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Beijing: China’s military was on “high alert” Thursday and Beijing said it had lodged a complaint with Tokyo after a Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time. Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the reports at a regular briefing because they concerned military operations. But Beijing confirmed…
The Formosan black bear is one of seven subspecies of Asiatic black bear, vulnerable to extinction. Taichung, Taiwan: As the cage holding an endangered Formosan black bear swung open conservationists blasted gunshots and air horns to ensure the frightened young bear disappeared quickly into the mountains of central Taiwan, hopefully far from human contact. Ziman,…
“When I watched Dangal with Chinese subtitles a few years ago, I noticed an uncanny resemblance between the wrestlers’ father and my own,” says Chen Shih-hsin, Taiwan’s first-ever Olympic gold medallist. Chen clinched gold in the women’s flyweight division (49-kilogram category) in Taekwondo at the 2004 Athens Olympics, ending a 72-year-long gold medal drought for…
TSMC is the world’s largest contract chipmaker (REUTERS/Ann Wang/ File Photo) Taipei: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the main producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, is expected to report a 30% rise in second-quarter profit on Thursday thanks to soaring demand.The world’s largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, has benefited…