Taiwanese #women are tough and resilient. Looking forward to boxer Lin Yu-ting win another medal tonight. It will be the third women’s boxing medal for Taiwan in the #Paris2024Olympics. You go, girl! 💪❤️

It’s 3:30 a.m. here in Taiwan, but about two thousand are still awake at New Taipei City Hall, according to the city government, watching the Olympic boxing livestream as Taiwanese athlete Lin Yu-ting goes head-to-head with her Polish rival in the 57kg final for the gold medal

BREAKING Lin Yu-ting wins Taiwan’s second gold medal at the Paris Olympics! 🏅️The presenter on Taiwanese sports broadcaster ELTA said: “Beat magic with boxing! See J.K. Rowling, you shouldn’t bully our daughter of Taiwan!” #台灣的女兒

#Gold for Lin Yu Ting! 🥊 The #gold medal goes to Chinese Taipei in boxing women's 57kg. #Boxing | #Paris2024 | #Samsung | #TogetherforTomorrow

.國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 sent three F-16BMs to accompany returning Olympians back to Taiwan, including Lin Yu-ting who won women’s featherweight boxing gold. The fighter jets fired celebratory flares to honour their contributions and welcome them home.

Great scoop by Demetri! I was trying to chase down why 林佳龍 Lin Chia-lung wasn’t in town this wk as he wasn’t present at Ketalagan Forum. But TW official refused to reveal. BTW Lin also wasn’t in TW for more than a wk end of July. I doorstopped him early Aug but he refused to answer.

On the eve of Journalist Day and following two years since the official closure of Apple Daily Taiwan, 1000 former employees (including myself) gathered for dinner. Here’s to an Apple.🍎

BREAKING: 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼’s Mirage 2000 (tail no. 2047) crashed off the coast of Hsinchu at 2035hrs tonight, fortunately the pilot successfully ejected in time. President 賴清德Lai Ching-te ordered full-scale rescue efforts, and the pilot was safely rescued at 22:22, otw to the hospital.

TW Coast Guard found a PRC National offshore near Taipei Harbour at 6:30am today, on a rubber boat. The 31yo claimed he suffers debt, left to start a new life in TW. This raises national security concern as a similar case in June, when a PRC man drove a speedboat up Tamsui River.