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Antonelli wins in Japan to lead F1 standings
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (591+ words) Mercedes" Kimi Antonelli yesterday vowed to "keep raising the bar" after winning the Japanese Grand Prix to become the youngest driver in Formula One history to lead the championship standings. The 19-year-old Italian took advantage of a mid-race safety car…...
Fubon Guardians dominate Brothers in season opener
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (325+ words) The Fubon Guardians last night dominated the CTBC Brothers 8-2, while the Uni-President Lions earned their first win of the season and the Wei Chuan Dragons humbled the Rakuten Monkeys on the second day of the CPBL season. First baseman Fan…...
MND details defense needs in report to legislature - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (400+ words) Separating the Executive Yuan's proposed eight-year NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.21 billion) special defense budget from the general budget would help avoid crowding out spending on public needs, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said. The ministry made the remarks in a…...
‘I feel more alive’: Elderly people turn to parkour - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (671+ words) In a corner of suburban Singapore, Betty Boon vaults a guardrail, crawls underneath a slide, executes forward shoulder rolls and scales a steep slope, finishing the course to applause. "Good job," the 69-year-old's coach cheers. This is "geriatric parkour," where…...
Special defense budget could help local industry - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (678+ words) The US supports a comprehensive special defense budget because it focuses on two core objectives " building a "non-red supply chain" and building redundancy for "logistics and replenishment," a defense analyst said yesterday. Deliberations over the special defense budget hit a…...
Cancer spending hit NT$156.7bn: NHIA - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (684+ words) National Health Insurance (NHI) spending on cancer treatments last year rose to a record NT$156.7 billion (US$4.92 billion), up NT$26.5 billion from 2020, with an average annual growth rate of about 5 percent, NHI data showed. The number of patients seeking cancer…...
CPC, Formosa to raise fuel prices - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (471+ words) State-owned oil supplier CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, ") on Saturday said it would raise gasoline and diesel prices by NT$1.7 and NT$1.5 per liter respectively this week, while Formosa Petrochemical Corp () yesterday announced similar increases. CPC and Formosa cited higher global…...
Central bank posts US$7.69bn in forex buys - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (516+ words) The central bank bought US$7.69 billion more US dollars than it sold last year on the local foreign exchange market to "smooth currency volatility," it said in a report released on Friday. In the report submitted to the Legislative Yuan…...
Malinin earns Olympic redemption with world gold - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (416+ words) American Ilia Malinin on Saturday returned to the pinnacle of his sport as he skated to a third world title and shrugged off the shock of an eighth-place finish at last month's Olympics. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of…...
Salon owner fined for burn that led to woman’s suicide - Taipei Times
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (311+ words) The owner of a hair salon in Tainan has been ordered to pay NT$480,000 (US$15,056) to the parents of a woman who committed suicide after receiving facial burns during a treatment at the salon in 2022. The mental health of the…...