Your Daily Update
TAIEX Pauses Below 50,000 as National Day Week Puts Markets, Ballots, and Ballparks on Taipei Time
Foreign funds sold heavily into the last cash session before the Double-Ten holiday, while Micron labor tension, KMT infighting, flu and COVID shots, a Banqiao concert, and a Brothers playoff win filled the rest of the Taiwan desk.
StocksCapitalization-Weighted Gauge Ends at 49,313.44 After NT$869.7 Billion Turnover Day
The capitalization-weighted index finished at 49,313.44 after foreign investors sold NT$758.52 billion on Thursday, capping a week that still posted a 1.73 percent gain ahead of the National Day market closure.
Today's picks
BusinessSinotrade Survey Points to October Restocking Lift for Taiwan PCB and Passive Makers
PoliticsNikkei Reports U.S. and China Are Tracking KMT Leadership Split Before Local Elections
AILai Asks Visiting U.S. Lawmakers to Co-Develop Drones and AI Military Decision Tools
SecurityTalos Documents UAT-11985 Adversary-in-the-Middle Kit Against Google Workspace Users in Taipei
HealthPandemic Vaccination Desks Extend Hours at Taipei Station as 395,000 COVID Doses Go Into Arms
EntertainmentSlam Dunk Vocalist Maki Ohguro Caps Banqiao Double-Ten Lineup for 9,000 Ticket Holders
SportsTaichung Nightcap Finishes 4-1 as Mario Sanchez Fanning Six Batters in Seven Frames
SecurityFour Chinese Coast Guard Ships Leave Kinmen After Two-Hour Confrontation on Eve of Double Ten
SecurityTaiwan FSC Publishes DevSecOps Push Inside FORCE-B Cyber Resilience Blueprint
PoliticsU.S. Envoy Says Investors Overprice Taiwan Strait War Risk at Milken Asia Summit
PoliticsHsu Chiao-hsin Takes Foreign Affairs and National Defense Gavel Beside Wang Yi-chuan
SportsUni-President Staff Sets Game-One Starter Against Brothers With Series Handicap
EntertainmentHeart of the Beast Holds Second Spot in Taipei Theatrical Chart
HealthH1N1 Accounts for 90.7 Percent of Lab-Detected Flu A as Holiday Crowds Build
ScienceCVD-Grown 1H MoS₂ Bilayer Lands in Nature With NTNU-NCKU Research Team
ScienceFormosat-8A Chi Po-lin Frames Show Chiayi Paddy Health at 0.7-Meter Resolution
OpinionOpinion: Wang Yi-chuan and Hsu Chiao-hsin Must Publish Drone Hearing Timetables
OpinionEditorial: Profit-Sharing at Memory Fabs Is Now a Taiwan Competitiveness Question
AIPhison Hosts Silicon-to-Steel Physical AI Roundtable With JMEMTEK and NeuroShine
TechnologyProArt P16 Lists 1 PFLOP FP4 On-Device AI With 128GB Unified Memory
TechnologyPassives Vendors Raise MLCC and Inductor Lists as OEMs Lock AI Power Budgets
Credit CardsFederal Bank Lists Netflix Ten-Percent Cashback for Registered Streamers
Credit CardsBank SinoPac Promotes Zero-Fee Mobile Bill Pay for Government Utility Statements
StocksWeighted Index Closes 49,313.44 After Bond Yield Spike Hits TSMC and MediaTek
BusinessDRAM Export Values Jump 286 Percent Year-on-Year in Ministry Trade Tables
Security
Politics
Sports
Entertainment
Health
Science
Opinion
AI
Technology
Credit Cards
Stocks
Business
Also worth your time
CVD-Grown 1H MoS₂ Bilayer Lands in Nature With NTNU-NCKU Research Team
A Taiwan-led team reported CVD-grown 1H-stacked bilayer MoS₂ with a direct band gap in Nature, with NSTC highlighting NTNU and NCKU work published after Oct. 2 agency briefings on valleytronic potential.
Formosat-8A Chi Po-lin Frames Show Chiayi Paddy Health at 0.7-Meter Resolution
Taiwan Space Agency imagery from the Formosat-8A Chi Po-lin satellite is resolving Chiayi paddy fields at 0.7-meter detail, giving agronomists a red-edge view of crop stress before the autumn harvest.
Hsu Chiao-hsin Takes Foreign Affairs and National Defense Gavel Beside Wang Yi-chuan
Legislative Yuan caucuses on Oct. 8 named 16 standing-committee conveners, handing KMT lawmaker Hsu Chiao-hsin the defense gavel alongside DPP convener Wang Yi-chuan while TPP lawmaker Chen Gau-tzu shares the judiciary panel.
Nikkei Reports U.S. and China Are Tracking KMT Leadership Split Before Local Elections
Nikkei Asia reports widening friction between KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun and Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen’s camp over defense spending and cross-strait messaging as local elections approach.