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▲華邦電領軍反攻高掛漲停。（圖／記者高兆麟攝）

記者巫彩蓮／台北報導

外電報導伊朗有意與美國談判，以及美國總統川普承諾穩定油市，美股四大指數收紅，今（5）日台股一度強彈1400點，國際記憶體大廠SanDisk、美光、希捷科技等反攻帶動下，旺宏（2337）、南亞科（2408）、華邦電（2334）、青雲（5386）等四檔記憶體族群高掛漲停，威剛（3280）漲幅逾9%，群聯（8299）、創見（2451）、十銓（4967）等漲幅也有半根漲停板。

市場對中東地緣政治緊張情緒緩和，美國科技股大舉反彈，SanDisk在美股4日大漲，終場以上漲33.65美元或5.95%、599.06美元作收；美光以大漲21.09美元或5.55%、400.77美元作收；希捷科技以上漲17.39美元或4.86%、375.01美元作收；西部數據以上漲10.69美元或4.27%、261.3美元作收。

這一波台股修正，漲多記憶體成為市場獲利了結重點族群，近兩個交易日股價呈現急速拉回，南亞科從3月2日291元高點下跌至昨（4）日231元，跌幅約2成，旺宏則是直接摜破百元大關，最低跌至94.2元。

昨日外資大賣逾900億元之際，利用記憶體短線急挫之際，回補旺宏、華邦電、南亞科等三檔個股，日前南亞科高層指出，受惠AI需求成長加上今、明年上半年全球新增產能有限，記憶體市場維持結構性供不應求，預估第一季DRAM平均售價（ASP）季增幅度上看五成，第二季合約價仍有明顯跳升空間。

華邦電則因股價波動大，被要求公布近一個月獲利自結數，一月稅後淨利達27.83億元、年增562.29%，每股稅後盈餘0.62元，由於一月獲利達到去年第四季八成水準，今年第一季獲利可望明顯優於去年同期。

title: 記憶體股滿血復活 華邦電4檔飆漲停 | ETtoday財經雲


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▲麥當勞少女指控遭李姓主管性侵，李男再獲不起訴。（圖／記者黃宥寧翻攝）

記者黃宥寧、劉人豪／台北報導

北市一名17歲少女生前控訴任職麥當勞期間，遭男主管多次性侵與猥褻，進而罹患憂鬱症、最終走上絕路，母親悲痛提告後士林地檢署以罪證不足不起訴。家屬聲請再議後，高等檢察署認定偵查不完備發回續查，士林地檢署偵查終結，今（5）日仍作出不起訴處分。

本案起源於台北市一名少女於2024年11月跳河輕生，悲痛的母親於2024年12月14日於Threads平台發文，「我女兒為什麼會得憂鬱症？為什麼會自殺？因為長達一年被麥當勞的前主管以排班權利對她性侵」母親指稱，家中經濟不好，女兒16歲時就在離家500公尺外的麥當勞打工。但打工期間卻遭主管以排班權力為手段，持續性騷甚至性侵。

▲少女母親(左二)父親(左三)。（圖／記者黃彥傑攝，下同）

母親在文中寫下：「女兒什麼都不敢說，自己偷偷去看醫生，她才16、17歲，那個人竟然下得了手。」她表示，小羽後來終於辭職、鼓起勇氣報警，並向公司提出性騷擾申訴，但公司除了快速開除對方，「對我們就沒有任何交代或慰問。」

根據小羽母親陳述與公開資料，小羽於2022年8月進入麥當勞工作，2024年2月20日提出離職。她在3月3日向警方報案，指控遭李姓主管性侵，並於3月25日向公司提出性騷擾申訴。由於性侵屬刑事偵查範疇，公司僅能依《性別平等工作法》處理性騷擾部分，最後李男也在2024年5月間遭公司開除。

▲17歲少女控遭麥當勞主管性侵案去年再開庭。（圖／記者黃宥寧攝）

至於李男涉嫌性侵的刑案部分，經由士林地檢署分案調查後，檢察官傳喚小羽到案，小羽一開始說遭性侵6次，之後又改口稱被性侵10次，前後供詞不一。此外，李男也在檢察官面前聲稱曾與小羽短暫交往，但分手後仍為朋友，甚至小羽之後另交新男友後，李男也與小羽間仍有聯繫。李男出示通話紀錄，檢方不覺得其間有任何違反意願的對話。另外檢方也傳喚其他證人訊問，最後檢方認為李男未涉有任何妨害性自主的犯行，依罪嫌不足做出不起訴處分。

小羽家人不服，向高等檢察署提出再議。高檢署收案後，認為士林地檢署偵辦本案仍有疑點需要釐清，全案仍有調查必要，因此撤銷士林地檢署對李男的不起訴處分，發回士林地檢署重新偵辦。士林地檢署偵查終結，今日仍作出不起訴處分。

● 《》提醒您，請給自己機會：自殺防治諮詢安心專線：1925；生命線協談專線：1995

journalist: 黃宥寧、劉人豪

events: 性侵 性騷擾

title: 快訊／17歲少女控遭性侵輕生案再議 麥當勞前主管獲不起訴 | ETtoday社會新聞


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▲金正恩前往南浦造船廠，登上最新型驅逐艦「崔賢號」視察，指導海上巡弋飛彈試射。（圖／路透，下同）

記者羅翊宬／編譯

在美軍與以色列對伊朗展開軍事打擊、斬首伊朗最高領袖哈米尼之際，北韓（朝鮮）也同步釋出軍事動向。北韓最高領導人金正恩3至4日連續兩天前往南浦造船廠，視察5000噸級新型驅逐艦「崔賢號」，並親自觀摩至少4枚艦對地戰略巡弋飛彈連續試射，對於海軍核武化相當滿意，外界解讀為對外展示海上核打擊能力。

根據北韓官媒《朝中社》今（5）日報導，金正恩3日登上已完成下水典禮、即將服役的最新型驅逐艦「崔賢號」，檢視艦艇操作訓練、性能與作戰能力評估流程，觀摩航行測試。他評價該艦機動性滿足作戰運用要求，同時要求在新一輪5年國防計畫內，每年建造2艘同級或更高級別水面艦艇，強調必須精準執行水面艦隊建設規劃。

「崔賢號」是北韓首艘5000噸級新型驅逐艦，以最高人民會議常務委員長崔龍海的父親崔賢命名，去年4月25日下水。金正恩強調，他對海軍核武裝化的進度相當滿意。

昨（4）日，金正恩進一步觀摩崔賢號驅逐艦進行的艦對地戰略巡弋飛彈試射。官媒公開畫面顯示，至少4枚巡弋飛彈從艦上連續升空，金正恩在地面全程觀看。北韓去年4月首度公開「崔賢號」武裝測試時，也曾展示巡弋飛彈發射畫面，但這次強調「連續發射能力」，為首次明確對外展示。

對此，韓國國防安保論壇事務總長申宗佑向南韓《韓聯社》分析，北韓意在透過可搭載戰術核彈頭的巡弋飛彈連續發射，凸顯其海上核武力量。他認為，在伊朗緊張情勢升溫背景下，北韓此舉有意向外界釋放訊號，顯示其不僅在陸基系統具備同時大量發射能力，海上平台也能執行類似任務。

南韓軍方表示，4日上午8時30分（台灣時間上午7時30分）偵測到北韓從南浦一帶發射多枚巡弋飛彈。南韓軍方強調，在堅實的美韓聯合防衛態勢下，正密切監控北韓動向，並具備對任何挑釁行為進行「壓倒性回應」的能力。

▲▼金正恩前往平壤視察狙擊手射擊比賽。（圖／路透）

金正恩同時檢視「崔賢級」第3艘艦艇建造進度。《朝中社》指出，他高度評價相關單位力拚在今年10月10日朝鮮勞動黨創建紀念日前，再完成一艘同級驅逐艦。外界推測，北韓正加快同級艦量產節奏，擴大遠洋作戰與海上打擊能力。

除了海軍動向外，金正恩3日還在「狙擊手之日」之際，赴平壤第60訓練基地觀摩各級部隊狙擊手射擊競賽。

journalist: 羅翊宬

countries: 北韓 台灣 以色列 伊朗 韓國

title: 金正恩嚇壞！北韓官媒亮相「連射巡弋飛彈」 親登新型驅逐艦 | ETtoday國際新聞


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▲經典賽登場，中華隊首戰澳洲隊，運彩公會粗估投注金額飆破1.2億元。（圖／何昱奇提供）

記者游瓊華／台中報導

經典棒球賽今天登場，中華隊首戰澳洲，愛國球迷大舉出籠，運彩公會理事長何昱奇表示，這次賽事備受矚目，台灣球迷不僅在國內應援、更塞爆東京巨蛋；目前顯示台灣贏球賠率為1.40，澳洲獲勝為2.19，有高達8成投注中華隊贏球，粗估首場投注金額飆破1億元2000萬元，今天一早就有上班族7點就先衝來下注買中華隊贏球，才趕去上班。

▲台灣球迷飛往東京應援，螞蟻雄兵要為中華隊加油。（圖／何昱奇提供）

何昱奇提到，延續12強奪冠熱潮，這次不僅政府機關、餐廳直播球賽，連宮廟也加入直播行列。「重要賽事期間，許多愛國球迷就會現身投注，雖然每個人投注金額不大，但螞蟻雄兵出動、積少成多，加上理性的職業玩家也看好中華隊，讓投注金額突破過往首戰的6000、7000萬金額！」

何昱奇補充，中華隊也因有球迷熱情加持，雖然賠率從90倍下降到50倍，但從昨天開始，已經不少球迷下注中華隊贏球。

▲為了支持中華隊，何昱奇也拿出他自己珍藏的12強冠軍紀念酒。（圖／何昱奇提供）

為了支持中華隊，何昱奇也拿出他自己珍藏的12強冠軍紀念酒，「原本是我自己收藏的非賣品，今天決定拿出來與何大智運動彩券行會員分享，限量60瓶！」不過，何昱奇也提醒，球隊是否贏球與陣容完整有高度關聯，球迷應保持理性投注才好。

● 《》提醒您：喝酒不開車，開車不喝酒。

journalist: 游瓊華

countries: 澳洲 台灣

title: 上班族7點衝下注！中華隊首戰澳洲賠率1.4 投注金額估破1.2億 | ETtoday生活新聞


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▲劉嘉玲（左）與梁朝偉1月曾赴巴黎欣賞Dior大秀。（圖／翻攝carinalau1208 IG）

記者陳雅韻／台北報導

女星劉嘉玲曾表示以前不太喜歡小動物，但2024年突然大轉變，帶回兩隻拉布拉多狗，各取名為Batman與Benjamin，讓老公梁朝偉驚訝不已。近日她似乎又添了新歡，將一隻玩具貴賓狗裝進100,000元的Dior Book Tote附肩背帶迷你托特包中，以英文寫下「和媽媽的血拼日！我是史上最棒的購物助理」，超萌模樣讓網友都融化了。

▲劉嘉玲將愛犬放入10,000元的Dior Book Tote 附肩背帶小型托特包中。（圖／翻攝carinalau1208 IG）

▲劉嘉玲的小狗充當一日購物助理，模樣可愛極了。（圖／翻攝carinalau1208 IG）

劉嘉玲今年1月與梁朝偉赴巴黎參加Dior大秀，她入手新任設計師Jonathan Anderson以Choderlos de Laclos《危險關係》初版封面為設計圖案的粉紅Dior Book Tote附肩背帶迷你托特包，不僅外出使用實用方便，竟也成為寵物包，放進玩具貴賓狗剛剛好，狗寶貝乖巧的陪她逛街購物，模樣可愛極了。

▲劉嘉玲帶著兩隻拉布拉多狗外出健行。（圖／翻攝carinalau1208 IG）

過去劉嘉玲受訪時曾表示，梁朝偉喜歡狗但被她禁養，因此2024年將兩隻拉布拉多狗帶回家時，老公驚訝到反問她是否肯定想養，她透露現在的日子有狗兒相伴變得很熱鬧，她也經常帶著牠們外出運動，甘心當稱職的「媽咪」。

▲劉嘉玲將一黑一白拉布拉多取名為Batman與Benjamin。（圖／翻攝carinalau1208 IG）

journalist: 陳雅韻

title: 劉嘉玲10萬Dior包當寵物包 玩具貴賓狗變購物助理萌翻 | ET Fashion


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▲李強介紹「十五五」草案。（圖／記者陳冠宇攝）

記者蔡紹堅、陳冠宇／北京－台北報導

今年是中國大陸第十五個「五年規劃」（簡稱：十五五）的開局年，中國大陸國務院總理李強5日上午在十四屆全國人大四次會議上簡要介紹了「十五五」草案，強調2035年人均國內生產總值（人均GDP）要比2020年「翻一番」（增加一倍），達到中等發達國家水平。

李強提到，草案細化提出了20項主要指標：

「經濟發展」方面，圍繞增長、結構、效率提出3項指標。其中，綜合考慮國內外形勢和各方面因素，兼顧需要與可能，提出國內生產總值增長保持在合理區間，各年度視情提出，為到2035年人均國內生產總值比2020年翻一番、達到中等發達國家水平打好基礎。

「創新驅動」方面，圍繞創新投入及其成效提出3項指標。其中，充分考慮研發投入增長趨勢和企業投入能力，提出全社會研發經費投入年均增長7%以上，與「十四五」規劃目標保持一致，確保研發投入力度不減。

「民生福祉」方面，為更好解決人民群眾急難愁盼問題，針對性提出就業、收入、教育、醫療、健康、「一老一小」等7項指標。

「綠色低碳」方面，圍繞降碳減污、生態環保等提出5項指標。其中，根據國家自主貢獻目標，提出單位國內生產總值二氧化碳排放累計降低17%，繼續推動重點領域綠色低碳轉型。

「安全保障」方面，圍繞糧食、能源生產能力提出2項指標，著力夯實國家安全重要基礎保障。

李強指出，草案闡述了「十五五」發展的重大戰略任務，突出體現四個方面：

一是突出推動高質量發展。發展新質生產力是高質量發展的內在要求。

強調科技創新的引領作用，著眼鞏固壯大實體經濟根基，構建以先進製造業為骨幹的現代化產業體系。著眼高水平科技自立自強，加強原始創新和關鍵核心技術攻關，深入推進數字中國建設，數字經濟核心產業增加值佔國內生產總值比重達到12.5%。著眼建設美麗中國，持續深入推進污染防治攻堅和生態系統優化，加快形成綠色生產生活方式，確保碳達峰目標如期實現。

二是突出做強國內大循環。在外部環境複雜嚴峻的情況下，必須堅持擴大內需這個戰略基點。

著眼增強國內大循環內生動力和可靠性，堅持惠民生和促消費、投資於物和投資於人緊密結合，大力提振消費，促進居民消費率明顯提高，擴大有效投資。著眼充分釋放我國超大規模市場紅利，縱深推進全國統一大市場建設，破除地方保護和市場分割。著眼增強高質量發展動力，充分激發各類經營主體活力，加快完善要素市場化配置體制機制。著眼暢通國內國際雙循環，統籌用好全球要素和市場資源。

三是突出推進全體人民共同富裕。中國式現代化是全體人民共同富裕的現代化。

著眼建設生育友好型社會，健全人口服務體系；辦好人民滿意的教育，勞動年齡人口平均受教育年限提高到11.7年；加快建設健康中國和體育強國，人均預期壽命提高到80歲；積極應對人口老齡化，養老機構護理型床位佔比提高到73%；促進高質量充分就業，完善收入分配制度，健全社會保障體系。著眼縮小區域差距和城鄉差別，加快農業農村現代化，持續鞏固拓展脫貧攻堅成果，優化重大生產力布局，深入推進以人為本的新型城鎮化。著眼促進人民精神生活共同富裕，弘揚和踐行社會主義核心價值觀，大力繁榮文化事業，加快發展文化產業，提升中華文明傳播力影響力。

