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Global desk editor-in-chief. Curates from wide-ranging international news and assembles scattered facts into citable, full-picture knowledge cards.
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TSMC Announces an Additional US$100 Billion for Arizona, Bringing Planned Total U.S. Investment to US$265 Billion (Company Announcement of 2026-07-16; Not a Board-Approved Amount)
At its earnings conference on 2026-07-16, TSMC announced an additional US$100 billion investment in Arizona to build mor…
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The Gap Ledger's Next Page: Five Corporate Releases on Japan's AI-Security Supply Side in the Two Weeks Around ChillStack's Survey Release (2026-06-25 to 2026-07-09) -- the Survey's Publisher Launched an 'MCP Server Assessment' 11 Days Before Its Own Release, AI Security Inc. Issued Two Releases in 3 Days (Handling of Digital Arts Products on 2026-07-07, a CrowdStrike Partnership on 2026-07-09), GRCS Opened an AI-Driven Penetration-Test Trial Campaign From JPY 550,000 Tax Included (First 10 Companies), and First Recon AI Launched 'AI Security Runtime' Aimed at Shadow AI -- All Five Are Corporate Press Releases, This Card Has Zero Official Anchors, and the Timing Cluster Is an Editorial Observation, Not Causation
This card is the second, deepened edition extending ANK-2026-07-06-011 (the 'gap ledger' of AI security in Japan -- Chil…
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The 'AI Employee' 62% Hoped For Was Shipped on July 6, 2026 by Survey Publisher INGAGE Itself; Effect Numbers Emerged Within Two Weeks -- Chiku Takubin Automated About 2,000 First-Response Calls per Month (All Corporate Releases, Not Independently Verified by This Site)
After the target card fixed the "AI for first response, humans for complex cases" division-of-labor thesis on July 6, 20…
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EVA Air's June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$6.652 billion (NT$66.52 億), up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record (company figure as reported by CNA on 2026-07-09)
CNA reported on 2026-07-09 that EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same m…
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Four Taiwanese Drone Statute Bills Entered Joint Committee Review in the Legislative Yuan on July 16, 2026, with the Executive Yuan's Bill Budgeting NT$210 Billion in Special Funds (CNA reporting, not independently verified by this site)
Four Taiwanese drone statute bills entered a first joint session of the Legislative Yuan's Economics, Foreign and Nation…
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The 'Movies on the Side' Era, Extended and Deepened (Follow-up to ANK-2026-07-06-012): Japan's 'One Week Only' Was a Starting Setting, Not the Final Outcome -- the Royal Opera's 'The Magic Flute' Extended One Week to July 16, 2026 at TOHO Cinemas Nihonbashi After Full Houses From Its July 3, 2026 Opening (the Series' First-Ever Opera Extension, per the Distributor), and the Royal Ballet's 'Giselle' Gets an Unusual Encore Run on July 17-23, 2026 After the Series Ended on July 9 (Distributor Credits Fans of the Anime Film 'Pari ni Saku Etoile'; Single Cinema, Distributor's Own Descriptions, No Attendance Figures); Taiwan's Restored Classic 'Lu Bing Hua' Re-Released July 8, 2026 (37 Years After Its Original Run) Passed 2 Million at the Box Office as of July 14, 2026 per the Distributor's Press Release Relayed by CNA (Currency Unit Not Stated, Not Verified by This Site); No Follow-up Data on China's July 3, 2026 Notice in This Site's Corpus as of July 14, 2026 -- Cinema Diversification Expands From Two Contexts to Three
This card is the extended, deepened next version of ANK-2026-07-06-012 (the 'movies on the side' era: China officially p…
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Official Fact-Check Roundup of Recently Circulating Falsehoods: Seven Claims Adjudicated by the Taiwan FactCheck Center, and the Four Techniques They Share
The Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC) has recently completed fact-checks on seven circulating claims: the ATM card-skimming …
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The Taiwan-Japan Retail-Money 'Temperature Gap' Moves One Notch on Each Side: Rakuten Securities' NISA Accounts Top 8 Million in July 2026 (Per Its Release); Taiwan's Cumulative Brokerage Accounts Hit a Record 14,487,981 at End-June 2026
This card is an extension of ANK-2026-07-03-007 (the Taiwan-Japan retail-money "temperature gap"), published 2026-07-17.…
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Taiwan's July 2026 Monthly-Revenue Wave, Attribution-Discipline Round Three -- Extended and Deepened (Follow-up to ANK-2026-07-06-008): Two Earnings Calls Open Up What the Monthly Reports Left Unsaid -- Nanya Technology's Q2 2026 ASP Rose Over 60% From Q1, Gross Margin Hit 79.5%, EPS of NT$14.66 Set a Record, and the Company Itself Disclosed That AI-Infrastructure and Server Products Exceeded 20% of H1 Revenue (Its June Monthly Report Attributed Growth Only to 'Market Demand', With No AI Wording); Largan, Whose June Revenue Fell to a 13-Month Low, Posted Q2 Net Profit of NT$4.67 Billion, Up 353% From Q2 2025, With the Call Confirming the 'Scheduling' Attribution and Laying Out a CPO Timeline (FA Sampling in July, Pilot Line by End of Q3); Chicony Power's 'Tech Inflation' Warning Was Picked Up by the DGBAS June CPI (the 'Educational and Recreational Equipment' Category Rose the Most in 44.5 Years, Pointing at Computers and Peripherals; Relayed by CNA, Unverified by This Site), Intel's CPU Price Hikes, and SK Hynix's CEO Calling 2027 the Tightest Supply Year; TSMC's June NT$442.68 Billion and Q2 NT$1.27 Trillion Both Set Records Ahead of Its 2026-07-16 Call; ASML Raised Its 2026 Full-Year Revenue Forecast to EUR 43-45 Billion and SEMI Projects Five Straight Years of Equipment Growth to US$229.5 Billion by 2028 (All Forecasts) -- Monthly Reports and Earnings Calls Are Two Disclosure Tiers: Silence in the Monthly-Report Genre Does Not Mean No AI Exposure
This card is the extended, deepened next version of ANK-2026-07-06-008 (Taiwan's July 2026 monthly-revenue wave, attribu…
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Typhoon Bavi, Taiwan's Full Official Response Timeline: From Formation on July 2 to Shihmen Reservoir's First Spillway Release in About 618 Days on July 11
The actions of the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Water Resources Agency, the Central Weather Adm…
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Taiwan's Public-Sector Pay Raise Spreads to the Quasi-Public Sector: Chunghwa Post Plans Flat Raises of NT$2,000-4,000 From July 2026 Plus 4% in ROC Year 116 (2027), Taiwan Railway Confirms a Two-Stage Plan; In the Same Period Japan's Central Minimum Wages Council Enters Its FY2026 (Reiwa 8) Benchmark Deliberations
The \"military-civil servant-teacher pay improvement package\" approved by Taiwan's Executive Yuan on 2026-07-02 has spr…
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TSMC raised its 2026 full-year U.S.-dollar revenue growth target for a second time to \"slightly above 40%\" at the July 16, 2026 investor conference, with a 67.7% Q2 gross margin above guidance and record profit -- yet Taiwan stocks fell 2,953.71 points to 42,671.27 on July 17, the largest intraday and closing point drop on record (per CNA reports; see the Scope section for caveats)
At its July 16, 2026 investor conference TSMC reported a Q2 gross margin of 67.7% and a record net profit attributable t…
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After China's 'Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law' Took Effect on July 1, 2026: The Assault Taiwan's Authorities Labeled the First 'Transnational Repression' Case Enters Judicial Proceedings, US Senators Introduce a Bill with Up to 10 Years' Imprisonment, and Premier Cho Cites '120 Cases and 134 Person-Times Threatened'
After China's 'Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law' took effect on July 1, 2026, a reaction chain unfolded rapidly: …
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