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Millions across Taiwan now find their hearts racing to the rhythm of red and green numbers flickering across stock-trading app screens. (CNA)

Taiwan's Stock Market Euphoria Is Built on Quicksand

Chen Pei-chi (陳佩琪), wife of former Taiwan People's Party chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), traveled to mainland China in July and August 2026 with her son. During the trip, she shared on Facebook that she used her 35 years of experience as a pediatrician to provi

A Doctor Helps a Child, and Taiwan Argues Over Her Politics

Whether coordinated U.S.-Japan intervention in the yen can produce lasting results remains deeply in doubt. (Photo / Pexels)

Washington and Tokyo Are Losing the Battle to Save the Yen

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed an amendment to Civil Code Article 1223 on July 28, removing the mandatory inheritance share reserved for siblings. At a press conference following the vote, Taiwan Will Association Chairperson Liu Wei-de (center) called t

Taiwan Rewrites Inheritance Law but Leaves the Harder Work Undone

China's gray-zone harassment has intensified in recent years. AIT released a rare photograph showing Taiwan's Coast Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard sailing in formation. (Source: AIT Facebook)

China's Gray-Zone Squeeze on Taiwan Isn't Cause for Celebration

Taiwanese workers are industrious — but the fruits of their labor increasingly flow to the asset-owning class. Pictured: manufacturers and processors at work in Datong District, Taipei. (CNA)

Taiwan's Real Estate Trap: Public Savings Become Private Profit

The world has largely accepted Trump's latest tariff round without protest — but Taiwan should ask whether its apparent gain is a short-term blessing with long-term costs. (File photo, AP)

Taiwan's Lower Rate Masks the Hollow Logic of Trump's New Tariffs

The short video "You Bu De You" prompted the Criminal Investigation Bureau to pay a visit to its creators. (Wind Direction 123 Facebook page)

Silencing Satire Won't Solve Taiwan's Carcinogenic Oil Crisis

China's export-dependent economy is fraught with risk — an imbalance that may prove unsustainable. Aerial view of a container terminal in Shanghai. (File photo, AP)

China Has Written Its Own Prescription. It Cannot Fill It.

The Executive Yuan has approved the low-benefit, high-cost HSR extension to Yilan — throwing NT$352.1 billion into what critics say is little more than a political gesture. (File photo, Ko Cheng-hui)

Taiwan's NT$352 Billion HSR Gamble: Electoral Prop or Future Backbone?

President Lai Ching-te visited the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to inspect drone development, urging the Legislative Yuan to support the Executive Yuan's proposed drone legislation. (Photo: Office of the President)

Taiwan's 'National Team' Is Failing Its Military—Not the Legislature

This year's Han Kuang military exercise marked the first time Taiwan has drilled an internet blackout, with mobile network slowdowns planned for northern and central counties — but southern counties were granted an exemption. (CNA)

Taiwan's Han Kuang Drill Exempts Southern Counties From Internet Blackout — to Protect Stock Traders

The Lai administration has drawn sharp criticism for significantly relaxing pesticide residue standards on imported apples. (Photo／Jesse Millan@flickr)

Taiwan's Pesticide Rollback Has No Health Rationale—Only Trade Logic

The Control Yuan has released its investigation findings on the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium, formally censuring the former Hsinchu City Government under Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) for a series of serious failures spanning procurement, construction superv

Hsinchu Stadium Scandal Gets a Formal Rebuke—but No Real Reckoning

The yen has been extraordinarily weak, with markets watching and waiting for the Bank of Japan to intervene.

Japan's Yen Crisis Goes Deeper Than the Bank of Japan Can Fix

Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) appeared before the Legislative Yuan to answer questions on the Chung Lien edible oil scandal. When opposition lawmakers demanded an apology, Cho fired back: "Is this a special report session or a special apology session?" (Phot

Tainted Cooking Oil, Tainted Government: The DPP Fails Its Own 2014 Test

Taiwan's food safety crises keep piling up — before the contaminated oil scandal had been resolved, reports emerged that the Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering relaxing pesticide residue limits for fipronil on apples, prompting critics to say t

Taiwan's Food Safety Crisis Is Real and Renaming It Won't Help

Taiwan's declining birthrate grows ever more severe. Young people have moved from being unable to afford children to not daring to imagine a future — a problem no government "subsidy package" can solve. (Photo by Yeh Hsin-lu)

Taiwan's Birth Rate Crisis: When Confidence Matters More Than Cash

Falling birth rates are a global phenomenon, but Taiwan's demographic collapse has reached the level of a 'near-death nation.' (File photo, AP)

Taiwan's Demographic Collapse Puts Its Defense Strategy In Question

Falling birthrates are a global phenomenon, but Taiwan's demographic crisis has reached a level that qualifies it as a 'near-death nation.' (File photo, AP)

Taiwan Is Dying. No Slogan Can Save It.

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