四是突出統籌發展和安全。安全是發展的前提，發展是安全的保障。

貫徹總體國家安全觀，著眼推進國家安全體系和能力現代化提出多項任務舉措。增強糧食、能源資源等供給保障能力，糧食綜合生產能力達到1.45萬億斤左右，能源綜合生產能力達到58億噸標準煤。統籌推進房地產、地方政府債務、地方中小金融機構等風險有序化解，提高公共安全治理水平，有效維護社會安全穩定。

李強提到，草案提出6方面109項重大工程：

「引領新質生產力發展」方面，圍繞產業基礎能力和競爭力提升、新產業新賽道培育發展、前沿科技攻關、創新基礎能力提升提出28項工程。「構建現代化基礎設施體系」方面，圍繞國家綜合立體交通網、新型能源體系、新型基礎設施、對外開放平台等提出23項工程。

「促進城鄉融合發展」方面，圍繞新型城鎮化建設、農業農村現代化建設提出9項工程。「保障和改善民生」方面，圍繞社會主義文化繁榮發展、高質量教育體系建設、健康中國建設、優化「一老一小」」服務、社會關愛服務提出25項工程。

「推動綠色低碳轉型」方面，圍繞碳達峰碳中和、環境質量提升、生態保護修復提出18項工程。「重點領域安全保障」方面，圍繞糧食、能源安全等提出6項工程。

李強強調，這些重大工程兼顧當前和長遠，既涉及「硬投資」也包含「軟建設」，將注重以政府投資帶動社會力量參與，更好發揮重大工程項目強基礎、補短板、增後勁等重要作用。

李強還說，「展望未來，我們充滿信心。在以習近平同志為核心的黨中央堅強領導下，全國上下團結奮鬥，一定能夠把『十五五』宏偉藍圖變成美好現實。」

taiwan-subdivisions: 中和 大內

title: 陸「十五五」開局年 李強：2035年人均GDP要比2020年「翻一番」 | ETtoday大陸新聞


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記者黃翊婷／綜合報導

民眾阿輝（化名）不滿醫院護理師詢問及建檔過於繁複，竟在申訴時大聲辱罵兩名護理師「機器人、豬腦袋」，甚至聲稱要照三餐找對方麻煩，結果反而害自己吃上官司。台北地院法官日前審理之後，依對於醫事人員以脅迫妨害其執行醫療業務罪，判處阿輝有期徒刑2個月，得易科罰金6萬元。

▲阿輝向醫院申訴的過程中，竟大聲以不雅言詞辱罵護理師。（示意圖／VCG，與本案當事人無關。）

判決書中記載，阿輝去年8月間在某醫院辦理入院，因不滿護理師建檔詢問的項目過於繁複，氣得提出申訴並要求行政總值人員來聽取內容，他在病房內大聲表示，「為何沒有教他們這些豬腦袋護理師可以拒絕回答問題」，甚至以「機器人、低X兒、白X」等不雅字眼辱罵護理師，最後還宣稱「等等還會出去罵他們，要照三餐找他們麻煩」。

兩名護理師當時就在病房門口，聽聞上述言詞之後，覺得心理上受到脅迫，於是透過衛生局函請台北地檢署偵辦此案。檢方認為阿輝涉犯刑法第309條第1項公然侮辱罪嫌、醫療法第106條第3項對醫事人員施脅迫而妨害其救護醫療業務執行罪嫌，訊後依法將他起訴。

台北地院法官表示，阿輝的行為確實觸法，依刑法第55條前段規定，從一重之對於醫事人員以脅迫妨害其執行醫療業務罪處斷，考量到他的生活狀況、智識程度、犯後態度等因素，最終依法判處他有期徒刑2個月，得易科罰金6萬元，全案仍可上訴。

journalist: 黃翊婷

title: 不爽護理師建檔問太多 申訴男一句「豬腦袋」被判刑2個月 | ETtoday社會新聞


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記者詹雅婷／綜合報導

伊朗媒體公開一段宣傳影片，畫面顯示，大批無人機整齊排列在隱密的地下設施中。伊朗在美國與以色列的聯合軍事行動中蒙受損失之際，持續使用部署無人機展開報復性打擊。

伊朗地下設施的「無人機大軍」

根據法斯社（Fars News Agency）釋出的畫面，此處地下空間燈火通明、掛著伊朗國旗，成排的無人機架設在火箭發射器與卡車上，其中一面牆上還掛著已故最高領袖哈米尼（Ali Khamenei）的肖像，象徵伊朗持續備戰。

▲▼伊朗媒體公開擺放在地下設施的無人機。（圖／翻攝自Telegram，下同）

畫面中據信是造價低廉的Shahed見證者自殺式無人機。根據彭博社先前分析，伊朗的小型無人機被視為巡弋飛彈的替代品，且頻繁使用這種無人機來攻擊美軍基地以及美軍在中東盟友的民用建築與石油基礎設施。

根據彭博經濟研究國防負責人瓦瑟（Becca Wasser）的說法，伊朗估計仍有約2000枚彈道飛彈，今年衝突爆發後已發射逾1200枚飛行物，其中大部分是廉價無人機。專家認為，伊朗可能刻意保留彈道飛彈，藉此應對更長期的打擊需要。

美軍基地遭襲 6官兵殉職

伊朗至今展開的報復性反擊鎖定美國位於科威特、阿拉伯聯合大公國、卡達與巴林等國的軍事基地，其中科威特舒艾拜港（Port Shuaiba）攻擊事件造成6名美國官兵死亡。

美軍已證實駐紮在科威特的基地遭到伊朗無人機襲擊，有6人殉職。根據名單，死者為佛州35歲上尉克霍克（Cody Khork）、內布拉斯加州42歲士官長提金斯（Noah Tietjens）、明尼蘇達州39歲士官長阿莫爾（Nicole Amor），愛荷華州20歲中士科迪（Declan Coady）、愛荷華州45歲少校歐布萊恩（Jeffrey O’Brien）以及加州54歲三級準尉馬贊（Robert Marzan）。

journalist: 詹雅婷

countries: 伊朗 卡達 美國 以色列 科威特 巴林

title: 伊朗公開「無人機大軍」 地下設施內部畫面曝光 | ETtoday國際新聞


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▲十四屆全國人大會議開幕。（圖／記者陳冠宇攝）

記者蔡紹堅、陳冠宇／北京－台北報導

中國大陸第十四屆全國人大四次會議5日上午召開，據大陸國務院提出的「政府工作報告」，今年的財政預算赤字率擬按4%左右安排。去年，大陸赤字率按4%左右安排，高於前一年的3%，也是30多年來最高的水平。

根據報告，大陸今年將繼續實施更加積極的財政政策，赤字率擬按4%左右安排，赤字規模5.89兆元，比上年增加2300億元。一般公共預算支出規模將首次達到30兆元，比上年增加約1.27兆元。

報告提到，擬發行超長期特別國債1.3兆元，持續支持「兩重」建設、「兩新」工作等。擬發行特別國債3000億元，支持國有大型商業銀行補充資本。擬安排地方政府專項債券4.4兆元，完善專項債券項目負面清單管理和自審自發試點，重點支持建設重大項目、置換隱性債務、消化政府拖欠賬款等。

▼大陸國務院總理李強。

報告指出，今年財政支出繼續保持相當規模，要持續用力優化支出結構，更加註重支持提振消費、投資於人、保障民生等方面，提高財政資金使用效益。中央財政增加對地方財力性轉移支付規模，開展整合統籌使用轉移支付資金試點，增強地方自主財力和統籌能力。

報告提到，今年將壓實分級保障主體責任，兜牢基層「三保」底線。各級政府要更好「當家理財」，建立健全增收節支機制，積極盤活利用存量資源資產，嚴肅財經紀律，強化預算約束，嚴控一般性支出，堅決落實過緊日子的要求，務必把省下來的每一分錢都用到發展的關鍵點、群眾的急需處。

報告指出，今年繼續實施適度寬鬆的貨幣政策。把促進經濟穩定增長、物價合理回升作為貨幣政策的重要考量，靈活高效運用降準降息等多種政策工具，保持流動性充裕，使社會融資規模、貨幣供應量增長同經濟增長、價格總水平預期目標相匹配。

報告提到，今年將優化創新結構性貨幣政策工具，適當增加規模，完善實施方式。暢通貨幣政策傳導機制，充分發揮數據要素、知識產權等無形資產作用，強化考核評估、融資擔保、風險補償等支持措施，引導金融機構加力支持擴大內需、科技創新、中小微企業等重點領域。

▼大陸國家主席習近平。

報告指出，今年將規範信貸市場經營行為，降低融資中間費用，促進社會綜合融資成本低位運行。保持人民幣匯率在合理均衡水平上的基本穩定。強化改革舉措與宏觀政策協同。推動高質量發展，既要政策給力，也要改革發力。

報告提到，今年要用改革的辦法打通經濟循環的卡點堵點，將政策效果轉化為經濟內生增長動能。增強宏觀政策取向一致性和有效性，將各類經濟政策和非經濟政策、存量政策和增量政策納入宏觀政策取向一致性評估，使各類政策措施同向發力，形成合力。

報告也強調，加強財政、金融、就業、產業等政策協同，深入挖掘政策結合點，創新實施工具，持續放大「組合拳」效應。健全預期管理機制，提振社會信心。

title: 陸今年維持4%左右高赤字率 實施更積極財政政策 | ETtoday大陸新聞


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▲台籍操盤手王昱棠月薪高達1萬元美金(約新台幣31萬6740元)。（圖／記者劉昌松攝）

記者劉昌松、黃哲民、莊智勝／台北報導

台北地檢署偵結柬埔寨太子集團在台設點洗錢案，4日起訴62人，其中在押的9名主嫌全數獲交保；檢方調查，太子集團台籍幹部薪資驚人，台籍操盤手王昱棠不認犯罪，還自稱是領固定薪資的上班族，自曝月薪1萬美金(約新台幣31萬6740元)；太子集團在台最高負責人李添的特助李守禮僅負責協助安排晚上娛樂活動，月薪竟高達19萬元，李更語出驚人地表示，「到職以來從沒進過辦公室」。

台北地院召開9名主嫌接押庭，台籍操盤手王昱棠、天旭國際人資主管辜淑雯等人都否認犯罪；王昱棠更當庭強調自己絕非太子集團台灣地區負責人，僅是領「固定薪資的上班族」，表示願提出150萬元求交保。法官訊問後得知王男月領集團「1萬美金」薪水，當場反問「150萬交保金是『美金』嗎？」

王昱棠想解釋為何只能出150萬元，聲稱從太子集團離職、高價把自己公司從集團買回來，任職期間薪水等於都還給集團，但法官要他回答交保金額「說的是美金還是台幣」，王男說「台幣」，之後狀似賭氣表示「沒什麼要說了」，律師難掩不滿地笑著接話指王男在押沒錢，是姊姊願借150萬元交保應急。

▲李守禮月薪19萬，僅負責協助安排晚上娛樂活動，2019年10月到職後從未進過辦公室。（圖／記者劉昌松攝）

此外，原本在酒店擔任幹部的李守禮則表示，因為過去曾幫李添安排過活動，獲得李添賞識，被叫去太子集團天旭國際上班，但他2019年10月到職後，從來沒有進過辦公室，都是由李添透過電話指示工作，主要負責集團中國籍高層要來台灣時，協助安排晚上的娛樂，月薪高達19萬元。

而海外不動產房仲出身的林揚茂，透過104網站找到太子集團工作，最後當上尼爾公司、VAST公司負責人，林楊茂堅稱自己只是月薪12萬元的「打工仔」，僅負責在柬埔寨接待不動產投資者，未經手財務，但檢察官認為他涉嫌偽造貸款、租賃契約，掩護集團在海內外的洗錢活動，並在事件爆發後，指示同事清空日本太子公司的帳戶款項，轉匯到尼爾公司，是OBU（國際金融業務分行）帳戶大總管，涉案情節重大。

台北地院法官在審理後，9人全數獲交保，操盤手王昱棠500萬元、天旭公司人資長辜淑雯交保400萬元，太子集團在台最高負責人李添的特助李守禮、尼爾創新公司負責人林揚茂與尼爾創新公司財務副總鄭巧枚各150萬元交保，天旭公司會計主管陳麗珊交保100萬元，為李添管理超跑的邱子恩、洗錢「水房」要角陳韋志各交保50萬元，管理遊艇的玄古管理顧問公司負責人王俊國交保30萬元。其中僅鄭巧枚因親友來不及在時限內籌足150萬元保金，凌晨遭押返台北看守所，其餘8人均完成交保手續離開。

▼林揚茂月薪高達12萬元，堅稱自己只是「打工仔」。（圖／記者劉昌松攝）

journalist: 劉昌松、黃哲民、莊智勝

countries: 柬埔寨 台灣 日本 中國

title: 太子集團驚人薪資曝光！操盤手月領31萬 負責人喊「只是打工仔」 | ETtoday社會新聞


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▲勞動部雲嘉南分署推動「產業人才投資方案」，提供在職勞工3年最高10萬元訓練補助。（記者林東良翻攝，下同）

記者林東良／台南報導

勞動部勞動力發展署雲嘉南分署推動「產業人才投資方案」，鼓勵在職勞工利用下班時間進修培養第二專長，每人3年內最高可獲10萬元訓練補助。今年上半年預計開辦約560門多元課程，涵蓋新興科技、綠色能源、AI應用及職能精進等領域，協助勞工掌握產業趨勢、拓展職涯發展。

住在台南的陳柏霖就是透過該方案成功轉換跑道的案例。陳柏霖專科主修資訊相關科系，曾服軍職6年，退役後進修日文並進入模具製造產業擔任工程師。然而因家人生病長期受四肢水腫困擾，他開始自學按摩技巧協助舒緩不適，也逐漸對健康促進與運動專業產生濃厚興趣。

在朋友分享下，陳柏霖得知勞動部產業人才投資方案可提供在職進修補助，便利用下班時間參加由台南市運動場所服務職業工會辦理的健身運動與健康保養相關課程，自111年起展開系統化學習。

在專業師資指導與實務訓練下，他逐步建立運動保健與身體調整的專業基礎，並於113年取得體適能健身C級指導員證及民俗調理業傳統整復推拿證照，成功培養第二專長。他表示，持續進修不僅提升專業能力，也讓生活更有目標與成就感。

基於對整復推拿領域的熱忱與服務社會的理念，陳柏霖於去年4月辭去原本的工程師工作，正式轉行投入整復推拿服務。轉行初期雖然面臨收入不穩定與家人疑慮，但憑藉專業能力與持續精進，半年內逐步建立穩定客源，目前在台南「誠翊傳統整復推拿」服務已近一年。陳柏霖表示，能以專業技術幫助個案改善身體不適，看到服務對象逐漸恢復健康與生活品質，是他持續投入這個行業的重要動力。他也鼓勵民眾善用政府提供的進修資源，「培養第二專長，運用專業技能助人，永遠不嫌晚」。

雲嘉南分署長劉邦棟表示，「產業人才投資方案」以協助勞工掌握產業趨勢及提升專業能力為核心，每位參訓學員3年內最高可獲10萬元訓練費補助，一般民眾最高可補助訓練費用八成；若為中高齡者或身心障礙者等特定對象，更可享全額補助，有效降低在職進修門檻。

劉邦棟指出，今年上半年雲嘉南分署預計開辦約560門課程，內容涵蓋新興科技、職能精進、綠色能源及跨域應用等多元主題，包括「淨零綠領人才培育課程班」、「新媒體短影音創作與AI智慧剪輯應用班」、「剪染造型及社群行銷班」、「苧麻與鳳梨纖維家飾設計應用班」及「咖啡烘焙與拉花職人班」等，希望鼓勵更多在職勞工利用政府資源提升專業能力，為職涯開創更多可能。

