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Ten lawmakers indicted over legislative brawls

Taipei Times

Ten lawmakers from the two main political parties yesterday were indicted for causing bodily injury and other offenses during a spate of brawls inside the legislative chamber and a committee room in 2024 and last year.

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介), Liao Wei-hsiang (廖偉翔), Chiu Cheng-chun (邱鎮軍), Huang Chien-hao (黃健豪), Huang Jen (黃仁), Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) and Chen Yu-jen (陳玉珍), as well as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬), Michelle Lin (林楚茵) and Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) were charged following the investigation of criminal complaints, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said.

Huang Kuo-chang not fit to run

Jang Show-ling 鄭秀玲

Over the past two years, under the leadership of President William Lai (賴清德), the government has managed to harness enormous opportunities from the era of artificial intelligence and expand into more diversified international trade markets in a series of extraordinary economic achievements.

The IMF has projected that Taiwan’s GDP per capita last year might surpass that of Japan and South Korea. Taiwan’s stock market index recently reached a historic high of more than 32,000 points, with a total market capitalization of more than NT$100 trillion (US$3.2 trillion), making it the world’s seventh-largest equity market.

US, Taiwan to shift focus to security, former official says

Taipei Times

After a tariff agreement was reached this week addressing key economic issues, Taiwan and the US can now focus more on security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, a former White House official said on Friday.

Alexander Gray, who served as deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff of the US National Security Council during US President Donald Trump’s first term, made the comments in an interview with the Central News Agency.

Gray called the trade deal a “very positive development in the US-Taiwan relationship,” as Washington has had several disagreements with Taiwan on trade matters over the years, going back to the first Trump administration.

Mother tongues are a vanguard

Liou Uie-liang 劉威良

At the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) New Generation National Strategic Talent Empowerment Workshop in Taipei from Thursday to Sunday last week, DPP Secretary-General Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said that Taiwanese society often uses terms originating from China in everyday life.

“Although this might seem trivial, it has the potential to become a starting point for cultural infiltration, demonstrating that strategic thinking does not exist solely at the policy level. It should also be practiced in daily behavior, and individuals should make judgements and respond at all times based on their respective roles,” he said.

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