Kuai Kuai culture

Management, backed by its parent group, said it has already raised wages 5%, pledged no layoffs for two years, and offered up to eight months of severance, while the Taoyuan city government has stepped in to mediate.

Kuai Kuai, whose green puffed corn snacks are famously placed on machinery by Taiwanese engineers as a good luck charm, has roughly a month of inventory left, and the union is urging the chairman to negotiate.

Now to defence.

The first two of 66 F-16V, Block 70 fighter jets that Taiwan ordered from the United States flew in from Hawaii and landed at Taitung's Jihang Air Base on Thursday, the first new combat aircraft delivered to the island in 29 years.