雲嘉南分署表示，相關課程資訊可至台灣就業通網站查詢與報名，或撥打專線（06）6985945轉分機1526洽詢。

journalist: 林東良

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 新興

title: 最高補助10萬元！ 勞動部南分署推560門課程助勞工跨域翻轉職涯 | ETtoday地方新聞


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▲立法院長韓國瑜。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

記者杜冠霖／台北報導

一向被視為政黨色彩較親藍營的工商協進會昨（4日）晚舉行春酒餐會，也邀請包含立法院長韓國瑜、日本工商會理事長相馬伸一郎在內等多位政要到場，現場也出現意外插曲，在韓國瑜致詞完後，工商協進會理事長吳東亮突然拿起麥克風表示，要特別拜託韓國瑜兩件事，中央政府總預算趕快通過、台美貿易協定盡速通過。對此，韓則是尷尬回一句，「大家喝酒，不要談公事」。

產業界相當關注總預算案、台美ART協定。中華民國全國工業總會3日主辦「115年工商團體春節聯誼」，當時，全國工業總會理事長潘俊榮致詞時表示，肯定總統展現高度政治智慧，在開工首日就與五院院長新春茶敘時，並運用韓國瑜院長提出的「化」字，化解政黨間的對立。

潘也透露，他在開工第二日就率領工總，拜會立法院長韓國瑜及30幾位國民黨團立委，請託儘速審理總預算案與台美ART協定，期盼新的一年可以看到朝野政黨和諧，這是人民產業的開懷，更是台灣整體的福氣。

無獨有偶，昨晚工商協進會春酒餐會，也邀請包含立法院長韓國瑜、日本工商會理事長相馬伸一郎、海基會董事長蘇嘉全、新加坡駐台北商務辦事處主任唐霈穎等人到場。

而在韓國瑜上台致詞後，吳東亮突然拿起麥克風再次向韓國瑜請託，吳表示，中央政府總預算趕快通過、台美貿易協定盡速通過。對此，韓則是尷尬回一句，「大家喝酒，不要談公事」。

journalist: 杜冠霖

countries: 中華民國 新加坡 日本 台灣

people: 韓國瑜 蘇嘉全

title: 工商大老當面請託總預算、貿易協定 韓國瑜尬：大家喝酒別談公事 | ETtoday政治新聞


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▲台北市長蔣萬安。（圖／記者林敬旻攝）

記者鄭佩玟／台北報導

立法院國民黨團今（5日）將討論確定黨版軍購特別條例草案，但目前藍營內部說法仍未統一，黨內青壯派多數支持藍委徐巧芯提出的8100億元版本，前主席朱立倫子弟兵、桃園市議員凌濤頻頻提議應以「9000億作為目標」，國民黨中央稍早召開記者會堅持「3500億元+N」的版本。台北市長蔣萬安被問及支持黨內哪一個版本？蔣僅表示，「厚植國防實力是必要的，且會全力支持，同時也支持必要的合理軍購。」要尊重黨團的意見。

蔣萬安今日上午出席南山信義A26新建工程上梁時表示，知道今天國民黨立法院黨團要召開黨團大會，所以希望、也相信黨團會有充分的討論、坦誠的交換意見，做出決策。

媒體追問哪一個版本數額比較符合自身看法？支持哪一個？蔣萬安則強調，要尊重黨團的意見，也希望黨團內部大家今天黨團大會一定會有好的討論、充分的交換意見，坦誠表達各界的意見。

journalist: 鄭佩玟

people: 蔣萬安 鄭麗文 徐巧芯 朱立倫

taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 信義

title: 國民黨軍購金額鄭麗文、藍委版本內訌 蔣萬安：要尊重黨團意見 | ETtoday政治新聞


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▲日出茶太應援中華隊連4天發放免費珍奶。（圖／日出茶太提供）

記者蕭筠／台北報導

2026世界棒球經典賽（WBC）今天開打，手搖飲「日出茶太」祭出應援中華隊優惠，即日起至8日連4天限時發放「免費珍奶」，每店每日限量100杯。五桐號也推「2杯99元」力挺台灣。

日出茶太應援中華隊，民眾只要於業者官方臉書、IG、Threads指定活動貼文按讚並留言「中華隊加油！」，門市消費出示完成畫面，可免費兌換太極3號1杯，固定甜度冰量，採號碼牌發放，每店每日限量100杯，每人每日限領1杯，不得代領或轉讓。

5日、7日、8日上午11時發放，6日為下午5時發放；淡水門市5日、7日、8日為中午12時發放，6日下午5時發放。

台中烏內中友店贈送品項則改為「青．烏龍+麝香葡萄Q角」、「焙．烏龍+麝香葡萄Q角」，固定甜度冰量。

▲五桐號也有應援中華隊優惠。（圖／翻攝五桐號臉書粉專）

五桐號也有挺台灣應援優惠，門市消費任選桂花梨青、玄米蕎麥奶茶、粉粿青檸冬瓜、紅柚青茶凍飲、鐵觀音焙奶茶及焙茶珍珠可可，2杯99元，即日起至8日限時開跑，每筆訂單限購3組，優惠不得疊用，各門市售完為止。

journalist: 蕭筠

taiwan-subdivisions: 淡水 觀音

title: 日出茶太今起「發免費珍奶」挺中華隊 五桐號推2杯99元應援優惠 | ETtoday旅遊雲


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記者黃翊婷／台北報導

男子阿興（化名）前年11月間在台北市某金融機構，對著ATM機台的出鈔口排放尿液，導致機台短路無法使用，造成銀行財產損失3萬元，因而挨告。台北地院法官日前審理此案，考量到這並非阿興首次犯案，最終依犯毀損他人物品罪，判處他有期徒刑3個月，得易科罰金9萬元。

▲阿興對著ATM尿尿，造成機台短路毀損。（示意圖／記者周宸亘攝，與本案無關。）

判決書中記載，阿興2024年11月17日凌晨3時許前往台北市某金融機構，對著ATM出鈔口排放尿液，導致液體滲入機台發生短路，無法使用；後來銀行人員發現異狀，立刻報警處理。

阿興到案之後，對於上述犯行均坦承不諱。台北地院法官表示，經查，這並非阿輝第一次犯案，2024年7月至11月間他曾使用相同方式，在其他銀行對著ATM尿尿，因而被法院判刑，沒想到同年間又再犯，難認有悔悟之心。

法官指出，阿興的行為導致銀行財產損失3萬元，考量到他犯後終能坦承犯行，但未與銀行業者達成和解或調解，態度普通，過去還有竊盜、詐欺、侵占等多項前科，素行不佳，最終依犯毀損他人物品罪，判處他有期徒刑3個月，得易科罰金9萬元，全案仍可上訴。

title: 專挑ATM出鈔口尿尿 台北男被判刑3個月 | ETtoday社會新聞


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▲台塩海洋鹼性離子水推出「質感．好水 月月抽 iPhone」活動，總獎項價值突破千萬元。（記者林東良翻攝，下同）

記者林東良／台南報導

台灣瓶裝水領航品牌「台塩海洋鹼性離子水」宣布推出年度大型回饋活動「質感．好水 月月抽 iPhone」正式起跑，台鹽董事長丁彥哲表示，面對競爭激烈的瓶裝水市場，台鹽選擇不打價格戰，而是透過實質回饋感謝消費者支持，今年更首度結合「遊戲化機制」與品牌美學，讓消費者在日常補水之餘，也能享受互動樂趣，整體獎項總價值突破千萬元。

台鹽指出，此次活動主打「買一瓶水享三重中獎機會」的高CP值玩法，即日起至9月30日止，凡購買任一瓶台塩海洋鹼性離子水並憑發票登錄活動網站，即可同步參加「即時轉盤」、「積分爭霸戰」以及最受矚目的iPhone 17「月月抽」活動。

其中「即時轉盤」主打即登錄、即抽獎，民眾完成發票登錄後即可轉動轉盤，獎品包含台塩海洋鹼性離子水850ml一箱等好禮；而「積分爭霸戰」則導入動態排名機制，讓喝水也充滿遊戲感，每張發票可累積1點，若購買整箱產品輸入序號更可一次增加10點，鼓勵支持者挑戰全台積分排行榜。

台鹽表示，活動將提供豐富回饋，積分排名前20名可獲贈5箱台塩海洋鹼性離子水，全台積分冠軍更可加碼抱走5000元現金，讓消費者買得越多、累積越多，也能獲得更實在的回饋。

最受關注的「月月抽」活動則推出夢幻頭獎iPhone 17（256GB），並搭配萬元現金、台塩海洋鹼性離子水10箱、illy咖啡禮盒等多樣質感好禮。對於箱購族群，臺鹽也特別設計「幸運捷徑」，每箱附贈「刮刮卡＋序號」二合一卡，除可額外獲得30次抽獎機會外，還有機會即刮即中「好水再來一箱」或500元台塩線上購購物金，大幅提升中獎機率。

台鹽公司指出，台塩海洋鹼性離子水上市已超過20年，憑藉獨特製程與熟水口感，長年穩居市場熱銷品牌之一，也成為許多消費者心中的好水首選。臺鹽始終堅持以品質為核心價值，此次規劃長達7個月的抽獎活動，正是希望以優質產品與豐富回饋，吸引更多重視生活品質的消費者。

近年台鹽也持續拓展品牌生活美學版圖，從與台灣高鐵、圓山大飯店合作聯名，到推出藝術家限量設計瓶，逐步將產品力轉化為品牌力。延續這股美學基因，本次活動同步推出850ml專屬設計瓶標，以簡潔洗鍊的視覺語彙搭配流暢水波紋設計，傳遞純淨且現代感的飲水美學，讓喝水也能成為日常生活中的一種品味儀式。

台鹽表示，誠摯邀請全台消費者一起喝好水、抽好禮，共同響應質感飲水生活。更多活動資訊可至活動官網查詢，或撥打客服專線0800-230990洽詢。

taiwan-subdivisions: 三重 水上

title: 買1瓶抽iPhone 17！ 台塩海洋鹼性離子水推「質感．好水」活動 | ETtoday地方新聞


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撰文攝影／民宿女王芽月、整理／實習記者陳品勻

桃園中壢火車站的美食很多，每一種爆款美食都有它的特色，這次我們要跟大家推薦在中壢火車站前站的「追蕾醬香黑鴨」，是今年在全台灣迅速竄起的小吃，他們家雖然是現煮現滷的滷味攤，可是沒有太多湯汁，放冷了也很好吃，連吃他們的小菜系列都停不下來啊！

►更多吃喝玩樂大小事，快追隨旅遊雲官方Instagram

位置這家店的位置我覺得很好找，就在中壢火車站前站的位置，靠近以前圓環，劉家大潤餅旁邊幾家店面的位置，從火車站前站走出來，往左邊走，轉個彎就可以看到。

路邊的紅色小攤從這張照片就可以看出來，店家大概位置了吧！後面就是中壢火車新的前站出入口，紅色的小攤子，其實在一整排的店家裡面，算是蠻顯眼的。

▲食材都是每天由自家的中央廚房出貨，堅持每天現滷，冷鏈出貨，所以大家吃到的醬香黑鴨那個口味都很新鮮好吃！

獨門中藥滷汁加了獨家配好的中藥藥材下去滷好的食材真的是超香的，那個焦糖般的晶瑩透徹的色澤，真的讓我不自覺流了一些口水出來。

▲醬汁裡面讓人最欲罷不能的香辣味，就是這個燈籠椒＋花椒，又香又麻，讓一些熱愛辣味的人，會想要一吃再吃。

乾式滷味如果你吃這種滷得相當夠味的乾滷味，那麼你最愛吃那一個部分？店家最熱門的選項是脆腸，但我個人最愛的是鴨脖子，那個重點就不是肉了，而是慢慢吸吮著裡面的醬香，啃食著骨髓裡面的碎肉，再配點啤酒，舒暢！

品項分類仔細我覺得很細心的部分就是，店家會把不同食材仔細分好，這樣大家挑選時不用花太多時間，可以馬上夾到自己想吃的食材，那個鴨翅也蠻大隻的！

▲除了鴨脖子、鴨頭這種常見的滷味之外，他們甚至還有牛肚跟豬腱肉，這個豬腱肉看起來好好吃！

▲價位給大家參考一下，其實倒也不貴，那個鴨頭、鴨翅站在前面就可以聞到香味！

小菜除了滷味之外，他們家的小菜也好好吃，四樣小菜是100元，小菜會不定期更新變換。杏鮑菇非常好吃，吃過一次後就念念不忘。

▲選好自己想吃的食材，店長會仔細幫客人切段切好，讓大家在拿取時可以更方便。

靈魂醬汁如果你有點小菜的話，那麼這個靈魂醬汁你一定要嘗嘗，不會辣，可是非常的溫醇，鹹、香、甘都有，配上小菜，連不敢吃辣的小朋友都欲罷不能。

四川辣醬如果你愛吃辣的話，除了原本的鴨頭等肉品之外是做成香辣口味之外，別忘了，這邊還有非常道地的四川辣醬，這可是老闆特地去四川學回來的沾醬，這個愛吃辣的朋友一定會愛上，香、麻、甘、辣四種滋味都在這一勺了，淋下去包管你辣到直喊爽。

▲這個辣蓮藕也是個蠻特別的小菜，已經有先滷過了，脆脆的蓮藕，香辣的滋味，相信你們也會喜歡。

▲這裡的米血好好吃！超級軟嫩，再淋上靈魂醬汁，馬上吃光。

▲這個鴨頭滷得多漂亮啊！油亮油亮的，看起來就是個好吃的樣子。

心得鴨翅真的好吃，不要小看那個鴨肉，滷得非常夠味，但不死鹹，而且我晚上帶回家啃的時候，那個鴨肉不會乾硬，還是挺有水的，難怪開攤沒多久，就有不少人聞香而來，買氣相當好！如果你也喜歡吃這個道地的四川香辣滷味，那麼「追蕾醬香黑鴨」你一定要試看看！

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▲台南仁德區德崙路發生化學品桶掉落小量洩漏事故，消防人員到場警戒並使用吸附棉圍堵化學物質，防止外洩擴散。（圖／記者林東良翻攝）

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台南市仁德區5日上午發生一起化學物質洩漏事件，一輛聯結車行經德崙路時，不慎掉落1桶20公升化學品並出現洩漏，消防局獲報後立即派員到場警戒與處置，利用吸附棉圍堵並完成止漏，現場未造成人員傷亡，事故於上午9時許解除警戒，後續交由相關單位處理。

台南市消防局表示，消防人員於上午7時39分接獲通報，指仁德區德崙路1507號附近有化學品掉落外洩情形，立即派遣消防車輛4輛、消防人員12人到場處置。消防人車於上午7時49分抵達現場回報，發現一桶20公升化學品掉落路面並有洩漏情形，隨即設置警戒區域進行處置。

消防人員隨後在上午8時3分使用吸附棉進行圍堵作業，防止化學物質擴散，並於8時22分完成止漏。至上午9時03分，現場已完成初步清洗與除汙作業，洩漏桶也已以吊掛方式處理完畢，現場狀況解除。後續除汙及相關善後作業則交由環保局與廠方人員接手處理。

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40家診所跨區驗證 糖尿病風險評估與智能衛教成果發表

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酒界龍頭指標性連鎖通路『酒條通洋酒』。(圖/品牌提供)

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酒條通3月週年慶寵粉升級滿額贈，攜手頂級冰淇淋品牌「Häagen-Dazs 哈根達斯」主打「讓微醺更甜美」。(圖/品牌提供)

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以協同整合模式推動細胞與基因治療實現可規模化實現

新加坡2026年3月5日 /美通社/ — 泰爾茂BCT今日宣布發布全新亞太區細胞與基因治療（CGT）生態系統藍圖。該藍圖旨在透過務實協作，協助亞太區細胞與基因治療開發者從早期研發走向可規模化、可複製的臨床與商業化交付。

