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A former Fox News employee sued the network Wednesday, alleging that the late Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes sexually abused her for years. Ailes allegedly made it clear that if she tried to speak out or stop the abuse, Luhn would experience “severe personal humiliation and career ruin,” according to the suit. Luhn says in the suit that in 2011 she sent a letter to Fox’s general counsel detailing Ailes’ abuse. The suit says the network withheld over 30% of the payment for taxes. The sexual abuse that she suffered while working at Fox News was some of the worst imaginable,” said Luhn’s attorney, Barbara Whiten Balliette, a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai LLP.

☆ A former Fox News staffer said Roger Ailes told her she was his 'sex slave' and took videos of the abuse to use as 'blackmail,' but the network would dismiss claims with 'boys will be boys,' lawsuit s
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Luhn filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging Fox News enabled and covered up the abuse. In a statement to Insider, Fox called the allegations against the network "meritless." The lawsuit named Fox News, Twenty-First Century Fox, and William Shine, a former Fox News executive who also had a brief stint in the Trump White House. The sexual abuse that she suffered while working at Fox News was some of the worst imaginable. "New York's Adult Survivors Act recognizes the lifelong trauma that sexual abuse victims can suffer.

☆ A laid-off Google employee says she went to Disneyland to 'eat her feelings' after being locked out of her company systems
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

TikToker Nicole Tsai says she went to Disneyland to 'eat her feelings' after being laid off from Google. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. The ex-employee, TikToker Nicole Tsai, said she was one of the 12,000 people laid off from the tech giant last Friday. According to her LinkedIn page, Tsai worked as a partner services program manager at Google in Irvine, California, since July 2021. She then decided to go to Disneyland, where she indulged in treats like churros, a teriyaki turkey leg, Rice Krispies, and a corn dog, snippets of the video posted to TikTok show.

☆ Taiwan’s president says war with China is ‘not an option’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Taipei, Taiwan on Dec. 27, 2022. Tensions between China and Taiwan have been rising in recent years. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told Pope Francis in a letter that war with China is "not an option" and said constructive interaction with Beijing, which claims the island as part of its territory, depends on respecting self-ruled Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war and have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars in trade and investment. A former Taiwanese vice president under Tsai, Chen Chien-jen, represented the island at this month's funeral of former Pope Benedict.

☆ Taiwan president tells pope war with China not an option
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has written to Pope Francis to say that war between Taiwan and China is not an option and only by respecting the Taiwanese people's insistence on sovereignty and freedom can there be healthy ties with Beijing. The Vatican is Chinese-claimed Taiwan's sole European diplomatic ally, and Taipei has watched with concern as Pope Francis has moved to improve relations with China. China staged war games near Taiwan last August, and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan has complained repeatedly that its exclusion from the WHO, due to Chinese pressure, has hampered efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Taiwan rejects China's sovereignty claims, saying that only the island's 23 million people can decide their future.

☆ Taiwan president thanks military in new year's message
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen thanked the armed forces for defending the island in her Lunar New Year message on Friday, saying the government had safeguarded peace in the face of China's military drills and pressure. In a short, recorded video message before Lunar New Year's Day on Sunday, the most important holiday in the Chinese-speaking world, Tsai said this year like last would be "full of challenges". "In the face of the Chinese Communists' military ships and aircraft frequently harassing Taiwan, or even carrying out exercises around the Taiwan Strait, the government firmly safeguards peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and region," she said. I want to thank the labours of our brothers and sisters in the military," Tsai continued. China's air force has regularly crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line, which had served as an unofficial barrier between the two, since the August drills, and has carried out other exercises near Taiwan.

☆ Taiwan VP new ruling party boss sets stage for presidential run
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Taiwan Vice President William Lai was elected as the new chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Sunday, setting the stage for him to run in presidential elections early next year. President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as party chairwoman in November after the DPP was trounced at local elections. Lai has not directly said whether he intends to run in the presidential vote but is widely expected to do so now he is DPP chairman. A former premier and mayor of the southern city of Tainan, Lai has been Tsai's vice president since 2020 following the DPP's landslide election win. The DPP won the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide by pledging to defend Taiwan against China and not submit to Beijing's threats.

☆ List of FTX Backers Expands to Include Kraft Group, Other Family Offices
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Andrew Scurria | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FTX raised equity capital before its collapse from Robert Kraft‘s Kraft Group and entertainment giant Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., among other newly-identified backers who now face the loss of their investments in the once-highflying exchange. The crypto firm’s chapter 11 administrators disclosed a new roster of its financial backers that listed affiliates of Kraft Group and entertainment giant Endeavor as holding common and preferred stock. FTX also disclosed that it raised capital from affiliates of investment offices including Daniel Och‘s Willoughby Capital LLC and Blue Pool Capital, a Hong-Kong office backed by Alibaba Group co-founder Joseph Tsai, according to the shareholder list, filed in bankruptcy court on Tuesday.

