In the constitutional review case of death penalty, the Taiwan’s Constitutional Court announced the verdict this afternoon (20th,Sept) that the death penalty is constitutional for homicide, forcible homicide, robbery homicide, and kidnapping for ransom homicide, but the application is restricted. Wang Xinfu and 37 other death row inmates believe that the death penalty violates the…
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo Li-hsiung United States President Joe Biden announced in July 2023 that he would use the “Presidential Drawdown Authority” (PDA) to provide Taiwan with $345 million in armaments, but the US Department of Defense Supervision Department recently issued a report saying that some of the relevant equipment has expired ammunition, messy…
China’s Ministry of Finance announced this evening (18th,Sept) that because Taiwan has unilaterally adopted discriminatory prohibitions and restrictions on the export of mainland products, which has seriously hindered cross-strait economic and trade cooperation, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council of China announced that it will stop implementing the import tariff exemption policy for…
The Tainan District Prosecutors Office On 18th Sept., The Tainan District Prosecutors Office of the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office announced that it had cracked the CCP’s plan of developing spys in Taiwan, and investigated and prosecuted 23 people, of whom 8 were active military personnel, covering the army, navy, air force, and coast guard, and…
The pager used by members of the Lebanon Allah Party, including fighters and medical staff, exploded in more than Lebanon places on 17th Sept., and the pager was accused of coming from the Taiwan Gold Apollo company. On 18th, Sept., The Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said that Taiwan did not directly export the…
by Jake Sanders, Editor Reports from senior Lebanese security sources suggest that Israel’s Mossad spy agency inserted a small amount of explosives into 5,000 pagers with parts supplied to a company called BAC Consulting by Taiwan and assembled in Hungary. Pagers were ordered by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah five months prior to Tuesday’s explosions….
Richard Bush, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan by Dave Chamberlain, Staff Writer Richard Bush, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, highlighted China’s military threats and non-military coercion against Taiwan are challenges to the security partnership between the United…
5th Tactical Mixed Wing demonstrated the missile installation operations of F16V fighters. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced its latest arms sales to Taiwan on 16th Sept, an “Air Force spare parts Repair and Return” case with a total price of US$228 million (approximately NT$7.26 billion) to support Taiwan’s modernization of its military…
the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office In the case of the Core Pacific City (京華城), the media reported that “key flash drives were found” and “safe deposit boxes were seized”, which caused suspicions of leakage. On the 9th, the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office (TPC, 台北地檢署) investigated the case separately and successively summoned reporters from weekly magazines…
The Netherlands parliament recently passed a motion rejecting China’s distortion of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution 2758, and the Chinese embassy in Netherlands called on the Netherlands to abide by the one-China principle, accusing the motion of distory (ting the UNGA resolution. The Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs severely condemned China’s means of…