Taiwan president says to scrutinise electricity management after outages, East Asia News & Top Stories


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TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday (May 18) to look into the tech powerhouse's electricity management after two major blackouts hit homes and businesses in less than a week, triggering criticism of the government's power policy. Taiwan, which hosts major chipmakers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, imposed power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure at a power plant, in the second such outage in a week. In a live broadcast online, Ms Tsai offered her apology for the two outages and promised to reexamine the island's...