An annual Eid al-Fitr celebration organized by the Taipei City government will take place on Sunday after a two-year hiatus, but visitors will have to show proof of at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to gain entry into the event’s main areas.Fest…
Costco Taiwan, a membership-based American wholesale club, announced it will raise prices of its own-brand toilet paper by almost 9 percent, effective on Tuesday, amid rising raw pulp prices worldwide.Costco said a pack of its self-brand toilet paper -…
Opposition parties on Tuesday urged the government to boost COVID-19 testing capacity to improve the efficacy of disease control as Taiwan experiences a surge in domestic cases.The government must come up with better plans since the current rationing s…
One of the severe domestic COVID-19 cases reported by Taiwan on Monday involved the youngest person to date — an infant under 1 year old — to develop a severe infection from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).The bab…
Taiwan is ranked the third-best destination for investment in the latest U.S. Business Environment Risk Intelligence (BERI) report, up one notch from a year earlier, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) cited the report as saying on Monday.In the re…
A recent study carried out by National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) in Kaohsiung has found microplastics in most of the batches of marine dried fish it studied from seven Asian countries, suggesting a potential health risk.The findings were highlight…
Taiwanese hurdlers won two silver medals and one bronze medal at the 2022 Kinami Michitaka Memorial Athletics Meet in Osaka, Japan on Sunday.In the men’s 110m hurdles final, Chen Kuei-ru (???) finished in 13.51 seconds, which was just 0.01 seconds behi…
The opposition Kuomintang has proposed a law amendment requiring the central government to subsidize Taiwan’s Labor Insurance Fund by at least NT$80 billion (US$2.71 billion) per year to prevent it from going bankrupt, KMT legislative caucus whip Tseng…