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Tainan District Court on Thursday sentenced the Chinese captain of a Togolese-registered freighter that snapped an undersea cable linking Taiwan and Penghu in February to three years in prison for intentionally damaging the cable.

Taipei has been named the 2025 Muslim Women-friendly City Destination of the Year by CrescentRating at its 2025 Halal in Travel Awards held Thursday in Singapore.

The Taiwan High Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by former Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and three others, ordering their continued detention incommunicado for another two months in connection with an ongoing trial over alleged corruption during Ko's tenure in charge of Taiwan's capital from 2014 to 2022.

A tropical depression is expected to make landfall in Hualien County at around 8 p.m. Thursday, bringing rain to areas across Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.

More than 110 individuals from Taiwan's journalism industry and academic circles have launched a campaign calling on the government to prevent online platforms from exploiting the local media sector.

The Control Yuan has passed a motion to impeach former Workforce Development Agency (WDA) head Tsai Meng-liang (蔡孟良) and former WDA New Taipei branch director Hsieh Yi-jung (謝宜容) over allegations that workplace bullying led to a subordinate's suicide.

Rescuers are continuing to search for four crew members from a burning Taiwan-owned container ship that caught fire off southern India on Monday, officials said Wednesday.

A convicted drug smuggler who fled to Thailand was repatriated to Taiwan on Thursday and escorted to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office, according to the Ministry of Justice's (MOJ) Investigation Bureau.

A tropical storm and a tropical depression near Taiwan will bring unstable weather, with the south and east seeing the heaviest rain, independent meteorologist Wu Der-rong (吳德榮) said Thursday.

The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Thursday are as follows: