On March 23, 2026, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang faced a thoroughly debated question on the Lex Fridman Podcast regarding when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arri......
ASE Technology Holding Co. broke ground on a new semiconductor testing facility in Kaohsiung's Renwu Industrial Park on Thursday, as the company accelerates capacity expansion to m......
ASE Chief Executive Tien Wu (吳田玉) stated that the global semiconductor industry has entered a crucial phase of transformation. As supply chain restructuring accelerates, ASE contin......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has posted record-breaking revenue figures for both March and the first quarter of 2026, driven by strong demand for advanced chips us......
On April 7, while global attention fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, Intel confirmed it would join Terafab — Elon Musk's bid to build a rival semiconductor ecosystem on American soil.......
Kuomintang（KMT）Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun(鄭麗文) met Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday morning in the first KMT–CCP leadership summit in ten year......
Taiwan's opposition party Kuomintang (KMT, 國民黨) Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) has launched her first mainland China visit in a decade, billing the trip a "peace journey" — but the deleg......
Kuomintang (KMT) politician Cheng Li‑wun (鄭麗文) has embarked on a high‑profile trip to mainland China. For someone whose loyalty to core KMT values has long been in doubt, the react......
The term "1992 Consensus" has dominated Taiwan's political discourse for more than three decades. Some describe it as the cornerstone of cross-strait peace; others dismiss it as a ......
The image of a historic Japanese farmhouse, priced lower than a used car and nestled in the serene countryside, has become a viral sensation. From the Wall Street Journal to CNBC, ......
For Taiwan's growing community of pet owners, a regulatory battle between pharmacists and veterinarians has become impossible to ignore — not least because their cats and dogs stan......
Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文), chair of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT, 中國國民黨), departed for China on April 7 on a six-day trip she has branded the "2026 Peace Journey," ......
Japan's Defense Ministry has announced a new recruitment target aimed at significantly increasing the share of female personnel in the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) by the mid-2030s, a......
Taiwan's defense special legislation has been deadlocked for months. The dispute started with a name. KMT legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) insisted the bill be called "Arms Procurem......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) led a delegation to mainland China and held a luncheon meeting with approximately 300 Taiwanese businesspeople at the Shanghai Dongjiao Sta......
The DPP's Taipei mayoral search has become a farce. When Puma Shen (沈伯洋) surfaced as a possible nominee, Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) — a former legislator freshly joined to the party — prais......
Edvard Moser, the Norwegian neuroscientist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has warned that the unchecked development of artificial intelligence poses a d......
Kuomintang (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) led a party delegation to mainland China, meeting with Jiangsu Province Communist Party Secretary Xin Changxing (信長星) at noon on Apri......
Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) arrived in the Marshall Islands on April 7 for a three-day visit as a special presidential envoy, following a similar trip to Tuvalu i......
Kuomintang (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 10. Dubbed the "2026 Journey of Peace" by the party, this upcoming summit arrive......
Less than two hours before his own ultimatum expired, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a two-week pause on military strikes against Iran — adding yet another "TACO" moment to ......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is leading a party delegation to China from April 7 to 12, after being formally invited by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee an......
Beijing made a major move on March 30, 2026, as state media announced that Xi Jinping (習近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, personally welcomed and invited Chen......
The world is already burning in two places. The Asia-Pacific does not need to become a third. Yet Taiwan's current political climate — marked by a government that conflates dialogu......
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale coordinated military strike against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran's senior leader......
On March 30, a senior Chinese official announced that President Xi Jinping (習近平) had formally invited Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) to lead a delegation to China. The hi......
In early April 2026, a high-stakes rescue operation deep inside Iranian territory unexpectedly ignited a wave of public debate on Chinese social media — not because of the audacity......
Around 11 a.m. on March 29, a serious mass-casualty attack struck Beijing, China, when a man drove a bulldozer back and forth through a crowded market, killing at least 13 people a......
In an exclusive telephone interview with Storm Media, Lee Tai-chuang (李大壯) — chairman of the China New Era Think Tank Foundation, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Confer......
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Kuan-ting (陳冠廷) took the stage at the "Maritime Defense Unmanned Trends Forum" on April 7 with a clear message: Taiwan must take ......
At a moment when China's private economy remains fragile, and business confidence is still recovering, a motorcycle brand founded by a rural dropout who once repaired bikes for a l......
When Taiwan's government announced its Agreement Regarding Trade (ART) with the United States, officials enthusiastically celebrated the pact as a diplomatic home run. However, doc......
A High-Stakes Diplomatic MissionKuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is set to lead a party delegation to mainland China on April 7, culminating in a meeting with Chinese Comm......
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has significantly intensified pressure on Taiwan, with Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) warning that Beijing has organized a so-called......
U.S. President Donald Trump's recent televised address claimed a decisive victory against Iran while failing to articulate any clear conditions for ending the brutal conflict. The ......
Foxconn has appointed Michael Chiang (蔣集恆) as its new rotating Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, for a one-year term. The appointment marks the third cycle of the c......
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a wide-ranging assessment of the global economy in his 2025 annual letter to shareholders, warning that geopolitical conflicts, technological ......
Japan's inheritance tax can turn even a large estate into a financial burden, especially when wealth is tied up in property. The reported case of late actress Miho Nakayama has ren......
Chile's Constitutional Court has unanimously rejected a legal challenge brought by seven agricultural export companies. The high-profile dispute centered on the devastating destruc......
Beijing has opened a high-level investigation into Ma Xingrui (馬興瑞), a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo and former party secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomou......
Taiwan's February trade agreement with the United States — struck under pressure from President Donald Trump's tariff policies — may involve significantly more capital flowing to A......
Japan's residential real estate market continues its sustained climb, with land prices in the Greater Tokyo Area marking their 23rd consecutive quarter of growth. The latest data f......
For years, a peculiar piece of food lore has circulated among Taiwanese internet users: that Coca-Cola simply tastes better at McDonald's in Taiwan than anywhere else on earth. Peo......
When most people hear "Flying Tigers," they picture American or Chinese pilots dogfighting Japanese aircraft in P-40 Warhawks, wresting air superiority over the China theater. Far ......
When China's People's Liberation Army conducted its "Joint Sword" exercises in 2025, senior Taiwanese national security officials disclosed something unusual: one drill component w......
Taiwan's benchmark stock index crossed the historic 30,000-point threshold in January, while daily trading volume has regularly exceeded approximately $26.7 billion. On the surface......
President Donald Trump has long treated politics as a highly publicized performance characterized by blunt declarative sentences and consistently raised stakes. He recently extende......
Facing an increasingly closed and personally authoritarian China, Taiwan has two clear imperatives, according to Yasheng Huang (黃亞生), a globally recognized authority on China and p......
Alongside the missiles and military strikes of the escalating conflict, a quieter financial battle is unfolding with potentially lasting global consequences. Iran recently announce......
When U.S. technology giant Meta announced its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese artificial intelligence startup Manus, Beijing swiftly intervened. The deal would have integrated wh......