☆ Taiwan calls on Germany to help maintain 'regional order'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Germany on Tuesday to help maintain "regional order" during a meeting with senior German lawmakers who are visiting the island on a trip that Beijing has condemned. "We look forward to Taiwan, Germany and other democratic partners jointly maintaining the regional order and prosperity." Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of Germany's parliamentary defence committee and a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's junior coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), told Tsai that Germany and Taiwan are friends. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a wake up call for the whole world, Strack-Zimmermann said. China has expressed anger at the trip, with its foreign ministry on Monday alluding to Germany's World War Two past.

☆ Taiwanese satellites signal Asia’s distrust of Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The idea is to emulate the support Elon Musk’s SpaceX unit Starlink is providing Ukraine to help in its battle with Russia. Ordinarily reliant on U.S. technology for defence, Taipei has reasonable concerns about the Tesla boss’ relationship with Beijing, given the mainland market’s importance to the company. In addition to facilitating the sort of internet-enabled resistance Ukraine has given Russia, there are commercial applications, so it could be smart business. Japan, South Korea and Vietnam have similar concerns about China and about Musk, so there may be scope for a broader Asian system. That could leave Starlink, which Beijing won’t allow to be sold inside China, without much of a market in East Asia.

☆ A former SpaceX engineer who now runs a pizza robot company says he wants to solve problems on Earth – not Mars
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ex-SpaceX engineer who left to start a pizza robot company says he wants to solve problems on Earth. Benson Tsai told Bloomberg what's important for him is to "solve problems here" – not Mars. Benson Tsai left Elon Musk's rocket company and cofounded Stellar Pizza in May 2019 alongside two former colleagues, Brian Langone and James Wahawisan. But unlike his former boss who's often spoken about colonizing Mars, Tsai said he was more interested in matters closer to home. "Solving problems here on Earth is really important to me," he told Bloomberg.

☆ Taiwan exports fall for 4th month in December, decline seen extending into Q1
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Exports dropped 12.1% by value last month from a year earlier to $35.75 billion, the lowest in 20 months, the Ministry of Finance said on Saturday. That followed a 13.1% drop in November, and was slightly better than Reuters poll forecast for a 13.3% contraction. Taiwan's total exports of electronics components in December fell 1.4% to $16.04 billion, with semiconductor exports up 0.8% from a year earlier. At $14.28 billion in December, Taiwan's exports to China, the island's largest trading partner, were down 16.4% from a year ago, after suffering a 20.9% drop in November. December's exports to the United States were down 2.6%, compared with an 11.3% contraction recorded the previous month.

☆ Taiwan offers China help again to deal with COVID surge
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/StaffTAIPEI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan has again offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases but Chinese authorities have not yet responded, official Taiwan media reported late on Thursday. Victor Wang, Head of Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Centre, told the official Central News Agency it sent an email to Chinese authorities this week and asked how Taiwan could help with the surge of cases in China. Rising cases in China has sparked concerns from the World Health Organisation that Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths. Wang said Taiwan has also sent an email to China in early December to "remind" authorities there about an community outbreak and severe cases among children. Taiwan and China have repeatedly sparred over their respective measures to control the spread of COVID.

☆ Taiwan's 'SEALs' would be on the frontline of a war with China. Here's how they'd try to hold off an invasion.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Taiwan's special-ops units, like the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, would be on the frontline. Taiwan's special-operations units, especially the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion — the country's version of the US Navy SEALs — would be on the frontlines of that fight. Although a maritime unit with an intense focus on littoral and maritime special operations, the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion is part of the Taiwanese army. Like many of the world's special-operations units, the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion was stood up with help from US commandos. Members of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion during a demonstration in September 2016.

☆ Taiwan president offers China help to deal with COVID surge
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Jeanny Kao | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

TAIPEI, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Sunday offered to provide China with "necessary assistance" to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases, but said Chinese military activities near the island were not beneficial to peace and stability. Taiwan and China have repeatedly sparred over their respective measures to control the spread of COVID. China had criticised Taiwan for ineffective management of the pandemic after soaring domestic infections last year, while Taiwan has accused China of a lack of transparency and trying to interfere with vaccine supplies to Taiwan, which Beijing has denied. "But I want to remind people - the military activities of the People's Liberation Army near Taiwan are not at all conducive to cross-strait relations nor regional peace and stability," she added. China staged war games near the island in August after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei, and those military activities have continued.

☆ Chinese state media seek to reassure public over COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Martin Quin Pollard | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

WUHAN, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese took to the streets to mark the New Year as authorities and state media sought to reassure the public that the COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country was under control and nearing its peak. China reported one new COVID-19 death in the mainland for Dec. 31, the same as a day earlier, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday. State media in the city of Guangzhou in southeastern China said on Sunday that daily cases peaked at around 60,000 recently, and now stand at around 19,000. On Sunday, Australia and Canada joined the United States and others in requiring travellers from China to provide negative COVID-19 tests when they arrive. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered on Sunday to provide China with "necessary assistance" to help it deal with the surge in COVID-19 cases.

