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Taiwan's drone defense budget has become a central battleground between the ruling and opposition camps in the Legislative Yuan. (File photo, CNA)

Opinion | The Economist Says Taiwan's Democracy Is Being Held Hostage. Is The West Protecting It, Or Demanding Submission?

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine work laid the technical groundwork for the personalized mRNA cancer vaccine now sending its stock on a wild ride. (AP)

Moderna Stock Nearly Tripled On A Personalized Cancer Vaccine Then Gave Much Of It Back

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is drawing on Wall Street's money to lay down the AI industry's tracks faster than his rivals. (File photo, AP)

Opinion | How Jensen Huang Is Using Wall Street's Half A Trillion Dollars To Defend Nvidia's AI Empire

Chen Wen-shan, professor emeritus of geosciences at National Taiwan University, is widely recognized in Taiwan's geological community for his research on active faults. (File photo via YouTube)

Exclusive | Geologist Warns Taiwan Nuclear Plant 3 Sits 1km From Fault

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te held a closed-door meeting last month at the presidential residence with 11 of Taiwan's top business leaders, with electricity supply emerging as a central concern. (File photo, Ko Cheng-hui)

Behind The Scene | Power, Not Chips, Now Threatens Taiwan's AI Dominance

Chen Wen-shan, Honorary Professor of the Department of Geosciences at National Taiwan University. (Photo by Apple Chang)

Exclusive | Geologist Warns Taipei's Dormant Fault Risk Is Rising

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's approval rating is declining. (File photo, AP)

Japan PM Takaichi's Approval Crumbles as Ideology Trumps Inflation

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled its latest large language model, Kimi K3. (CNA)

Kimi K3 Release Shifts the US-China AI Contest From Power to Scale

Taiwan is home to manufacturing giant TSMC, yet it has struggled to build effective applications on top of its own sovereign large language model. (File photo, Ko Cheng-hui)

Opinion | Sovereign AI Is an Economic Battle Taiwan Cannot Sit Out

At DBS Bank in Singapore, every frontline customer service representative works alongside a dedicated AI Agent partner in real time. (File photo, CNA)

Opinion | The World Runs on Taiwan's Chips. But Taiwan Has No AI of Its Own

Japan's Takaichi Sanae cabinet is set to include a major talent development initiative in the 2026 Comprehensive Innovation Strategy. (File photo, AP)

Opinion | Japan's AI Anxiety: From Robot Pioneer to Being Skipped

Some 1,300 metric tons of Central Union Oil Corp. soybean salad oil were found to contain benzo[a]pyrene, a Group 1 carcinogen, at four times the legal limit, rocking Taiwan's food supply chain. Illustrative file photo. (CNA)

Why Taiwan's Toxic Oil Maker Always Passed Its Own Safety Tests

Even after Phison's market capitalization surpassed NT$100 billion, Chairman Pan Chien-cheng (潘健成) has continued to champion the company's work on the front lines. (Photo by Yan Lin-yu)

Exclusive | Taiwan's Memory Giant Phison Says AI's Real Barrier Is DRAM, Not GPUs

AI chip rising star Cerebras Systems debuted on May 14 at an IPO price of $185 per share, with its stock surging to a high of $386 on its first day of trading. (File photo, courtesy of Cerebras official website)

Opinion | How a 5-Person Startup Convinced TSMC to Build the World's Largest AI Chip

Academia Sinica Academician Chen Pei-jer, speaking in an interview with The Storm Media, said gene editing has formally ushered in a new clinical era of xenotransplantation. (Photo by Apple Chang))

Exclusive | Taiwan Could Lose Organ Transplant Independence to China Within a Decade, Top Scientist Warns

Former Executive Yuan Deputy Premier Shih Jun-ji argues that advanced chips produced in Taiwan have taken on a financial dimension, effectively becoming a 'commodity with embedded risk.' (File photo)

Exclusive | Taiwan's Semiconductor Ace: Why TSMC's Biggest Rival May Be Itself

In May 2026, Taiwan's stock market surged past 40,000 points. (CNA)

Exclusive | Taiwan Is the World's Hottest Stock Market. That's the Problem.

TSMC's stock performance has become deeply tied to the retirement savings of more than 10 million Taiwanese workers. (File photo, by Yan Lin-yu)

The TSMC Effect: How Taiwan’s Pension Funds Became Bound to a Single Tech Giant

As Taiwan's stock market surges, students find it hard to resist the allure of overnight wealth, driving a sharp rise in new brokerage account openings. (File photo, by Kuo Chin-wei)

Taiwan Stock Market Hits 40,000: Young Retail Investors Drive Record-Breaking Rally

Nvidia, a pure GPU supplier — often called a "shovel seller" — continues to benefit in the near term from the capital expenditure boom. (File photo by Ke Chenghui)

“AI Validation Quarter”: Big Tech Cloud Earnings Show Returns Are Finally Here