A bipartisan pair of US senators on Monday urged President Donald Trump’s administration to tighten rules on chip contract manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to prevent them from making advanced AI chips for overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies. This comes after the Trump administration last week moved to halt a potential loophole that … Continue reading US lawmakers urge tighter rules on contract chipmakers supplying Chinese firms’ overseas units
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A Fujian-born woman who settled in Taiwan was sentenced to life imprisonment after murdering and dismembering her younger boyfriend in a case that shocked the island. The woman, identified as Huang, 46, killed her 35-year-old boyfriend, Lan, in 2014 amid disputes over money and a property sale. According to investigators, Huang believed Lan should not … Continue reading Taiwan murder case: Fujian woman’s ‘grieving partner act’ exposed after killing a boyfriend 11 years her junior
A pair of young red pandas gifted by Shanghai Zoo arrived in Taipei early on Saturday, marking the first cross-strait animal exchange in 12 years and a concrete outcome of a memorandum signed at the 2024 Shanghai-Taipei City Forum. The male red panda, aged three, and the female, aged two, are in good health after … Continue reading 2 red pandas from Shanghai arrive in Taipei, to meet public in July
Taiwan needs to "spend smarter" on its defences and learn lessons from the Ukraine and Middle East wars on using drones to ensure the military balance with China, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taipei said on Saturday. While Taiwan's government has prioritised drones and other asymmetric systems for its military modernisation programme, the opposition-dominated … Continue reading Taiwan needs to ‘spend smarter’ on its defence, senior US diplomat says
Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, is striving to keep up with demand and avoid becoming a bottleneck in the global supply chain during the relentless boom in artificial intelligence, its CEO said on Thursday. C.C. Wei, speaking at the company's annual shareholder meeting in the Taiwanese city of Hsinchu, said customers are still … Continue reading TSMC working hard to meet chip demand, would ‘like’ to hike prices
New Zealand said on Thursday it would express its concerns to Beijing after China banned four New Zealand lawmakers from entry following their visit to Taiwan last month. A spokesperson for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand lawmakers had visited the democratically governed island for decades. "Such visits are not inconsistent with New Zealand's One China policy," the spokesperson said, referring to its policy since 1972 of recognising Beijing as the sole … Continue reading New Zealand expresses concern over China lawmaker ban after Taiwan trip
