The Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) are criticizing each other for failing to reach a consensus on plans for a joint opposition ticket for January's presidential election.

Changhua County Magistrate Wang Hui-mei is urging the central government to strengthen its management of dairy imports. The call comes as the government is set to open the local market to imported New Zealand dairy products.

Taiwan's total exports rose by 3.4% to US$38.811 billion in the month of September, marking the first rise in monthly exports following 12 consecutive months of declines.

The head of Taiwan's statistics bureau, the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) does not believe that the Palestine-Israel war will have much of an effect on international commodity prices, but he cautioned that crude oil prices could be pushed higher and fuel inflation.

Taiwan's two opposition parties, the KMT and the TPP, could be closer to agreeing on collaboration terms for the 2024 general elections.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered Taiwan's 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast by 1.3 percentage points from its April estimate to 0.8%.

President Tsai Ing-wen expressed a desire for "peaceful coexistence" with Beijing, even as she emphasised her administration's achievements and highlighted a call for dialogue between Taiwan and China.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has begun an investigation into four Taiwanese companies which were accused in a Bloomberg report of helping China's Huawei build semiconductor plants.

Taiwan People's Party (TPP) presidential nominee, Ko Wen-je, has reiterated that his party and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party should use polling to determine who runs as presidential and vice presidential candidates as part of a joint campaign.