# 2025 in Taiwan

Events from the year 2025 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 114 according to the official Republic of China calendar.

## Incumbents

* President: Lai Ching-te
* Vice President: Hsiao Bi-khim
* Premier: Cho Jung-tai
* Vice Premier: Cheng Li-chun

## Events
### January

* 16 January – Huang Lin-kai becomes the first person to be executed in Taiwan since 2020 after having been convicted for the 2013 rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her mother.
* 21 January –
** A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Chiayi County, injuring 44 people.
** An officer of the Republic of China Air Force dies after being sucked into a fighter jet engine in Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Taichung.
* 23 January –
** The government announces plans to cull 120,000 green iguanas nationwide, citing their impact on the agricultural sector.
** President Lai signs into law a bill requiring ten justices to constitute a quorum at the Constitutional Court.
* 31 January – The government bans employees in the public sector and key infrastructure facilities from using the Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek, citing national security concerns.

### February

* 4 February – The Hsinchu District Court sentences nine people to up to ten years' imprisonment over the discovery of a cannabis-growing operation in Hsinchu County that becomes the largest such operation uncovered in Taiwan, with nearly 6,000 cannabis plants and related products valued at NT$2 billion (US$60.81 million) recovered.
* 5 February – A 73-year old man is arrested in Kaohsiung on suspicion of killing three women in a suspected serial murder.
* 13 February – 2025 Taichung Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion: Four people are killed in a gas explosion at a department store in Taichung.
* 15 February –
** An T-BE5A Brave Eagle training aircraft of the Republic of China Air Force crashes off the coast of Taitung. The pilot is rescued.
** Acting Taiwan People's Party chair Huang Kuo-chang is elected in an internal by-election to lead the party and fill out the unexpired term of his predecessor, Ko Wen-je, until 2026.
* 21–25 February – The Taipei Dome hosts Pool A of the World Baseball Classic 2025 Qualifiers.
* 22 February – Amid unprecedented overcrowding in emergency rooms, the Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine calls on the government to act.
* 25 February –
** TPP lawmaker Wu Chun-cheng resigns from the Legislative Yuan amid allegations of conflict of interest in supporting a bill seeking to address aging through industrial development.
** The Taiwan-Penghu No. 3 submarine communications cable linking Taiwan island and Penghu County is severed, prompting the detention of a Togolese-flagged vessel and its Chinese crew by Taiwanese authorities after they were spotted in the vicinity of the area were the cable was cut.
* 26 February –
** EVA Air imposes a ban on passengers using or charging power banks and spare lithium batteries on flights beginning on 1 March.
** The Disciplinary Court convicts former ambassador Michael Hsu of workplace sexual harassment when he was head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines from 2018 to 2023 and sentences him to an employment ban of three years and a fine of NT$500,000 (US$15,241).

### March

* 3 March – US President Donald Trump and TSMC's CEO announce a new $100 billion investment to build chip manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment requires approval by the Taiwanese government.
* 12 March – Chung Wen-chih absconds after being sentenced to 30 years and 5 months in prison for securities fraud, from which he was accused of profiting NT$400 million. He failed to report to the police and is now a wanted fugitive.

### Predicted and scheduled

* 17–30 May – 2025 Summer World Masters Games

## Holidays

Source:
* 1 January – New Year's Day and Republic Day
* 25 January – 2 February – Chinese New Year
* 28 February – Peace Memorial Day
* 5 April – Children's Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day
* 1 May – Labour Day
* 31 May – Dragon Boat Festival
* 6 October – Mid-Autumn Festival
* 10 October – National Day

## Deaths

* 7 January – Cheng Yu-cheng, 78, politician, member of the Legislative Yuan (1981–1987, 1990–1993, 2002–2005), heart attack.
* 8 January – Lin Cheng-fong, 75, politician, member of the Legislative Yuan (2005–2008) and mayor of Guishan City (1998–2005).
* 9 January – Lee Ching-tai, 82, Taiwanese-American physician and activist, president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (2006–2007).
* 14 January
** Chen Ching-Po, Taiwanese-Japanese professional golfer, 93, sepsis.
** Li Kuei-hsien, 87, poet.
* 16 January – Hsieh Shih-chien, 72, airline executive, president (since 2016) and chairman (since 2019) of China Airlines.
* 25 January – Huang Mao-zong, 81, judge, justice of the Judicial Yuan (2008–2016).
* 2 February – Barbie Hsu, 48, actress, pneumonia.
* 5 February – Cecilia Koo [zh], 104, philanthropist and centenarian.
* 21 February – Kuo-ch'ing Tu, 83, poet and translator.
* 14 March – Chang Chen-huan [zh], 65, actor (body discovered on this date)