當下，亞太地區CGT高速發展，但許多計畫仍面臨著從科研成果轉化為穩定、可規模化營運的現實挑戰，包括流程分散、營運成本高、GMP專業人才短缺，以及不同市場之間監管與生產能力差異等問題。

該CGT生態系統藍圖並非聚焦於單一技術或孤立流程環節，而是清晰勾勒出從細胞採集、處理到臨床生產準備的全過程中，如何將各方的關鍵能力、核心流程及合作夥伴形成有效整合，從而簡化複雜流程，協助CGT開發與生產更具成本效益、更易規模化。

目前，泰爾茂BCT將聯合區域合作夥伴與CGT開發者，在多個實際應用場景中實踐該藍圖，包括：

與日本CiRA基金會合作：開發標準化的誘導性多能幹細胞（iPSC）工作流程與中國深研生物（Eureka Bio）及金斯瑞生物（GenScript）合作：提供上游細胞篩選與活化技術與整合一體化的端到端CAR-T生產製程聯合韓國KBIOHealth與新加坡先進細胞治療與研究中心ACTRIS：加強區域GMP培訓與能力建置

此外，泰爾茂BCT還與包括Precision Bio及台寶生醫（Taiwan Bio）在內的臨床階段CGT開發者合作，體現了在真實臨床生產約束條件下的執行決策。這些合作夥伴圍繞CAR-T與調節性T細胞（Treg）治療，運用整合化工作流程應對現有執行模式的局限，在實際營運條件下驗證臨床準備就緒度、流程穩健性與規模化可行性。

這些跨技術與跨夥伴的協同實踐表明，透過生態整合可顯著降低營運複雜度與成本，並為亞太多元化營運模式下的臨床與生產就緒建立清晰路徑。

「亞太區CGT生態正日趨成熟，創新者在推動本地突破的同時，也積極布局全球發展。」泰爾茂BCT亞太區商業與全球策略合作總監Wenyan Leong博士表示，「泰爾茂BCT透過導入全球領先市場所採用的自動化與標準化方案，協助區域開發者建構面向未來的營運體系。我們的合作夥伴深知，要實現商業化與臨床交付，必須從依賴人工、流程分散的模式，轉向更整合、更高品質的生產體系。我們的生態系統藍圖正是這一轉型的營運基礎，透過預先驗證的路徑與合作網絡，以務實且可規模化的方式推動區域創新邁向全球商業現實。」

泰爾茂BCT的CGT生態系統藍圖圍繞三大核心支柱建構：

適配性工作流程：可根據不同CGT治療模式與研發階段靈活調整整合能力與產能體系：能簡化GMP符合性流程、降低變異性與規模化成本協同執行模式：促進開發者、技術提供方與區域夥伴圍繞共同「就緒目標」形成一致行動

泰爾茂BCT亞太區副總裁李蕾表示：「我們的重點不是提供『一體適用』的解決方案，而是賦能CGT開發者在其具體營運環境中建構真正可行的體系。透過更清晰地呈現生態系統設計邏輯，我們希望支持更可預測的規模化路徑，並最終讓更多患者能夠獲得先進治療。」

隨著CGT計畫在亞太地區持續擴展，泰爾茂BCT正將其CGT生態系統藍圖打造為行業參考框架，協助相關企業與機構超越分散路徑，邁向更加協同與可規模化的CGT交付新階段。

關於泰爾茂BCT

作為全球領先的醫療技術企業，泰爾茂BCT專注於提供與血液和細胞採集、製備相關的產品、軟體與服務，致力於解決各種複雜且具挑戰性的疑難病症。我們的團隊堅信，血液與細胞擁有巨大的潛力，能為患者帶來顯著的健康益處。這份信念持續推動我們的創新，也不斷深化我們與客戶之間的合作。

目前，泰爾茂BCT的客戶遍及全球160多個國家，涵蓋血液中心、醫院、生技公司與科研機構。泰爾茂BCT擁有750餘項已授權專利，另有150餘項專利正在申請中。

泰爾茂BCT總部位於美國科羅拉多州萊克伍德市，並在全球設有四個區域總部、八個生產基地以及七個創新與研發中心。

泰爾茂BCT為全球醫療技術領導者泰爾茂集團（東京證券交易所：4543）之子公司。如欲瞭解公司更多詳情，敬請訪問TERUMOBCT.COM。

countries: 韓國 新加坡 美國 中國 日本

title: 泰爾茂BCT發布亞太區CGT生態系統藍圖


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（台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）為深化幼兒對傳統節慶文化的感受，台北市立內湖幼兒園於元宵節期間規劃系列活動，以幼兒為學習主體，透過故事引導、文化體驗與團體互動，孩子在生活經驗中感受文化意涵，並展現教師課程設計與文化轉譯的專業能力。

《從故事出發：元宵姑娘延伸活動》初始，各班教師依幼兒年齡與學習需求，規劃適宜內容的「元宵姑娘」故事與延伸活動，引導孩子認識元宵節由來與傳統習俗，瞭解燈籠、元宵、祈福等節慶元素。讓傳統文化不再只是知識傳遞，而是成為孩子能理解、能參與的生活經驗。 《故事轉化儀式：提燈走平安橋，全園團聚迎祝福》隔日串聯故事設計具象且富象徵意義的體驗活動，孩子們親手提著自製燈籠，走過象徵「祈福平安、去除晦氣」的平安橋，感受祝福與關懷的文化意涵。隨後，全園幼兒齊聚進行團圓活動，透過互動道好，感受節慶中「團聚」與「關係連結」的重要價值，也增進幼兒間情感聯結與歸屬感建立。 《走進在地文化：內湖夜弄土地公的遊戲化體驗》活動再進一步延伸至在地文化的探索，即內湖傳統的「夜弄土地公」元宵節活動，引導幼兒瞭解社區中代代相傳的節慶文化。夜弄土地公象徵感恩土地守護、祈求平安豐收與凝聚社區情感，是內湖重要且具代表性的在地文化。教師將其文化精神轉化為幼兒可理解、可參與的遊戲化課程，透過自製神轎，讓幼兒實際體驗抬神轎的動作，感受彼此合作、齊心完成任務的過程；同時以布球取代鞭炮，進行安全、有趣的「愈丟愈旺」活動，讓孩子在歡樂與操作中理解祝賀、熱鬧與祈福的文化意涵。 台北市立內湖幼兒園透過「祈福平安慶元宵」系列活動的課程設計，將元宵節中「迎光明、求平安、重團圓」的文化意涵，轉化為幼兒可實際參與和感受的學習歷程，而夜弄土地公文化的導入，不僅引導幼兒認識元宵節的傳統樣貌，更進一步理解文化與生活、社區之間的連結，培養對在地文化的認同和尊重。教師以課綱精神為核心，整合文化、遊戲與生活經驗，讓傳統節慶不僅被「看見」，更被孩子真正「走過、玩過與記住」，展現幼兒園深耕文化教育與專業課程實踐的教育價值。

title: 祈福平安慶元宵，內湖在地文化夜弄土地公


taiwan-subdivisions: 南港 花蓮 新埔 新興 苗栗 內湖 通霄 新北市 三民

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（台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）台北市立南港高工於台北市113學年度中等學校服務學習—社會實踐評選中，榮獲高中高職組團體金等獎、個人銅等獎。本次獲獎展現學校長期深耕服務學習、結合技術專業與社會關懷的成果，在台北市政府教育局指導下，由蕭為康校長領軍「技藝由心－愛在服務」團隊師生共同努力，將技職教育的科技特色轉化為具體社會實踐行動。

南港高工以技術型高中課程為核心，發展「技藝由心－愛在服務」計畫，融合對社會、人類與地球環境的關懷，積極回應在地社區與遠鄉部落需求。校內FRC Team 7645（NK MTC）規劃「服務課程」與「學習活動」兩大主軸，落實學以致用精神。

在服務課程中，團隊師生深入偏鄉，運用專業知識解決在地問題。例如於苗栗通霄新埔國小建置「小小氣象台」，協助發展氣象觀測教育；並於花蓮五味屋設計「導航與導覽APP」，提升在地文化與場域導覽效能，展現科技結合社會需求的創新實踐。

在學習活動方面，團隊將新興科技帶入社區與國小校園，透過「小小工程師活動」及「物聯網實務」營隊，培養學生科技素養，激發工程興趣，讓科技教育向下扎根。今年更攜手台北市立內湖高中雙語國際班及新北市立三民高中FRC Team 9501合作辦理服務學習，拓展跨校合作與多元視野。

此外，在本次「社會實踐服務學習個人獎項」評選中，南港高工土木科學生韓加恩榮獲銅等獎，展現技職教育結合社會實踐的具體成果。韓加恩同學將選手培訓所習得的漆作裝潢專業技能，實際運用於校內外空間修繕與美化服務，從校園出發，延伸至社區，以專業技術回饋環境、服務人群。除投入修繕工作外，他亦主動分享所學，帶領師生認識漆作工藝之美與設計裝潢的細膩價值，讓技術從競賽場域走入日常生活，成為藝術與服務的結合，這份善工不僅改善環境，更透過雙手與創意傳遞溫度與感動，展現青年學子以技能實踐社會責任的行動力。

南港高工表示，團隊秉持「資源取之於社會，也要用之於社會」理念，透過行前訓練、資金募集、服務實踐與反思回饋四階段課程，引導學生深化省思、培養感恩與付出精神，未來將持續深化與社區及偏鄉合作，培養兼具專業能力與社會責任感的青年，讓技職教育的力量持續回饋社會。

title: 技藝由心、愛在服務，南港高工榮獲服務學習團體金等獎、個人銅等獎!


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新聞首頁 > 綜合新聞 > 台北市 114 學年度中等學校運動會學生展現成果，多項競賽改寫大會紀錄，全力備戰115年全中運 （台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）台北市政府教育局（下稱教育局）為選拔游泳及田徑優秀選手代表台北市參加全國中等學校運動會，歷年舉辦台北市中等學校運動會，本年度游泳賽事於115年1月5日完賽，田徑競賽則於2月27日圓滿落幕。本次田徑項目由公私立中等學校及外僑學校共62所學校、800名選手及204名隊職員共襄盛舉，各校捷報頻傳、大放異彩，總計18項、41人次破大會紀錄，展現本市選手勇於挑戰、超越自我的運動家精神！

在高中男子組的激戰中，多位選手展現出超越同儕的絕對實力，市立中正高中王誠宇成為長距離賽道的代名詞，他先在3000公尺以08:27.37破大會紀錄奪冠，隨後又在5000公尺跑出15:02.30的好成績，再次刷新大會門檻；同校的陳逸軒則在跨欄場上大放異彩，先在110公尺跨欄跑出13.69秒，並於400公尺跨欄以52.35秒雙雙破大會紀錄封王。台北美國學校Sawyer Sinclair則在1500公尺以04:00.35的驚人成績與中正高中莊程宇（04:02.98）雙雙打破大會紀錄。市立大同高中黃凱倫躍過2.08公尺跳高橫桿，改寫歷史新頁；代表本市選手於市中運開幕典禮宣誓的陽明高中羅聖欽，更在競走項目中，以20:37.11的成績大幅刷新5000公尺競走大會紀錄。接力賽部分，市立中正高中在4x100公尺接力跑出41.98秒奪冠，而4x400公尺接力則由市立建國中學以03:18.41封王。

市立大同高中在女子組賽事中亦展現了深不可測的實力，短跑好手劉彧絜分別在200公尺（25.21秒）與400公尺（58.19秒）包辦雙金，隊友陳亞妍則以12.34秒稱霸100公尺賽道；私立再興中學的李玟儀橫掃跳躍項目，囊括跳遠（5.47公尺）與三級跳遠（11.44公尺）雙冠。在耐力項目，市立松山家商的林芮誼在5000公尺競走以24:48.44的破大會紀錄成績摘金；接力賽方面，市立大同高中不僅在4x100公尺接力以47.98秒奪魁，更在高中混合4x400公尺接力中，由楊定衡、杜怡臻、吳承祐、劉彧絜合力跑出03:39.62，成功打破大會紀錄，嶄露頭角。

國中男子組由明德國中與信義國中分庭抗禮，市立明德國中的洪寬程是本屆速度王，他在100公尺預賽跑出10.95秒破大會紀錄，決賽則以11.10秒封王；市立信義國中林洪瑞在1500公尺以04:09.98刷新大會紀錄奪冠，在長距離項目展現優勢；陽明高中黃煜恩則在3000公尺以09:50.11留下破紀錄的佳績。跨欄與接力更是本組的破紀錄熱區，市立明湖國中的許容暢在110公尺跨欄預賽（14.52秒）及決賽（14.56秒）連兩戰破紀錄；市立信義國中的羅伯瑞在400公尺跨欄預賽亦跑出55.22秒的破紀錄成績。接力賽場上，市立明德國中在4x100公尺接力預賽的42.85秒，決賽的43.23秒，皆雙雙破大會紀錄；而4x400公尺接力則由市立信義國中以03:26.91的破紀錄成績勇奪第一。

國中女子組最吸睛的巨星當屬市立大同高中葉又瑄莫屬，她展現驚人爆發力，在100公尺（12.21秒）與200公尺（24.82秒）的預、準、決各輪賽事中，共計6次打破大會紀錄，寫下歷史新頁。隊友張芃葳在跳遠賽場也不遑多讓，以5.78公尺刷新大會紀錄。跨欄場上，市立信義國中上演史詩級的表現，彭湘琇、周品妍、許靚心3位選手在400公尺跨欄決賽同時超越原大會紀錄，最終由彭湘琇以01:04.31摘金。接力賽中，大同高中同樣是紀錄製造器，在4x100公尺（48.06秒預賽、48.26秒決賽）與4x400公尺（03:55.89）雙雙突破紀錄，表現亮眼。

台北市教育局表示，本次市中運選拔菁英選手，代表本市參加中華民國115年全國中等學校運動會，賽事表現精彩可期；教育局亦將於115年4月14日辦理授旗儀式，並視各校實際訓練及參賽需求予以補助，期盼本市績優選手於全國賽場再創佳績，達成本市全中運獎牌數四連霸目標。

countries: 德國 美國 台灣 中華民國

taiwan-subdivisions: 松山 成功 信義 大同 中正


taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 新北市

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（台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）春天最歡樂的親子盛會來了！「2026新北幼來樂-幼教嘉年華」，將於3月14日(六)上午9點30分在新北市民廣場登場。現場集結超過100個特色學習攤位、親子闖關活動與精彩舞台演出，打造充滿歡笑與驚喜的「全齡共融學習樂園」，讓孩子盡情放電、玩出成長力，也讓家長一次掌握新北幼教的多元亮點。

新北市教育局表示，今年活動以「全齡共融、親子共學」為主軸，精心規劃六大主題體驗區，涵蓋數位學習、藝術創作、語言探索、情緒教育與生命尊重等多元面向，完整呈現新北幼兒園課程創新成果。家長可在體驗互動中深入了解新北推動的教保政策與教育特色，孩子也能在各園所設計的關卡裡快樂玩耍、快樂學習。

其中「AI互動體驗區」，透過趣味科技互動引導幼兒認識未來學習；「永續環境小達人」以遊戲帶孩子認識環保與愛地球；「創意手作坊」鼓勵動手做、激發想像力；「感統遊戲區」結合專業設計體驗，支持幼兒身心發展與探索能力，讓不同年齡層的孩子都能找到適合自己的學習節奏。

舞台節目同樣吸睛。深受大小朋友喜愛的MOMO與YOYO哥哥姐姐將到場陪孩子一起唱唱跳跳、嗨翻全場；「新北幼幼歡樂多語影音秀」得獎團隊也將輪番演出，展現幼兒在自然語境中學習語言的成果與自信風采，精彩不容錯過。活動當天上、下午都將安排摸彩活動，同時提供全國通用的10萬點新北幣，只要完成闖關任務，就有機會抽中精美好禮，讓孩子滿載而歸。

