Earlier this month, the Ministry of Justice withdrew proposed amendments to the Criminal Code that would have raised fines and increased criminal penalties for abortion. The amendments were quickly withdrawn in a few days after pushback from women’s rights groups...
Claims by pan-Blue lawmakers that Nvidia sought to purchase 10 terawatt-hours of green energy for its first Asian research center and Taipei-1 supercomputer bring together several thematics in efforts by the pan-Blue camp to sow doubt in the Lai administration. Such allegations were made by TPP legislator Chang Chi-kai, who alleged that these requests were made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang of Minister of Economic Affairs JW Kuo...
The Lai administration has continued to be strategically ambiguous regarding nuclear energy. In comments to Bloomberg late last month, Premier Cho Jung-tai expressed a willingness to use nuclear energy to meet energy demands for AI. It is expected that Taiwan may play a key role in the growing AI sector, particularly regarding the use of chips, seeing as Taiwan already plays a preeminent role in global semiconductor manufacturing. Cho stated that as long as there was social consensus on nuclear energy, particularly regarding the disposal of nuclear waste, that it was fine to proceed...
The Taichung city government came under fire late last month after a bus accident led to the death of a university student and injured another student. The two university students were studying at Tunghai University...