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Taipei Times
taipeitimes.com > News > editorials > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862561

Europe???s stock market boom is hiding a darker truth

20+ hour ago   (462+ words) European stock markets are booming, but that does not mean Europe is. Traditionally, a bet on European equities is a bet on growth everywhere else. The companies that make up the Stoxx Europe 600 — which has risen by about 12 percent this…...

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

Lighting the forest

20+ hour 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

20+ hour 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 > 2003862594

Stolen Matisse works tied to book thief in Brazil

20+ hour ago   (476+ words) Phone logs of a notorious art and rare-book thief in Brazil proved to be the key for police to recover eight stolen engravings by famed French painter Henri Matisse after they were pilfered from a library exhibition in Sao Paulo…...

台北時報
taipeitimes.com > News > world > archives > 08/16/2026 > 2003862591

S Korean tycoon appeals divorce ruling

20+ hour ago   (412+ words) A South Korean tycoon has appealed a court ruling ordering him to pay US$666 million to his former wife in the country’s largest-ever divorce settlement, his lawyers said yesterday. Chey Tae-won, 65, is the chairman of SK Group, which owns world-leading…...

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

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

20+ hour 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

20+ hour 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

20+ hour 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

20+ hour 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

20+ hour 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…...