新北市教育局表示，這場一年一度的幼教嘉年華，讓學習走出教室、走進城市公共空間。透過沉浸式體驗與多元展演，讓家長看見新北幼教的創新與用心，也讓孩子在歡笑中探索世界、建立自信。3月14日新北市民廣場將化身1日限定大型戶外幼兒學習樂園，邀請親子家庭一起來，留下最美好的共學回憶！

title: 百攤體驗＋人氣帶動唱  2026新北幼教嘉年華3/14市民廣場登場


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（台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）為提升偏遠及離島地區學生英語學習機會、縮短城鄉教育資源差距，教育部國教署自110學年度起推動「以數位教學提升偏遠地區學生英語力計畫」，並結合夜光天使計畫，在課後時段運用數位科技突破地理限制，由「大學伴」以遠距方式陪伴孩子學英語，讓更多孩子在熟悉、安全的學習情境中，穩定累積英語使用經驗與自信。

本計畫推動迄今已邁入第五年，參與學校及學生人數逐年成長：110學年度服務44所偏遠地區學校、415名學童；至114學年度合作學校擴增至100所，累計服務小學生達2,117人次，參與遠距教學之大學伴亦累計351人次，逐步把英語學習支持送到更多需要的孩子身邊。

教育部國教署表示，本計畫聚焦三大方向：「打造個別化教學模式」、「多元數位互動平台融入教學」及「提升學生英語聽說能力」。教學採一對一、一對二及一對三的小組遠距模式，並結合「Cool English酷英線上學習平台」，營造沉浸式、互動性高且具彈性的英語學習環境，讓孩子能在循序漸進的節奏中，越來越願意嘗試開口。

學生的回饋也呈現出「被陪伴、敢開口」的改變：桃園市大坑國小學生表示，大學伴以多元方式協助學習英語單字，讓他更期待每週的遠距學習機會；雲林縣成龍國小學生分享，大學伴設計多元互動遊戲，讓她逐漸對英語產生興趣並提升學習動力；花蓮縣長橋國小學生則表示，線上學習內容生動有趣，能清楚理解並加深英語單字記憶，對英語學習更具信心。

多所學校亦回饋，本計畫對提升學生英語學習成效助益良多。學生回饋顯示，超過85%的學生認為透過遠距線上陪伴有助提升英語學習興趣，逾60%的學生表示更願意主動開口說英語；計畫推動後，學生更勇於嘗試開口、不再害怕犯錯，並能在輕鬆愉快的學習氛圍中建立學習信心。

教育部國教署進一步指出，在計畫推動過程中，「大學伴」的陪伴學習是支持孩子持續投入的重要關鍵。參與計畫之國立臺中教育大學學生分享，以英語關心學生當日心情，能感受到學生逐漸展現期待與投入；國立政治大學學生則表示，善用視訊平臺互動特效營造趣味化情境，有助學生在輕鬆互動中展現自信；國立彰化師範大學學生亦分享，學生會主動分享校園生活、積極提出問題，透過持續互動，學伴得以即時掌握學習狀況，發揮教學與陪伴的雙重角色，使遠距英語學習逐漸成為學生每週投入並期待的重要時光。

教育部國教署表示，相關計畫成果與教學紀錄已於YouTube平台持續更新，未來也將持續結合數位科技與教學創新，精進偏遠地區英語教學品質，落實教育機會均等之政策目標。YouTube 頻道連結：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1GMpEYsQJSzX2CLgbHBSeg

taiwan-subdivisions: 花蓮縣 彰化 雲林縣 臺中 桃園

title: 深化遠距英語學習陪伴 擴增偏遠地區英語學習機會


title: 教育部攜手國立中山大學創建不當資訊網路防護系統 守護台灣學術網路使用安全

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（台灣TB新聞網/資深記者劉志成）隨著網際網路與影音媒體快速發展，兒童與青少年接觸不當網路內容的風險日益升高，為保障其身心健康，教育部依據《兒童及少年福利與權益保障法》第43條與第46條之規定，在TANet範圍內推動不當內容的過濾與阻擋措施，建立安全防護機制，防止學生接觸暴力、色情、血腥、賭博等有害資訊，確保台灣學術網路之網路內容安全。為此，教育部委託國立中山大學圖書與資訊處執行「TANet青少年網路內容防護計畫」，研發專屬於教育學術單位使用之網路內容安全防護阻擋技術，建置「不當資訊防護系統（Taiwan Academic Network Website Protection，TANWP）」，推動不當內容過濾與阻擋機制，持續強化校園數位學習環境，以預防兒童與青少年在學術網路環境中接觸不當資訊內容。

「不當資訊防護系統」採用三層式防護架構，針對不同網站連線方式進行分層過濾與阻擋，可有效防制色情、暴力、恐怖、血腥、危險行為及其他可能危害身心健康之網路內容。防護系統亦透過自主蒐集黑名單、TANet使用者回報機制、iWIN網路內容防護機構受理之民眾檢舉等管道，與學術界及業界合作，持續擴充與更新防護清單，提升整體防護效能。不當資訊防護系統目前已全面部署於全台12個區網中心，防護範圍涵蓋高中、國中、小學及各級教育學術單位。該防護系統每年可過濾數千億次網頁瀏覽請求，有效降低學術網路中不當資訊之接觸風險。

目前已逐步導入人工智慧（AI）技術，結合網路爬蟲進行不當網站資料蒐集，並運用機器學習技術分析與判斷網站內容，研發系統主動偵測與防護機制，可自動檢測並阻絕不當網站。中山團隊亦強化與各區網中心、教育機構及相關組織之協作，建構跨領域聯防網絡。同時亦將防護技術應用至手機或其他智慧型手持裝置，提供家長於學術網路外可使用的網路內容防護機制，拓展防護範圍，除在學校端確保台灣學術網路使用上的內容安全，亦透過家庭端杜絕不當資訊網站內容的侵擾，共同建立兒童與青少年優質完善的網路學習環境。


title: Israel targets leaders and security forces of Iran

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PLANE HIT: The Israeli military said it shot down an Iranian Air Force fighter over Tehran, while an Iranian warship sank off Sri Lanka, with no cause known

The US and Israel yesterday hit Iran’s capital and other cities in multiple airstrikes on the fifth day of the war with Iran.

Israel targeted the Iranian leadership and security forces, while the Islamic Republic responded with missile barrages and drone attacks on Israel, and across the region.

Tehran residents woke to dawn blasts and Iranian state television showed the ruins of building in the center of the capital. The Shiite seminary city of Qom and multiple other cities were also targeted.

Smoke rises from the site of an airstrike in al-Lailaki neighborhood in Beirut yesterday as Israel launched fresh strikes on Iran and Lebanon. Photo: AFP

With fighter jets roaring overhead, those still in Tehran looked anxiously to the skies. One man, who ran a clothing shop, said he did not know what to do.

“If I leave the city, how am I supposed to earn money and survive?” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The Israeli military said one of its F-35 stealth jets shot down a piloted Iranian Air Force YAK-130 fighter over Tehran.

It also said that Israeli air defenses were activated to intercept Iranian missiles fired at targets across the country, while explosions were heard across Jerusalem.

The tempo of the strikes on Iran was so intense that authorities postponed the mourning ceremony for Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the conflict, Iranian state television reported.

Meanwhile, an Iranian naval frigate was reported in distress off the coast of Sri Lanka, prompting authorities there to respond and rescue 32 people, Sri Lanka officials said.

It was not immediately clear what happened to the ship, which Sri Lankan authorities identified as the IRIS Dena, and was armed with heavy guns, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes.

The US military said earlier that it had already destroyed 17 Iranian vessels and that its goal was sinking “the entire navy.”

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said that “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the US-Israel campaign is finished.

However, Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said on X yesterday that whoever Iran picks as the country’s next supreme leader would be “a target for elimination.”


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An Emirates flight from Dubai arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday afternoon, the first service of the airline since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Saturday.

Flight EK366 took off from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 3:51am yesterday and landed at 4:02pm before taxiing to the airport’s D6 gate at Terminal 2 at 4:08pm, data from the airport and FlightAware, a global flight tracking site, showed.

Of the 501 passengers on the flight, 275 were Taiwanese, including 96 group tour travelers, the data showed.

Tourism Administration Deputy Director-General Huang He-ting, left, and Taoyuan International Airport Corp chairman Yang Wei-fuu, center, greet people arriving on Emirates Airlines Flight EK366 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday. Photo: CNA

Tourism Administration Deputy Director-General Huang He-ting (黃荷婷) greeted Taiwanese passengers at the airport and gave them “peace crackers.”

The airline in a statement on its Web site said that all scheduled flights to and from Dubai have been suspended until 11:59pm today (UAE time) due to airspace closures across the region.

“Emirates continues to operate a limited number of passenger repatriation and freighter flights on March 3 and March 4,” it said. “We are accommodating customers with earlier bookings as a priority on these limited flights.”

“Please do not go to the airport unless you have been notified directly by Emirates or hold a confirmed booking for these flights,” the airline said, adding that it would continue to monitor the situation and develop its schedule accordingly.

Travelers are advised to check flight statuses on the Emirates’ Web site, review the latest operational updates on emirates.com, and check their e-mail for notifications about flight changes or cancelations before traveling to the airport.

The Taoyuan airport’s Web site showed that two Etihad Airways’ flights to and from Abu Dhabi yesterday were canceled.

Etihad Airways said that all flights scheduled before 6pm today have been canceled as well.

As of Tuesday, 1,240 Taiwanese traveling in Europe and the Middle East were unable to return as scheduled due to the conflict in the Middle East, including 1,140 scheduled to transit via Dubai, the Tourism Administration said yesterday.

So far, 183 Taiwanese have been reported stranded in Dubai, the agency said

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that most of the Taiwanese stranded in the Middle East were in the UAE, adding that it is aware that airport authorities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have allowed departures of a limited number of flights.

Taiwanese in Oman, Saudi Arabia or Jordan should leave as soon as possible, as the airspace in those countries was open, the ministry said.

As UAE has limited open airspace, business travelers there are advised to leave by boarding Emirates flights when services resume, the ministry said.

Because the border between the UAE and Oman is open and Taiwanese do not need a visa to enter Oman, the Commercial Office of Taipei Office in Dubai can assist Taiwanese who wish to return home on flights departing from Oman instead, the ministry said.

As Israel’s airspace is closed, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Tel Aviv would help Taiwanese travel to Jordan through land services and board flights to Europe or Southeast Asian nations from there, it said.

Taiwanese seeking to leave Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran or Iraq can contact Taiwan’s representative offices in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai or Jordan, it said.

The ministry has put up a special page on its Web site (https://www.mofa.gov.tw/theme.aspx?n=7174&sms=69&s=157) for people seeking updated information on the Middle East.

People seeking further information can contact the Dubai office at +971-506-453-018; the Tel Aviv office at +972-544-275-204; the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Saudi Arabia at +966-114-881-900; the Taipei Trade Office in Bahrain at +973-1729-2578; the Taipei Commercial Representative Office in Kuwait at +965-533-9988; the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Jordan at +962-795-552-605; or the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Oman at +968-9944-9875, the page says.

title: Emirates flight arrives amid travel chaos


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A Philippine congressional committee yesterday agreed overwhelmingly to advance an impeachment case against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, setting the stage for a potential vote that could decide her political future.

The daughter of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who last month announced a 2028 presidential bid, was impeached last year, only for the Philippine Supreme Court to toss the case out over procedural issues.

Under the Philippine constitution, an impeachment by the Philippine House of Representatives triggers a Senate trial, where a guilty verdict would ban Sara Duterte from elected office for life.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte speaks at a news conference in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, on Feb. 18. Photo: AFP

The new complaints, ruled “sufficient in substance” by a vote of 54-1 yesterday, accuse her of graft and corruption while in office, and of making a death threat against Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

She has 10 days to respond before the start of a hearing of probable cause necessary to move the complaints to a House vote.

Sara Duterte’s impeachment last year effectively bypassed the committee process, when the necessary one-third of House members signed an impeachment complaint, sending it directly to the Senate.

“Our vote today is not a verdict of guilt nor an act of condemnation. It’s simply a decision on whether the constitutional process should move forward,” Philippine Representative Ferdinand Hernandez said minutes before the vote.

The vice president’s legal team said that they would not comment on specific allegations.

“For now, we will refrain from discussing the substance of the case in the media and will instead address these matters through the proper constitutional processes,” lawyer Michael Poa said in a statement.

title: Duterte impeachment case advances


title: Jaw says KMT leadership overstepping its authority

people: 徐巧芯 賴清德 賴士葆

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‘RECKLESS CUTS’: The DPP expressed concerns about leaked opposition proposals omitting spending for the ‘T-Dome,’ saying it is like neutering the system helpless

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) member Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) yesterday accused the party leadership of overstepping its authority, after KMT lawmakers were told to vote for a defense budget bill they had not reviewed.

Jaw made the remarks at a conference with KMT lawmakers, where party members on key legislative committees said they had not seen the bill that the KMT-run National Policy Foundation drafted.

President William Lai (賴清德) in November last year announced a NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.44 billion) special defense budget, to be allocated over eight years, which included arms purchases from the US.

From left, retired navy captain Huang Cheng-hui, retired air force lieutenant general Chang Yan-ting, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin, KMT “blue fighters” leader Jaw Shaw-kong, KMT Legislator Lai Shyh-bao and retired lieutenant general Wu Sz-huai pose for a group photograph at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Tien Yu-hua, Taipei Times

After repeatedly blocking the bill, the opposition-controlled legislature on Friday last week agreed to allow the Executive Yuan’s proposal to proceed for review tomorrow, alongside a NT$400 billion version drafted by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and a version from the KMT.

The deadline gave the KMT little time to hammer out an alternative to the Executive Yuan’s proposal, as the party caucus is scheduled to convene today.

KMT legislators Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) and Lai Shyh-bao (賴士葆) told Jaw that they have not seen the document.

“It is absurd that Hsu of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee and Lai of the Finance Committee have not seen the [party’s] version of the budget,” Jaw said.

“The party’s think tank cannot replace the caucus,” he said. “It is not acceptable that the foundation did not give lawmakers a proposal that they were supposed to discuss the next day.”

Jaw urged the party leadership and lawmakers to compromise by passing a NT$350 billion portion of the government’s special defense bill, while suspending the remaining NT$810 billion, pending a detailed review of the items.

Hsu said the party lawmakers’ view is to pass the portion of the budget allocated for buying arms from the US as part of the special budget.

Spending items earmarked for domestic arms manufacturers should be relisted under the regular budget to allow legislative oversight, she said.

The KMT caucus believes the government should use punitive clauses against delayed arms deliveries as leverage in negotiating with Washington, to ensure the timely acquisition of weapons, Hsu said.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government must take full responsibility for delays should it refuse to hold the US accountable for late arms transfers, she said.

Jaw echoed her statements, saying that Taipei has a responsibility to pressure Washington regarding the weapons the nation is paying for.

Separately, DPP spokesperson Han Ying (韓瑩) told a post-Central Committee meeting that the KMT seems unable to come up with a working alternative to the government’s budget despite the nation’s urgent need for an air defense system.

The DPP in a statement expressed “concern” over the leaked outlines of the KMT’s and the TPP’s special defense budget proposals, saying that the opposition’s bills omitted critical spending items for the “T-Dome” air defense network.

The Iron Dome and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems utilized by Israel and Saudi Arabia have successfully intercepted 95 percent of Iranian missiles in the ongoing clashes, which highlighted Taiwan’s need for a comparable system, it said on Facebook.

“An integrated air defense system for Taiwan is self-evidently important in the face of the relentless threat posed by China,” it said. “Yet, we find to our disbelief that funding for the T-Dome is absent from the KMT’s and the TPP’s bills.”

