advisories, warning of temperatures over 38 degrees Celsius in Taoyuan, New Taipei and Kinmen County. The highest temperatures recorded Wednesday as of...
Taiwanese startup HanchorBio signs $200 M deal to expand immuno-oncology reach
Biospectrum Asia
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June 30, 2025
Taiwanese startup HanchorBio signs $200 M deal to expand immuno-oncology reach July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | News A critical milestone for HanchorBio's biopharmaceutical innovation HanchorBio Inc., a Taiwan-based biotechnology startup developing...
All change in Taiwanese banks performance ranking
The Banker
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Cathay United Bank takes the top spot in this year’s best-performing banks ranking in Taiwan, rising from fifth place last year, after recording table-topping scores for growth, profitability and return on risk. CUB saw a 0.9 per cent increase in...
Taipei hotels distort media landscape
Taipei Times
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June 30, 2025
My youngest son attends a university in Taipei. Throughout the past two years, whenever I have brought him his luggage or picked him up for the end of a semester or the start of a break, I have stayed at a hotel near his campus. In doing so, I...
SITA leads biometric-powered check-in upgrade at Taipei Songshan Airport
Biometric Update
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July 1, 2025
Taipei Songshan Airport is upgrading its check-in counters to streamline the check-in experience with SITA leading the change. SITA will deploy self-service and biometrics-powered technology to help Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA) future-proof its...
Wen-tao Cheng, celebrated Taiwanese poet and Yale faculty member
Yale University - Connecticut
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July 1, 2025
Wen-tao Cheng (Cheng, Wen-tao), a distinguished Chinese poet and senior lector emeritus in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, died on June 13 in New Haven. He was 91. Also known by his pen name, Zheng Chou-yu (鄭愁予), he taught at Yale...
Visa-free entry for Taiwanese starts – BI
Philstar
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July 1, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday said Taiwanese tourists could avail themselves of a 14-day visa-free entry to boost tourism and strengthen diplomatic reciprocity in the country. The BI said that this is in compliance...
The rise of Taiwanese rum
The Drinks Business
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July 1, 2025
Taiwanese rum distillers aren’t just replicating; they’re reinventing. Leona De Pasquale finds out more. More than two decades after the end of Taiwan’s 80-year state alcohol monopoly, the island’s wine and spirits scene has never been more...
China’s assassination plot in Prague exposes CCP’s global terror network
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 3, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], July 3 (ANI): National security experts are warning that China may repeat its apparent attempt to target Taiwanese political figures abroad, following revelations of a planned harassing incident during former vice president-elect...
Taipei: Vice-President Hsiao followed in Prague. 'No to intimidation'
Asia News
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June 30, 2025
The Czech intelligence service's complaint against agents of the People's Republic of China, which denies the charges and speaks of “interference in internal affairs”. Meanwhile, today is the deadline for Chinese immigrants in Taiwan to prove that...
Unlicensed ambulance driver kills scooter rider in Taipei
Focus Taiwan
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July 1, 2025
Taipei, July 1 (CNA) An unlicensed ambulance driver ran a red light on Tuesday and crashed into a scooter in Taipei while transporting a patient to a hospital, killing the scooter rider, according to the police. The scooter rider was traveling...
Taiwan extols Nigeria’s diplomatic endeavors in St. Lucia and The Caribbean states
Business Day
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July 3, 2025
Taiwanese government has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s successful State visit to the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia as a truly a landmark achievement in Nigeria diplomacy. “We, the people and Government of Taiwan, wholeheartedly...
TVGH touts platform that diagnoses schizophrenia
Taipei Times
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July 3, 2025
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) on Wednesday touted the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform designed to assist in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, saying it has an accuracy of 91.7 percent and is capable of...
Taiwanese Fishing Boat, Bangladeshi Vessel Collide in South China Sea
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) The Philippines announced on Wednesday that it dispatched a coast guard ship to assist two vessels involved in a collision within the contested South China Sea. The accident occurred Tuesday night near Ilocos Sur province in northern...
Road collapse occurs in Taipei's Songshan District
Focus Taiwan
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July 1, 2025
Taipei, July 1 (CNA) A road collapse occurred at the intersection of Changchun Road and Lane 46 of Qingcheng Street in Taipei on Tuesday, with city authorities finding that it was caused by a dislodged water pipe. Taipei Public Works Department...
Lotte Duty Free taps into growing Taiwanese market with LINE Pay Taiwan launch
The Moodie Davitt Report
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July 1, 2025
SOUTH KOREA. Lotte Duty Free has today (1 July) introduced LINE Pay Taiwan across all of its domestic stores starting this month, enhancing payment convenience for Taiwanese travellers. The initiative reflects growing visitor numbers from Taiwan...
Fresh Taiwanese eggs hit Palau shelves, cutting costs for consumers
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
By: Eoghan Olkeriil Ngirudelsang KOROR, Palau — Taiwanese eggs hit grocery store shelves in Palau for the first time last Friday, offering consumers a more affordable alternative to U.S.-imported eggs, which have soared to over $10 per dozen. The...
US Busts $5 Million North Korean IT Scam — Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese Among Those Arrested
Benzinga
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken a significant step against North Korea’s illicit financial activities, which involve remote IT workers operating within American tech firms. What Happened: The DOJ has announced a series of actions...
Two Taiwanese indicted in U.S. for backing N. Korea's weapons program
Focus Taiwan
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July 1, 2025
Washington, June 30 (CNA) Two Taiwanese nationals were among a group of suspects indicted in Boston on Monday in connection with an alleged scheme to generate revenue for North Korea's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, according to U.S....