☆ Taiwan to plough $12 bln in excess tax revenue back into economy in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Taiwan will plough an extra T$380 billion ($12.43 billion) in tax revenue back into the economy in 2023 to help protect the island from global economic shocks, including subsidies for electricity prices, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday. Tsai, in a statement from her office following a meeting of senior economic officials, said the government must make preparations in advance for the "more severe challenges" the global economy faces in 2023. For 2023, it projected GDP would grow 2.53%, compared with an earlier forecast of 2.9%. The economy grew 4.01% in the third quarter from a year earlier. ($1 = 30.5770 Taiwan dollars)Reporting by Jeanny Kao; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kim CoghillOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Taiwan president's special envoy to attend late Pope's funeral
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TAIPEI, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will send a special envoy to attend this week's funeral of former Pope Benedict, with her office saying it is a demonstration of the "deep friendship" between Taiwan and the Vatican, which has been courting China. The Vatican is Chinese-claimed Taiwan's sole European diplomatic ally, and Taipei has watched with concern as Pope Francis has moved to improve relations with China. In a statement late on Saturday, Taiwan's presidential office said Tsai has appointed former Vice President Chen Chien-jen, a devout Catholic, as her special envoy to the funeral "based on the deep friendship between our country and the Vatican". Chen went to the Vatican three times while in office, in 2016, 2018 and 2019, including attending the canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa. In September, while visiting the Vatican for the beatification of former Pope John Paul I, also as Tsai's envoy, Chen met Pope Francis and asked him to "pray for Taiwan".

☆ China slams Taiwan's 'cannon fodder' conscription decision
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING, Dec 28 (Reuters) - China's government criticised Taiwan on Wednesday for seeking to use the Taiwanese people as "cannon fodder" by extending compulsory military service from four months to one year starting in 2024. Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen announced the extension to compulsory military service on Tuesday, citing the rising threat that the island faces from its giant neighbour China. China considers democratically-governed Taiwan its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Responding to a question on Taiwan's decision to lengthen the period of miltary service, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that "struggling for the great task of achieving national reunification is immeasurably significant, dying for Taiwan independence separatist activities is completely worthless". "We believe Taiwan compatriots are highly principled, they will not be put up as cannon fodder by Taiwan independence separatist forces," Wang told a regular news conference.

☆ Taiwan to Extend Mandatory Military Service
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Joyu Wang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taiwan has decided to extend mandatory military service for male citizens, a one-time political taboo that morphed into an imperative in the face of growing Chinese aggression and intensifying competition between Washington and Beijing. Conscription will increase to a full year from the current four months starting in 2024, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday.

☆ Taiwan to extend military conscription to one year, citing threat from China
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months starting in 2024 due to the rising threat the democratically governed island faces from its giant neighbor China, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday. Tsai, speaking after a national security council meeting of senior security officials, said Taiwan wanted peace but needed to be able to defend itself. “Taiwan wants to tell the world that between democracy and dictatorship, we firmly believe in democracy. China also staged war games near Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Reuters has reported that military training in Taiwan, particularly for conscripts and reservists, had deteriorated.

☆ Taiwan to Extend Mandatory Military Service in Face of Chinese Pressure
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Joyu Wang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said, ‘Peace depends on national defense, and national defense depends on the whole population.’TAIPEI—Taiwan will extend mandatory military service for male citizens, a one-time political taboo that morphed into an imperative in the face of growing Chinese aggression and intensifying competition between Washington and Beijing. Conscription will increase from the current four months to a full year starting in 2024, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said at a press conference in Taipei on Tuesday.

☆ Taiwan to extend compulsory military service on China threat - government source
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

TAIPEI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Taiwan will announce on Tuesday a plan to extend compulsory military service to one year from the current four months, according to a senior government official, as the island deals with rising Chinese military pressure. "China's various unilateral behaviours have become a major concern for regional security," said the person, who took part in the high-level security discussion. The official Central News Agency, citing government and ruling party sources familiar with the matter, first reported late on Monday that her government would on Tuesday announce the plan to extend compulsory military service. read moreChina also staged war games near Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China has stepped up its diplomatic, military and economic pressure in recent years on the self-governed island to accept Beijing's rule.

☆ Taiwan to extend compulsory military service on China threat -government source
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Taiwan to extend compulsory military service, official says, as China shows air power
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Soldiers regroup after an amphibious landing drill during the Han Kuang military exercise — which simulates China's People's Liberation Army invading the island — on July 28, 2022 in Pingtung, Taiwan. A plan to extend compulsory military service in Taiwan to one year from the current four months will be announced on Tuesday, a senior government official said, as the island deals with rising Chinese military pressure. Tsai's security team, including high-level officials from the defense ministry and the National Security Council, has been reviewing Taiwan's military system since 2020 amid increasing threats from China, according to the official. China also staged war games near Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "China's various unilateral behaviors have become a major concern for regional security," said the official, who took part in the high-level security discussion and declined to be named.

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