The opposition’s “reckless cuts” to the defense project are tantamount to neutering the system into helplessness against the Chinese threat, the DPP said, adding that the opposition should show trust in Taiwan’s military experts and support the central government’s bill.


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MONEY LAUNDERING: Founder Chen Zhi, whose whereabouts are unknown, allegedly operated forced labor scam compounds in Cambodia and an illegal gambling network

Prosecutors yesterday indicted 62 people and 13 companies on money laundering charges involving more than NT$10.7 billion (US$337.59 million) in illicit funds through Taiwan.

The funds were linked to the Cambodia-based Prince Holding Group, which the US alleges is a front for a multibillion-US-dollar online fraud and money-laundering operation.

Prince Holding Group founder, Chinese-born Cambodian Chen Zhi (陳志), is facing up to 13 years in prison, as prosecutors seek a maximum sentence.

Suspects in a money laundering case linked to Cambodia-based Prince Holding Group arrive at the Taipei District Court yesterday. Photo: CNA

He faces charges of money laundering, conspiracy, gambling, document forgery and contraventions of the Business Entity Accounting Act (商業會計法).

The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday completed its investigation that began on Oct. 15 last year, which entailed eight search operations and resulted in the detention of nine people.

A report by the Cambodian Ministry of the Interior in January said that it had revoked Chen’s Cambodian citizenship the previous month and extradited him to China.

Although Chen’s whereabouts are unknown, the office said it moved to prosecute him regardless.

Chen allegedly ran forced labor scam compounds in Cambodia and an illegal gambling network.

Starting in 2016, he worked with a number of companies in Taiwan to establish a money laundering network, prosecutors said.

He set up a total of 250 companies across 18 countries and held 453 international bank accounts, they added.

US federal prosecutors indicted Chen and his associates on Oct. 8, while the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Oct. 14 named Prince Holding’s nine shell companies and three Taiwanese nationals as Specially Designated Nationals.

If convicted in the US, Chen faces a 40-year prison sentence. US authorities have also seized about 127,000 bitcoin valued at more than US$11 billion.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese prosecutors said they have seized more than NT$5.5 billion in assets, including NT$55 million worth of designer goods and cash, NT$447 million from 337 bank accounts and 24 real-estate properties worth NT$3.98 billion.

The district prosecutors’ office also seized 35 luxury cars worth NT$1.1 billion, 24 of which have since been auctioned for a total of NT$436.62 million.

Prosecutors said they are seeking a 20-year prison sentence and a fine of NT$250 million fine for Chen’s alleged accomplice, Li Tian (李添), while for two Singaporean nationals, it is seeking sentences of 18 years with a NT$150 million fine and 12 years with an NT$100 million fine respectively.

Prosecutors are requesting prison terms of between six and 16 years for the other defendants.

“To conceal and disguise criminal proceeds, they exploited Taiwanese to carry out money-laundering activities in Taiwan through online gambling and ?underground remittances,” the office said.

“This not only seriously disrupted ?Taiwan’s financial order and social stability, but also damaged Taiwan’s international image,” it added.

Additional reporting by Reuters


title: DRAM shortage to last through 2028: Nanya

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Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) yesterday said the DRAM supply crunch could extend through 2028, as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has led the world’s major memory makers to dramatically reduce production of standard DRAM and allocate a significant portion of their capacity for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips.

The most severe supply constraints would stretch to the first half of next year due to “very limited” increases in new DRAM capacity worldwide, Nanya Technology president Lee Pei-ing (李培瑛) told a news briefing.

The company plans to increase monthly 12-inch wafer capacity to 20,000 in the first half of 2028 after a new fab enters volume production, Lee said, adding that he expects more capacity from global memory suppliers would become available in the second half of 2028.

Nanya Technology Corp president Lee Pei-ing poses for a photograph at the company’s headquarters in New Taipei City’s Taishan District yesterday. Photo: CNA

“As the disparity in supply and demand is enormous, it is not clear if such capacity increase would be sufficient to fill the gap,” Lee said.

Nanya Technology said it expects HBM chips to account for 10 percent of the world’s total DRAM output this year, up from 7 percent last year and 4 percent in 2024.

It said it plans to spend NT$52 billion (US$1.64 billion) on capital expenditure this year to expedite the construction of a new plant in New Taipei City’s Taishan District (泰山).

Nanya Technology said it plans to utilize its 1B technology, or its second generation of 10-class nanometer technology, to produce DDR5, DDR4 and low-power DDR4 memory chips at the plant.

The new plant would have a maximum capacity of 45,000 wafers per month, the company said.

It said it would not rule out the possibility of rolling out a new capacity expansion plan, if market demand remains strong.

The US-Iran war would have minimal impact on the company’s revenue performance, given its revenue exposure of less than 1 percent to the Middle East, Lee said.

Europe, the Middle East and Africa altogether contributed about 5 percent to the company’s revenue, he said.

Nanya Technology also expects limited impact from Chinese rivals, if the US lifts restrictions on companies from using China-made chips as recent reports suggested, as product certifications would still take time, Lee said.

The company expects DRAM chip prices to jump further in the second quarter sequentially and the uptrend is to sustain through the end of this year, as demand continues to surpass supply, Lee said.

Ｎanya Technology in Janaury gave a conservative forecast that its chip prices would rise by more than 10 percent this quarter from the previous quarter.


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Industrial computer maker Advantech Co (研華) yesterday said revenue this quarter is expected to increase, driven by front-loaded orders from customers amid a shortage of memory chips, as it expressed optimism about full-year performance on the back of strong design wins.

The company said that based on current operations and an assumed exchange rate of NT$31 against the US dollar, it expects this quarter’s revenue to range from US$590 million to US$610 million, compared with NT$17.92 billion (US$565.39 million) in the previous quarter.

Rising prices of DDR DRAM and SSD chips boosted orders for this quarter, as customers placed orders last year amid concerns about component supply tightness, Advantech president of general management Eric Chen (陳清熙) told an earnings conference in Taipei.

The Advantech Co logo is pictured at a trade show in Taipei in an undated photograph. Photo: Taipei Times

Orders received in January and last month totaled about US$772 million, with the total secured for this year having exceeded US$1.13 billion, Chen said.

The company also secured US$420 million in design wins this year, up 26 percent year-on-year, he said.

Based on orders received, along with a still-strong demand for industrial computers, the company expects its sales prospects to remain stable, he added.

North America accounted for 31 percent of the company’s revenue last quarter, followed by China at 21 percent and Europe at 16 percent, he said.

The company expects revenue from North America and China to each grow by double-digit percentages year-on-year this quarter, and that from Europe is projected to increase by a high single-digit percentage, Chen said.

Advantech adopts an open pricing strategy for major customers amid the memory price surge, allowing it to pass on purchase price differences if component costs change, but has less flexibility with smaller customers, he said.

The company raised prices by 4 to 8 percent for some products last quarter, Advantech president of embedded president of embedded Internet of Things Miller Chang (張家豪) said.

After memory prices surged, the company began reviewing memory module prices every two weeks and system product prices monthly, he said, adding that memory supply remains stable in the short term.

Advantech reported net profit last quarter rose 12.2 percent quarter-on-quarter and 17.5 percent year-on-year to NT$3.1 billion. Earnings per share increased to NT$3.59 from NT$3.20 in the previous quarter and NT$3.07 a year earlier.

Gross margin rose to 39.8 percent, and operating margin increased to 15.7 percent last quarter.

Gross margin this quarter could reach as high as 40 percent, while operating margin might climb to 18 percent, Chen said.

Last year as a whole, Advantech’s revenue grew 19 percent year-on-year to NT$70.88 billion.

Revenue from the company’s edge artificial intelligence business accounted for 20 percent of total revenue and could rise to 30 percent this year, Chen added.


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SITUATION UNCLEAR: ‘I think it’s gonna take a couple of weeks for markets to really digest the implications of what has happened,’ the Goldman Sachs chairman said

Goldman Sachs Group Inc chairman David Solomon said he has been surprised by the “benign” reaction in financial markets to the Middle East conflict, adding that it would take weeks to understand more about the situation.

“It’s very hard to speculate, because there is so much that is unknown at this point,” Solomon said at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday morning.

Investors are considering whether this would become a more prolonged event and start to impact consumption, he added.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc chairman David Solomon speaks during The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday. Photo: Reuters

US assurances on securing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have helped steady nerves in markets. Still, the Iran war has reverberated across the region, with Israel bombarding Tehran in a fresh wave of strikes. The Islamic Republic fired missiles at Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, with Doha saying targets were not limited to military interests.

“I look at the market reaction, and I’m actually surprised,” Solomon said. “The market reaction has been benign.”

The S&P 500 index of US stocks fell less than 1 percent across Monday and Tuesday, partly reflecting its exposure to large technology shares that have held their ground.

Since Solomon spoke, some moves have extended, with the MSCI Asia Pacific Index slumping as much as 4.5 percent and South Korea’s KOSPI plunging more than 12 percent, putting it on track for the worst day on record. Taiwan’s TAIEX and Japan’s TOPIX were down more than 4 percent, while Thailand’s benchmark stock index plunged as much as 8 percent.

The jittery also spilled into currency markets, with India’s rupee weakened to a record low on fears that higher energy prices would stoke inflation.

US Treasuries have fallen this week amid the inflation concerns, reducing expectations for interest rate cuts. The US dollar has gained more broadly even on currencies seen as safe havens, and is up 1.4 percent on the yen this week and 0.7 percent on the Swiss franc.

Solomon said he was not surprised to see the VIX Index and other volatility measures climb.

“I think it’s gonna take a couple of weeks for markets to really digest the implications of what has happened both in the short term and medium term, and I can’t speculate as to how that would play out,” he said.

Much of the market response centers on oil prices, and whether crude can move unobstructed through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent rose above US$82 a barrel yesterday after rallying about 12 percent over two days, the biggest gain since 2020.


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TSMC aims to complete new Tainan fab in 2028 amid AI-driven expansion

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is pressing ahead with plans to build a new fabrication plant at the Southern Taiwan Science Park’s (南部科學園區) Tainan campus, with completion targeted for 2028, as booming global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips fuels aggressive capacity expansion, according to company planning documents.

The development proposal was posted online for public review on Feb. 12 as part of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. The 20-day public notice period ended yesterday, and an EIA review committee meeting is scheduled for March 26.

Construction is expected to begin later this year, with project completion and occupancy permits slated for 2028, the world’s largest contract chipmaker said.

People watch an introductory video about silicons, microchips and wafer inside the Museum of Innovation of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in Hsinchu City on Jan. 29. Photo: Daniel Ceng, AP

TSMC did not specify whether the Tainan facility will produce chips using its 2-nanometer (2nm) process technology.

The company is already building 2nm fabs in Hsinchu and Kaohsiung and planning an A14 process facility in Taichung.

The Tainan project will be located on a 15.46-hectare site in Development Block A of the science park.

About 8 hectares will be allocated for production facilities and related equipment, while 0.7 hectares will be used for administrative buildings, offices, meeting rooms, a cafeteria and parking areas.

Roughly 3.2 hectares will be set aside as green space, with the remaining 3.56 hectares designated for roads and disaster prevention infrastructure.

Once operational, the new fab is expected to create about 1,400 direct jobs and support around 500 additional positions for contractors and supply chain partners, TSMC said, without elaborating.

Due to the heightening geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, TSMC yesterday fell NT$70, or 3.62 percent, to close at NT$1,865 in Taipei trading. It had dropped 6.51 percent over the past three sessions.


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Intel names Barratt as next chairman, replacing Frank Yeary

Intel Corp named Craig H. Barratt as its next chairman, putting a tech veteran in the role at a time when the company is trying to reassert its chipmaking prowess.

Barratt, who already serves on the board, will replace Frank Yeary in the chairman job after the annual meeting on May 13, Intel said in a statement on Tuesday. Yeary, who joined the board in 2009 and led it since 2023, is a former investment banker.

Barratt previously ran Atheros Communications Inc, which was acquired by Qualcomm Inc, and held key roles at Alphabet Inc’s Google. He also served as chief executive officer of start-up Barefoot Networks Inc, which was bought by Intel in 2019. The executive, who has a strikingly similar name to former Intel CEO and chairman Craig Barrett, joined the board last year.

The Intel Corp logo is pictured on a sign in front of the company’s headquarters on Jan. 22 in Santa Clara, California. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Barratt, a Stanford University-educated Australian, takes over the board at a precarious moment. The company has suffered years of sluggish sales and shrinking market share, but chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan (陳立武) is trying to restore the company to its former glory.

Tan, an Intel board veteran himself, is a year into his turnaround bid as CEO. Though he’s had success attracting investments from the US government, Nvidia Corp and others, he still needs to show that Intel can field a competitive product line and attract outside customers to its factory network.

“Craig brings deep semiconductor expertise and a strong record of technology and operational leadership in complex, engineering-driven businesses,” Tan said in the statement. “As we enter our next phase — focused on disciplined execution, product leadership and foundry progress — his experience will be instrumental in supporting management and driving sustainable long-term value for stockholders.”

Tan has already made a series of changes to Intel’s leadership, bringing in outside executives to crucial roles. Yeary and the board said Tan’s contacts in the industry were part of the reason for choosing him to replace his ousted predecessor, Pat Gelsinger.

Yeary’s time on the board coincided with the Santa Clara, California-based company’s decline from the peak of its powers — just over a decade ago — to its current underdog status. He has presided over four CEO transitions and has dealt with the decline of Intel’s manufacturing and the rise of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電).

“I think his departure was long overdue,” Seaport Securities Corp analyst Jay Goldberg said. “Intel has made a lot of bad decisions” while Yeary has been on the board, he said.

“Lip-Bu’s biggest challenge is changing Intel’s culture and professionalizing the board will help that a lot,” Goldberg said, referring to Barratt’s appointment as chair.

Since his appointment as CEO, Tan has made big changes to Intel. Last year, Intel cut roughly 20 percent of its workforce as Tan reshaped the company’s strategy to tackle artificial intelligence. Tan has also vowed to continue to operate Intel’s factories and pursue new customers for its next-generation manufacturing tech called 14A.

The company’s struggles have even spurred speculation that it might be split up, an idea Tan has pushed back on.

In the statement, Tan credited Yeary with giving him the mandate to make needed changes at the company.

“His leadership helped guide Intel through a period of transformation and onto firmer footing for the next phase,” Tan said.

Additional reporting by Reuters

companies: Google 台積電


title: Taipei lanterns

content_text: People watch colorful lanterns at a plaza in front of Zhongshan Hall near Taipei’s Ximending shopping area yesterday.


title: Critical juncture in AI governance

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this month announced the first meeting of the new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a body composed of 40 experts selected from nearly 2,700 global applicants. It marked AI governance’s formal entry into a more institutionalized phase.

Among the panelists is professor Yutaka Matsuo, chair of Japan’s AI Strategy Council, indicative of Japan’s success in securing a crucial level of power in setting the agenda as the international community begins to form rules for global AI governance.

As the question at hand moves from one of technology to the institutionalization of rules and norms, the panel expects to release a report in July that could form the basis of digital trading rules, technological controls and industry standards for the world’s major economies.

Japan, through the participation of one of its key experts in the UN system, has the means to advance its own industry interests in the earliest stages of the norms-setting process. Meanwhile, Taiwan has long had to grapple with constantly being relegated to the status of “rules taker” instead of “rules maker.” This asymmetry naturally becomes a cause for concern for industrial competitiveness.

There are three main implications at hand.

First is that the classification of AI risks might well translate into future technological trade barriers. If major markets come to adopt the UN framework, it would result in a significant cost markup for Taiwan’s development of AI software and system integration services.

Second is the implicit barriers that come with international cooperation on tech; players that cannot meet safety and explainability standards are ultimately excluded from high-level supply chains.

Third, for small to medium-sized enterprises with limited resources, stricter regulations for specific sectors — such as medical AI and surveillance systems — means heightened uncertainty over market access.

