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台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > world > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862596

Lighting the forest

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (329+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A firefighter uses a headlamp to check a forest floor for burning embers and hot spots in the Landes forest in Luglon, France, on…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > world > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862590

US allows???pirates??? to fight cybercrime

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (510+ words) The US is to allow private companies to hack foreign cybercriminal groups after US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum that directed the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Homeland Security to allow some US…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > world > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862592

Woman sues Vienna over???discriminatory??? toilet fees

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (478+ words) A woman is suing the Vienna City Council for discrimination over access to public toilets, complaining that women must pay to use cubicles while men can use urinals for free. “I was in a park with a friend and we…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > world > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862593

Trump says Strait of Hormuz to be made a US territory

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (246+ words) US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he would “finish defeating” Iran and “soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz part of US territory. Trump has repeatedly said that the key energy waterway, which Tehran effectively closed at the start…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > biz > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862556

Online peptide craze fuels risky self-optimization

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (684+ words) Thomas’ phone alarm buzzes at 9:30pm — it is time for the aspiring bodybuilder to start injecting himself in the stomach with several banned peptides. He takes vials from his refrigerator of GHK-Cu, which he says would give him “beautiful skin,” and…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > taiwan > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862588

Gotta catch???em all

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (293+ words) Gotta catch ’em all Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Gotta catch ’em all Taipei Metro director Feng Chao-hsing, left, and Pokemon Go Asia-Pacific senior marketing director Hsu Shih-wan hold…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > front > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862565

Cabinet to restore NT$1.25tn proposal

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (454+ words) The Executive Yuan is to restore its proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.01 billion) special defense budget, which was cut by the opposition, through next year’s central government budget and this year’s supplementary budget, a source said yesterday. The legislature on Friday…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > taiwan > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862589

Ghostly game

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (424+ words) People visit the 2026 Cultural Ghost Festival: Book Spirits Market x Pudu Night event hosted by bookstore Left Turn Books in Taipei yesterday. The event, coinciding with the seventh month of the lunar calendar, traditionally known in Taiwan as Ghost Month,…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > taiwan > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862586

New technique for using incense cedar developed

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (350+ words) The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute said it is promoting full utilization of Taiwan’s incense cedar to develop a high-value circular economy for forest resources. Incense cedar is an endemic species of Taiwan and is one of Taiwan’s five major coniferous…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > taiwan > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862580

Taiwan could host more clinical trials

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (682+ words) Taiwan should capitalize on its strengths in Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials and strive to overtake competitors, with the goal of establishing Taiwan as an “Asia-Pacific center for innovative treatments for rare diseases,” said Minister of Health and Welfare Shih…...