Evergreen Marine will give its 3,100 workers another NT$1.9 billion Taiwanese shipping companies are handing out massive mid-year bonuses to their employees despite a slump in global cargo. According to a report by Economic Daily News, Yang Ming Marine Transport is awarding workers up to 30 months’ salary on their next payday after shareholders approved […]
China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. (File) Taipei: The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday accompanied by two other ships, Taiwan’s defence ministry said, in the latest uptick in military tensions over the island Beijing claims as its own territory. The ministry […]
Japan’s wartime enslavement of women is a politically charged issue (Representational) Taipei: Taiwan’s last known survivor of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, the island’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, calling the issue a “wound in human history”. Referred to as “comfort women”, more than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by […]
The former UK PM Liz Truss demanded the West get tough with Beijing. London: British former prime minister Liz Truss, on a visit to Taiwan Wednesday, will set up a full-throated clash with both China and her successor Rishi Sunak in demanding the West get tough with Beijing. In a speech in Taipei, Truss is […]
The US will soon send additional security assistance to Taiwan, the US Defence Secretary said. Washington: The United States will soon send additional security assistance to Taiwan, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday. “The United States will soon provide significant additional security assistance to Taiwan through (the) presidential drawdown authority that Congress authorized […]
China claims Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to bring the island under its control one day. Beijing: Criticising China over Taiwan will have dangerous consequences, Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Friday, as he insisted Beijing is a “growing force for peace and justice”. Two weeks ago, China launched three days of military exercises […]
Accordin to a report, Taiwan will buy as many as 400 land-launched Harpoon missile from US. Taipei City: Taiwan will buy as many as 400 U.S. land-launched Harpoon missiles in the face of rising threat from China, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing a trade group’s leader and people familiar with the issue. A contract […]