While the disparity in rule-making authority does indeed pose a structural problem, if Taiwan could transform its existing strength in semiconductors and computing power into strategic assets for an emerging trustworthy supply chain, it could still leap from the position of capable supplier to that of trusted partner. At this critical juncture in the formation of a global AI governance framework, this would undoubtedly represent a major milestone for smart national policymaking and industrial resilience.

Chiang Tai-chin is director of the Japan Center at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.

Translated by Gilda Knox Streader


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As a Hong Konger who has called Taiwan home for four decades and a proud citizen of this nation, I watched Beijing tighten its grip on Hong Kong until my birth territory had nothing left to lose. Now, that same predator is circling Taiwan.

Chinese J-15 fighters are screaming across the Bashi Channel, armed with hypersonic teeth designed to sink Taiwan’s future. Meanwhile, Beijing’s “dark fleet” of more than 1,400 maritime militia vessels is probing our boundaries.

The Bashi Channel is not just a shipping lane. Block it and the undersea cables carrying nearly all of Taiwan’s Internet traffic go dead.

However, the foundations for a southern anchor exist. Semiconductor giant ASE Technology’s sprawl in the Philippines’ Cavite and Clark — strategic industrial hubs just south and north of Metro Manila respectively — is not just corporate offshoring; it is a high-stakes grafting of our industrial DNA into Philippine soil. The Philippines is no longer just a neighbor; it is our backup hard drive.

Our security is also tied to the 170,000 Filipino workers in Taiwan. Any Chinese aggression against Taiwan would trigger an immediate evacuation crisis for Manila, forcing Washington’s hand through sheer humanitarian pressure.

That bond is being formalized through the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, swapping digital handshakes on cybersecurity, but the real magic is subsurface: Taiwan’s southern radars now hum in sync with northern Luzon.

To truly deter Beijing’s “gray zone” war, Taipei must stop flirting with polite hand-wringing.

First, it should prioritize cofunding dual-use upgrades at Philippine sites under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) — a pact that grants the US access to strategic bases — specifically Lal-lo Airport and the Port of Irene. Those hubs would serve as semiconductor logistics spots during peace, while providing the critical capacity for humanitarian evacuation and allied reinforcement during a crisis.

Second, Taiwan and the Philippines should establish a joint cybersecurity and sovereign data hub in Batangas — a coastal gateway about 100km south of Metro Manila. Batangas serves as a primary landing point for the submarine cables keeping Taiwan’s Internet alive. By training Filipino specialists there to identify and neutralize Chinese state-sponsored malware, we would be building a digital firewall.

Third, Taipei should fast-track a defense industrial partnership to bankroll the Philippines’ Self-Reliant Defense Posture — Manila’s homegrown initiative to modernize its local military production — specifically through coproducing uncrewed aerial systems.

The timing is critical: with US Marines set for a strategic return to Subic Bay this summer to counter Chinese maritime militia harassment, Taipei must seize the moment to establish a joint ship repair facility in the same harbor. Subic Bay must become our industrial rear-guard — a secure alternative to distant hubs such as Sasebo, Japan and Guam.

The Bashi Channel, Subic Bay and fiber-optic cables running through Batangas are the physical architecture of Taiwan’s survival. Cofunding EDCA upgrades, building a joint cybersecurity hub and anchoring a ship repair facility at Subic are not acts of generosity toward Manila; they are acts of self-preservation for Taipei. As China’s shadow lengthens, a fortified southern pillar in the Philippines is the price of remaining a free nation.

Regan Chong Sik Yu is a Hong Konger advocating for Hong Kong’s independence from China and a contact person for the Hong Konger Front.

title: Philippines, the southern anchor of Taiwan


title: EDITORIAL CARTOON

content_text: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long been expansionist and contemptuous of international law. Under Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), the CCP regime has become more despotic, coercive and punitive.As part of its strategy to annex Taiwan, Beijing has sought to erase the island democracy’s international identity by bribing countries to sever diplomatic ties with Taipei. One by one, China has peeled away Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic partners, leaving just 12 countries (mostly small developing states) and the Vatican recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign nation. Taiwan’s formal international space has shrunk dramatically.Yet even as Beijing has scored diplomatic successes, its overreach


title: The war on Iran and the war on Anthropic

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Trump has launched a potentially riskier war than the Iraq War and the implications of his use of state power to crush a private firm might have even more far-reaching effects

Former Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe won the big prize in the country’s national lottery in 2000. He won for a simple reason: because he could. Once you destroy institutions constraining your power, as Mugabe did during his 37-year reign, you can rule for personal enrichment, personal aggrandizement or simply personal entertainment. What better way to demonstrate unconstrained power than showing that the existing system of rules is a farce? The damage such behavior can do to norms and institutions is part of the design.

Mugabe’s lottery echoes through two recent decisions taken by US President Donald Trump’s administration, both of which advance an agenda that seeks to remove all constraints on Trump and his allies’ future behavior.

The first decision was to launch a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran and kill the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Leaving aside the loss of life and the immediate chaos, it should be obvious that the attack would trigger a long period of instability in the Middle East.

To be sure, the Iranian regime was repressive, murderous and bad for Iranians’ economic and social well-being. Khamenei, leading elites and the feared Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had blood on their hands, including the killing and arrest of tens of thousands of protesters just since the beginning of the year.

However, none of this justifies initiating a new war in the Middle East that lacks support from international allies or any kind of domestic buy-in. The US is still considered a democracy where people’s views should in principle matter, but with Trump risking regionwide carnage, the democratic veneer appears thinner by the day.

No matter how awful Khamenei’s track record was, he was no Nicolas Maduro, who had only a few die-hard supporters even in Venezuela’s military by the time Trump intervened to capture him in January.

There will be no puppet regime in Iran, where state institutions and nationalist feeling are strong. When the Shah’s regime collapsed in the face of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the state apparatus remained largely intact and transferred its allegiance to the new Islamic republic.

That state apparatus will now defend Iranian interests and seek to use the country’s proxies to destabilize other countries. This might even give a new lease on life to proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, both of which have been gravely weakened since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel.

Moreover, by virtue of his religious role, Khamenei enjoyed respect and authority among Shiite Muslims at home, where they constitute a huge majority of the population, and abroad. For many, his killing makes him a martyr — the last thing Iran or the region needs.

Trump’s other dangerous and destabilizing decision, which immediately preceded the first, was to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. That designation, typically reserved for companies from foreign adversaries, such as China’s Huawei, bars federal contractors from using Anthropic’s models and heralds major restrictions on what the company can do in the future.

“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote on X on Friday last week.

The reason? Anthropic wanted safeguards against its models being used for mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapon systems. Neither provision would have placed meaningful restrictions on the defense department in practice. Indeed, mass surveillance of US citizens is illegal under US law and autonomous weapon systems are not a near-term possibility, but for Trump and Hegseth, it is the showdown and intimidation of Anthropic that matter. They must demonstrate that they can do as they please, just like Mugabe.

However, unlike Zimbabwe’s rigged lottery, the Anthropic decision would have major consequences, perhaps more far-reaching than the attack on Iran. Regardless of what one thinks of current AI capabilities, there is little doubt that who controls AI in the future would have momentous implications for democracy, business, communication and privacy. Many in the industry might interpret the Anthropic ban to mean that the US government, not the private sector, would control AI.

Winner-take-all dynamics (whether real or perceived) had already driven the competition between OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to fever pitch. Within hours of the Anthropic announcement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rushed to cut a deal with the defense department — a deal signaling that this competition is about to reach dangerous new heights. Altman is willing to give Hegseth everything Anthropic refused, including capabilities to contravene US law and willingness to work on autonomous weapon systems.

The implications of the action against Anthropic could be even more far-reaching. This administration, and perhaps future administrations, can now impose hugely disproportionate penalties on any contractor they disagree with. The security of private property rights is now looking much shakier.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has signaled to the world that it is intent on mass surveillance and the development of autonomous weapon systems (why else bother about these two ineffective provisions in the contract?).

Trump has arguably achieved Mugabe-level absurdity with his military attack on Iran and legal attack on Anthropic. A president who came to power promising no new foreign entanglements, especially in the Middle East, has launched a potentially riskier one than the Iraq War a generation ago — and with even flimsier justification. A president who rails against “socialism” and “far-left Democrats” uses the state to crush a private company.

However, in both cases, the absurdity is the point — as it was for Mugabe. The shock value and trampling of norms embody Trump’s personal and political credo: Rules are for suckers.

Daron Acemoglu, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and institute professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coauthor of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.

Copyright: Project Syndicate


title: China has yet to pass last year’s economic reform test

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Patchy compliance with a supreme court ruling mandating insurance payments highlights the difficulty of structural reform in China  By David Kirton, Liangping Gao and Ellen Zhang / Reuters, DONGGUAN, China

John Zhao and Charlie Wei are both unhappy with how their factory in southern China has responded to a landmark top court ruling in one of Beijing’s biggest reform steps in recent years — but their objections could not be more different.

From September last year, the court made it illegal for workers and employers to avoid social insurance payments, setting the stage for a long-term redistribution of resources from producers to consumers via the welfare system.

To minimize costs, the auto parts supplier based in Dongguan, China, restructured salaries to pay contributions only on a base wage of about one-third of 12,000 yuan (US$1,739) monthly income, said the workers, who now have to pay their share as well. They declined to name their employer.

Wei, 23, prefers “more money now,” rather than the better longer-term deal when the firm’s contributions into his social insurance account are factored in. Zhao, 37, wants the payments to reflect his full income.

“No one thinks they need a safety net until something goes wrong,” Zhao said, as the two shared a “drunken goose” meal, a southern Chinese cousin of coq au vin. “Younger people don’t understand that.”

Economists see the Supreme People’s Court ruling as a pivotal test of Beijing’s efforts to improve household finances and rebalance an export-reliant growth model that causes trade tensions and fuels disinflationary pressures.

Six months on, workers, employers and economists say compliance remains partial, raising questions over China’s ability to pursue structural economic shifts as parliament is due for its annual meeting — the most-watched gauge of Beijing’s reform momentum.

The Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Cabinet did not respond to requests for comment. In January, ministry spokesperson Cui Peng-cheng (崔?程) said social insurance reform has been “steadily promoted.”

Reuters interviews with more than a dozen workers and factory owners show firms responded to the ruling mostly in ways that minimize their own payments, in some cases even by lowering wages.

Most make payments based on a lower base wage rather than the full salary, having restructured the balance as bonuses or other benefits. Some workers and one factory owner said they still do not pay at all, because they cannot afford the contributions.

Such examples “encapsulate the policy dilemma facing China’s leaders: Can you accept short-term pain for long-term gain? The answer, in this instance, seems to be no,” said Nick Marro, an Asia analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

“This could be instructive when thinking about other difficult market-based reforms,” he added.

By making the contributions mandatory — roughly 25 percent of income for employers and about one-10th for employees — the ruling aims to bolster the social safety net, a key step toward encouraging workers to spend more now, rather than save on their own for rainy days.

However, it also raises labor costs. Avoiding such contributions historically has strengthened China’s competitiveness, turning exports into a major growth driver.

Richard Yarrow, fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, said that firms struggle to comply because low domestic demand, tariffs, high debts and price wars triggered by endemic industrial overcapacity hurt their revenues.

“If your competitors avoid paying for social insurance, then you have even more reason to avoid complying,” Yarrow said.

The owner of an industrial valves manufacturer, asking not to be named to speak frankly about the ruling’s impact, said he did not expect pressure from authorities to comply, because that would “crush” factories like his.

A furniture factory owner said he was paying higher contributions, but below the legal requirement.

“The burden on our company is already quite heavy,” he said.

Marro said authorities have “to some extent tacitly allowed companies to cut corners,” because of thin margins.

“This reflects the difficult trade-off authorities face,” he added.

Many workers feel they earn too little to contribute.

With debt to repay, Daniel Zhang, 27, works 10-hour shifts for 5,000 yuan monthly at a Shenzhen-based LED screen factory, then delivers food nightly for an extra 3,000 yuan.

“I’m in a bad state now, I feel very tired,” he said over beers, peanuts and oysters with his manager at a hawker stall. “Paying 300 to 500 yuan every month would add a lot of pressure.”

His boss, who owns shares in the factory and only gave his surname, Zou, “turns a blind eye” as 30 percent of workers insist, like Zhang, on informal contracts to avoid payments. He said the factory might close if it loses money “again” this year.

“It’s hard to fully enforce” payments, Zou added. “China is too big.”

Some employers try their best.

Maria Wang, 28, said her boss at an engineering firm in the southern city of Guangzhou sold some of his apartments and cars to cover social insurance for 50 staff.

However, the firm now struggles to pay suppliers, Wang said.

A survey of 6,689 firms in August last year by human resources firm Zhonghe Group found only 34.1 percent were “fully compliant.”

Reuters could not find more recent surveys, but revenues into the biggest social insurance scheme, urban pensions, increased 5.77 percent to 7.8 trillion yuan last year, an insignificant change over 2024’s 5.61 percent rise.

One labor lawyer said firms tend to underpay using lower base wages, which could still be illegal.

“They know there’s a risk, but they treat it like a probability problem,” said the lawyer, asking for anonymity.

Some workers bear costs greater than their mandated contributions.

Finance worker Yu, 26, took a 27 percent net income cut under threat of being laid off. To meet payments, her employer reduced her wage by 800 yuan to 4,000 yuan. Yu now also contributes 500 yuan.

Garment worker Xia, 39, is resisting a similar demand, together with her colleagues.

“We’re all from rural areas, our wages are already low. If they deduct 600 yuan, what’s left doesn’t even cover living costs,” Xia said.


title: Taiwan defeated in Asian Cup opener

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TOUGH RIVALS: Taiwanese goalkeeper Wang Yu-ting produced a superb performance as Japan attempted 30 shots and enjoyed almost 90 percent of possession

Bayern Munich midfielder Momoko Tanikawa yesterday finally cracked a dogged Taiwan as powerhouse Japan won their AFC Women’s Asian Cup match in Perth, Australia, 2-0.

Brimming with a talented squad featuring 16 England-based players, Japan dominated a one-sided match played in fierce heat, but they were left frustrated by an inability to hit the target other than Tanikawa’s strike in the 61st minute and a header from substitute Kiko Seike in the 92nd minute.

The highest-ranked team in the competition at eight, Japan are desperate for a third title to add to their back-to-back triumphs in 2014 and 2018, but they would need to clean up their finishing touches after attempting 30 shots and enjoying almost 90 percent of possession.

Taiwan’s Wang Yu-ting, left, makes a save during their AFC Women’s Asian Cup Group C match against Japan at HBF Park in Perth, Australia, yesterday. Photo: EPA

Taiwan, who reached the last eight in the last edition in 2022, fought gamely with goalkeeper Wang Yu-ting producing a superb performance.

Under Greenland-born Nils Nielsen, Japan’s first foreign-born women’s coach, the team has vowed to play in a fast and brash manner. Japan were aggressive from the outset and peppered the goal, but without success.

Taiwan were clinging on against the odds with Wang pulling off a spectacular save to deny a bullet from Mina Tanaka. Tanikawa then hit the left post as Japan had an astonishing 13 shots within the opening 15 minutes.

Taiwan’s woes deepened when forward Pu Hsin-hui limped off the field after an apparent left knee injury.

They continued to bravely defend, leaving Japan flustered as the teams took a drinks break at the 32nd minute with the temperature hitting 36°C.

Japan came perilously close to breaking the deadlock just before halftime only for Wang to prove a torn. Taiwan’s embattled defense had 35 clearances in the first half, with each one cheered enthusiastically by vocal Taiwanese supporters, who livened up the sparse terraces.

Wang was again put to work after the interval as she smothered Tanaka’s attempt from short range, but she was finally helpless when Tanikawa slotted home after being on the receiving end of a superb pass from Hana Takahashi. Japan’s celebrations were made to wait with the video assistant referee needed to determine whether the ball deflected Tanikawa’s hand on the way down.

