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By 500 Global Monday, 03 Oct 2022 5:45 PM MYT 20 early-stage tech startups from Taiwan and across the world will take the stage to present their businesses to a curated global audience. TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 3 October 2022 – 500 Global, a leading multi-stage venture capital …

By Sean Lin, CNA staff writer From battlegrounds in Ukraine to Taiwan’s offshore military outposts, drones have become synonymous with 21st century warfare, and their stealth, maneuverability, and relatively low cost suggest they could play an even greater role in the future. Ukraine has demonstrated their effectiveness in asymmetric warfare …

Amid simmering tensions across the Taiwan Strait, China has rolled out a People’s Liberation Army recruitment program with relaxed age limits and prioritizing recruiting university students with STEM skills. What Happened: In the second leg of this year’s recruitment program due to start this month, the age limit for postgraduate …

(MENAFN- Media OutReach Limited) TAIPEI, TAIWAN  – Media OutReach  – 14 October 2021 – Venture capital firm 500 Global (formerly 500 Startups), is holding the inaugural digital demo day of 500 Global Accelerator Taiwan with TTA. On October 22, 20 startups in the first batch will present their solutions in a range of sectors, …

The US State Department has cleared the potential sale of four “weapons-ready” aerial drones to Taiwan. Key points: The $US600 million ($833 million) deal would be the first such sale since the Trump administration loosened US policy on the export of sophisticated and closely guarded drone technology. The move is …

Administration proposes sale of more sophisticated weaponry to the self-ruled island as China ratchets up pressure. The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan as Beijing intensifies pressure on the democratic island it claims as its own. Officials told Congress on Tuesday that …

Key point: Taipei is looking for new technologies and weapons to deter Beijing, and that includes drones. China already has its own attack drones, so Taiwan might as well get its own too. Taiwan reportedly has solved a problem that has prevented the island country from developing its own medium-altitude attack …

Terra Drone Corporation has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed jointly with Unifly. The test run of the UTM was conducted at Fukushima Robot Test Field in Japan in the presence of more than a dozen officials from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, …

TAIPEI — Taiwan is widening its crackdown on government procurement of Chinese technology to servers, cloud computing and other services and equipment, which is expected to include Alibaba Group Holding, Huawei Technologies, Lenovo Group and Xiaomi, citing security risks. The Nikkei Asian Review in January first reported that Taiwan was drafting a …