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You can finally pick up your Quintuple Stimulus Vouchers just in time for the three-day Double Ten holiday in Taiwan.

The TAIEX closed lower yesterday as investors acted cautiously ahead of the Double Ten National Day long weekend and sold shares to profit from early gains, dealers said. Stocks across every sector faced downward pressure after an early upturn, but some large-cap stocks, including contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), encountered late buying to limit the broader market’s losses, they said. The TAIEX closed down 73.43 points, or 0.44 percent, at 16,640.43. Turnover totaled NT$271.032 billion (US$9.66 billion). Selling, focused particularly on steel and sh...

Light spectacle pays homage to Olympic athletes, Taiwanese culture | 2021-10-06 10:16:00

Since the Chinese National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed the Hong Kong National Security Law on June 30 last year and it came into force in the territory that same day, merely campaigning for Hong Kong’s prior democracy and freedoms can result in being arrested for “inciting subversion of state power.” After the COVID-19 pandemic ended mass protests against a proposed legal amendment that would have made it possible for Hong Kongers to be extradited to China, there have been numerous acts of retribution against democracy advocates. In such a tense and fearful atmosphere, ...

China’s bullying of Taiwan has only incurred further ill feeling toward its communist regime and pushed more countries to side with Taiwan, as shown by an uproar involving the International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA). The association removed Taiwan’s flag during a live broadcast of the Individual Depth Freediving World Championship in Cyprus on Tuesday. Although it apologized two days later, AIDA Taiwan said it was given two options: leave the space for the flag empty or compete under the banner of “Chinese Taipei.” Backing AIDA Taiwan, AIDA Japan asked the associa...