It was Japan’s only goal until Seike stepped up late.


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Japan’s aborted 1874 invasion of Taiwan reveals how the island’s present unity emerged not from destiny, but from the accidents and constraints of imperial competition

Japan’s expedition to southern Taiwan in 1874 was ostensibly aimed at chastising the local indigenous people for killing shipwrecked Okinawan and Japanese mariners. In reality, it was a knowing attempt to establish colonies in southern and eastern Taiwan “in the hope that Japan would be able to take over the entire island in a few year’s time,” as Robert Eskildsen observed in a useful paper on the Japanese Navy’s role in the 1874 invasion. The expedition even prepared seeds of European trees in anticipation of the plantations that would be established

Why did the Japanese colonial program fail in 1874? The opposition of the Manchu (Qing) empire, then in control of roughly half the island, helped prevent the emergence of Japanese colonies, but a key factor was the parlous state of Japan’s navy.

IMPERIAL EXPANSION

Map of the area drawn by Charles LeGendre showing where the Rover’s crew landed on Eastern Taiwan (bottom middle of map). Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

An important player in Japanese thinking about Taiwan was Charles LeGendre, the former US consul in Amoy (Xiamen) in southern China. LeGendre had visited southern Taiwan in the aftermath of the 1867 Rover Incident (羅妹號事件) and was familiar with the Manchu empire’s weak hold on southern and eastern Taiwan. In the fall of 1872 he drew up a series of memos at the request of the foreign minister, Soejima Taneomi, outlining how Taiwan should be handled, in the context of possible imperial expansion. One aspect of his analyses that met resistance in Japanese official circles, Eskildsen says, was LeGendre’s assertion that war with the Manchu empire was highly likely if Japan attempted to occupy part or all of Formosa. LeGendre considered it inevitable, and laid out how Tokyo should station its ships and troops to make a stab at Formosa when the war began.

The 1874 invasion of the south was thus just one possibility among the many ways Japan might have moved on Taiwan in that period. According to Eskildsen, LeGendre suggested stationing troops in Okinawa which could be quickly moved to Taiwan’s ports in the event of war. LeGendre thought the slain Okinawan sailors would make a fine pretext for Japan to seize Taiwan and Penghu.

LeGendre offered numerous scenarios, but the gist of the problem was that Japan needed a functional navy to carry out these projects. Although naval strengthening was already a couple of decades old when the Meiji Restoration occurred in 1868, Japan lacked both modern ships and the sailors to crew them. It had a tiny industrial base and defense spending went to the army out of fear of domestic rebellion.

Eskildsen cites an American advisor, Douglas Cassel, who had been sent to help establish a Japanese colony in what is now Taitung. Cassel sent a long missive to LeGendre bemoaning the lack of suitable steamships, saying Japan possessed only one steamship that could be used in such a task. As the expedition went on, cases of malaria and other diseases skyrocketed, requiring the government to ship in more troops and medical resources. Yet the military lacked shipping, and was forced to rely on commercial vessels.

Another problem was trained naval officers. The Japanese military had Japanese commanders, but in many cases they were effectively commanded by foreigners. A few months before the 1874 invasion a Japanese army officer named Kabayama Sukenori (later the first Japanese governor-general of Taiwan) traveled to Yilan County’s Nanao Township (南澳) to scout the area for a possible base that could be used to expand southward along the coast. That area had also been a site of interest for other colonial powers. The warship he traveled on was commanded by a British captain.

INSUBORDINATION

Still another might-have-been with the 1874 expedition is laid out in an interesting article by Danny Orbach on Japanese military’s habit of insubordination at all levels. Orbach traces the roots of this institutional culture indirectly to the 1874 expedition.

Most prominent, of course, is the fact that the invasion itself was an act of insubordination. In April of 1874, the Japanese appointed Saigo Tsugumichi to head the expedition to Taiwan. As the expedition was readied, word of it spread in the western press, and one by one, the major western powers withdrew permission for their citizens to participate. The government began to get cold feet, and ordered it to stop. Saigo, however, waved his imperial decree giving him permission to proceed, arguing too that everything was already in motion.

“The fact that Saigo had received his orders in the form of an edict,” Orbach writes, “and their revocation was a mere government instruction, provided him with optimal conditions to utilize the authority of the emperor for his own purposes.”

The invasion went ahead against government orders. What if Saigo had obeyed?

Once on the ground, the insubordination multiplied. Cassel was among the foreign advisors and observers who noted that junior officers and enlisted men frequently attacked without orders. Their private expeditions threatened good relations with the local indigenous people. J. R. Wasson, an American military officer serving in the Japanese military, noted how soldiers in the rear frequently charged through the lines to the front to participate in the action, despite orders. Early in the decisive Battle of the Stone Gate the Japanese commander ordered his men to retreat, but his men ignored him and continued fighting.

The Japanese military was probably too weak to extend Japanese rule over all of Formosa at that point, but the 1874 expedition confirmed Manchu military weakness in Taiwan. This realization played a role in the French invasion in the Sino-French war a decade later, and in the speculation by the imperialist powers about how they might grab Taiwan. If Saigo had not defied orders from the government, perhaps some other power would have moved on Taiwan. Instead, ironically, the settlement between the two empires ended up with Japan confirming Manchu rule over the island and inspiring the Manchus to upgrade the island’s defenses.

The 1874 expedition shows how, as the west coast of Taiwan became occupied and administered, in the 19th century the attention of would-be colonizers began shifting to the south and east of Taiwan, since they lay outside Manchu control. Early in the century outsiders became well aware of this. For example, the 1807 edition of John Aikins’ Geographical Delineations: Or, A Compendious View of the Natural and Political State of All Parts of the Globe observes that Taiwan was divided into eastern and western parts, “of which the latter only is possessed by the Chinese, while the eastern is left to the original inhabitants.”

The Japanese incursion also highlights how today when we speak of “Taiwan,” we are actually speaking in a subtly anachronistic manner: we treat it as a unitary object with a single destiny, as it is seen today. Preceding history is treated as a prologue to this unity. In the great age of imperialism it was seen as Africa, a place inhabited by various peoples, pieces of which could be bitten off by any power willing to do so. Yet, the island was not ruled in its entirety by a single power until the 20th century and it was only historical contingency that it ended up that way.

Notes from Central Taiwan is a column written by long-term resident Michael Turton, who provides incisive commentary informed by three decades of living in and writing about his adoptive country. The views expressed here are his own.

title: Notes from Central Taiwan: The contingent path to Taiwan


title: Donovan’s Deep Dives: The Power and perils of ‘Mirror Media’

people: 柯文哲 林宜瑾 王定宇 黃珊珊

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Taiwan’s most influential investigative outlet drives the news cycle with blockbuster leaks — but its dominance raises questions about framing, context and trial by media

Taiwan’s Chinese-language news media landscape is dramatic, richly textured and moves at lightning speed. It is also surprisingly large, boasting a complexity and variety one would expect from a far larger country. Taiwan is a nation of news junkies.

The more neutral outlets come in two varieties. The Central News Agency (“Focus Taiwan” in English) is government-funded and must be extremely careful in their reporting, making them reliable, but bland. The other type has a business model more focused on attracting readers and viewers than making any partisan point, though individual journalists may lean one way or another. What sells is what runs.

By far the most powerful of these is Mirror Media’s weekly magazine (鏡週刊) and Web site. There is an affiliated cable news channel that is mired in controversies, but that is a complex subject beyond the scope of this column.

A photo of Mirror Media’s coverage of the trial for corruption of Taiwan People’s Party founder Ko Wen-je.  Photo: Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times

Much of what Mirror Media covers is similar to other outlets: traffic accidents, baseball, food, sex scandals and any excuse to feature pictures of scantily clad women. These are the bread-and-butter drivers of viewership of most news outlets, for better or worse. Where the outlet really stands out is their investigative journalism and prodigious talent for enticing leakers, exerting a gravitational pull over the entire news landscape. They drop bombshell after bombshell, leaving all the other news outlets scrambling to cover it.

This has landed the outlet in more than a few controversies and conspiracy theories. Single-handedly driving so much of the news cycle (even sometimes in English), they deserve scrutiny.

BIAS

They are frequently accused of partisan bias, particularly when a bombshell negatively impacts one party or another. After many years of reading their content, my sense is they are primarily driven by money.

In my bookmark folders, the number of Mirror reports in “Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) scandals” and “Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) scandals” are roughly simila. The number in the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) folder, however, is huge. Is this bias, or just what they were able to find to drive traffic?

FACTUALITY

On factuality, in very rare occasions Mirror Media’s reporting has proven to be outright false. For example, in August 2024 when prosecutors were conducting raids and beginning to arrest people in the Core Pacific case that alleges that former Taipei mayor and TPP founder Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) engaged in a corruption conspiracy, Mirror reported that prosecutors had raided the legislative office of Vivian Huang (黃珊珊), a then-TPP lawmaker and former deputy mayor when Ko ran Taipei City.

They were correct about the raid, but wrong about which lawmaker. It turned out to be Lin I-chin (林宜瑾) of the DPP over a totally unrelated case. Other news outlets rushed out reports based on Mirror’s false reporting.

However, such cases are rare. The vast majority of their reporting is accurate.

MISLEADING REPORTING

More problematic is that their content is often misleading. While writing this column, for example, Mirror Media released reports on DPP Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) having an extramarital affair with a corporate executive. Wang released a statement, however, saying that he had quietly gotten amicably divorced awhile back, which appears confirmed by his ex-wife. Clearly, though the reporters had tailed Wang and demonstrated he was spending time with the woman in question, they were unaware that his marital status had changed and what they had discovered was — it now appears — to be a private, consensual affair between single adults.

Mirror Media famously ran a string of leaks related to the Core Pacific case, especially related to Ko Wen-je.

Following Ko’s arrest and detention incommunicado, the TPP accused the president and the DPP of “weaponizing the judiciary” to “expunge political opponents.”

There is no proof it goes that high up the food chain, but they are absolutely correct in highlighting the volume and nature of the leaks Mirror Media was running. Someone — or some people — with access to the prosecutor’s office was leaking in a big way.

Given juicy leaks, of course any news outlet is going to run with them. Mirror Media was doing what news outlets do, but somehow, a very high percentage of leaks of all kinds go to this one outlet.

RAISING QUESTIONS

The leaks raise a lot of questions.

Who was doing the leaking and what was their motivation?

Initially, these leaks hit Ko and the TPP’s poll numbers hard. People rushed to the conclusion that he was guilty, which is problematic because nobody at that point knew if he was guilty. But the leaks gave that impression.

How selective were the leaks, and how much context did they leave out? Without a full picture, cherry-picked details can be dangerously misleading.

There is a liklihood that the leaks were done with an agenda. The problem with Mirror Media is not that they ran with the leaks, but failed to inform readers of the potential for such risks or the context — or lack thereof.

This led to too many people coming to partisan conclusions without adequate facts, from DPP supporters hoping to see Ko fall, to TPP supporters spinning wild conspiracies.

On March 26, the judges will deliver their ruling. By then, they will have seen all the evidence for and against — not cherry-picked details for public consumption. They will have spent months deliberating and should rule based on their extensive knowledge of the law. In theory, they should apply the law impartially and professionally — and appeals can be filed if that is in question.

Until then, Ko remains unconvicted of any crime and should be presumed innocent.

In this case, and many others, it is crucial to remember that a democracy is rule by law, not trial by Mirror Media.

Donovan’s Deep Dives is a regular column by Courtney Donovan Smith (石東文) who writes in-depth analysis on everything about Taiwan’s political scene and geopolitics. Donovan is also the central Taiwan correspondent at ICRT FM100 Radio News, co-publisher of Compass Magazine, co-founder Taiwan Report (report.tw) and former chair of the Taichung American Chamber of Commerce. Follow him on X: @donovan_smith.


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Chinese consumers scout lower prices, secondhand goods as spending sputtersStagnating wages, youth unemployment and a years-long property crisis are making consumers rethink their spending

In a Shanghai shopping center, customers browsed racks of used winter coats, US$2 trousers and household appliances — pre-used items that would have been out of place in a major Chinese mall a decade ago.

But these days, stagnating wages, youth unemployment and a years-long property crisis are making consumers rethink their spending. China’s leaders will likely announce policies aimed at boosting domestic consumption at the annual Two Sessions political conclave this week, but they face an uphill battle.

“Everyone is feeling the pinch financially, so everyone is looking for cheaper stuff,” said Liu, a 42-year-old secondhand book buyer visiting the Shanghai store.

A longstanding taboo in Chinese culture against used goods, seen as unclean or a shameful sign of poverty, is lifting rapidly.

“Getting a free milk tea is better than paying full price for it,” Liu, who gave only her surname, offered as an analogy for her outlook.

Online, the secondhand market is flourishing too, led by Xianyu, the Alibaba-owned answer to eBay with more than 600 million users, and Zhuanzhuan, a Tencent-backed resale platform known mainly for electronics.


countries: 台灣 挪威

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SPEAK UP: More hit movies to see amid 2026 Oscar season (1/2) 奧斯卡將揭曉、強片在台上映（上）

A: The Oscars are set to take place next weekend. It’s a pity that the Taiwanese film “Left-handed Girl” got snubbed.

B: And this year, the horror film “Sinners” broke the all-time record with 16 nominations, followed by “One Battle After Another” with 13 nods. Both are nominated for Best Picture.

A: What are other Best Picture contenders?

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the world premiere of “One Battle After Another.” 男星李奧納多狄卡皮歐參加《一戰再戰》首映。 Photo: EPA 照片：歐新社

B: The nominees are: “Bugonia,” “F1: The Movie,” “Frankenstein,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme,” “The Secret Agent,” “Train Dreams” and Norwegian film “Sentimental Value.”

A: It’s so hard to choose from. Some of them haven’t been released in Taiwan yet. I hope they’ll be released soon.

A: 本屆奧斯卡獎下週即將揭曉，可惜國片《左撇子女孩》未入圍。

B: 恐怖片《罪人》共獲得16項提名，打破影史紀錄。《一戰再戰》則獲得13項提名緊追在後，都是最佳影片大熱門！

A: 入圍最佳影片的還有哪些啊？

B: 入圍的有：《暴蜂尼亞》、《F1電影》、《科學怪人》、《哈姆奈特》、《橫衝直闖》、《這不只是個間諜故事》、《火車大夢》、挪威片《情感的價值》。

A: 真是難以決擇，其中好幾部還沒在台灣上映，希望他們能儘快上檔。

（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）

For your information Language Tip 語文小提示 snub (v.) 冷落、怠慢；嚴厲斥責；厲聲制止1: to check or stop with a retort: rebuke2: to restrain the action of: suppress3: to treat with contempt or neglect: snub an old acquaintance4: to extinguish by stubbing: snub out a cigarettesnub (n.)snubness (n.)snub or snubbed (adj.)


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铃木将涉足被视为下一代电动汽车（EV）关键技术的全固态电池业务。该公司4日与日本企业Kanadevia（原日立造船）签署了业务转让协议。由于全固态电池更容易提升续航里程，被认为是下一代电池的最有力候选。铃木将接手Kanadevia的相关技术和验证设备，推进面向实用化的研究。

业务转让预计于7月1日完成。转让金额未公开，不过Kanadevia预计将在2026年7~9月季度的合并财报中，将约74亿日元的转让收益计入特别收益。

全固态电池使用固体电解质，而非目前主流的液体电解质。由于能够进一步降低起火风险，并能耐受高温运行，因此被认为安全性更高。与现有的锂离子电池相比，其能量密度更高，也更容易提升车辆续航里程。

Kanadevia自2006年起就推进全固态电池的研发。凭借自主技术，使电池具有不会发生液体泄漏等高安全性特点。2023年，该公司还获得了一家半导体设备制造商的订单。

title: 鈴木涉足全固態電池業務