Kevin Warsh chairs his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week under conditions that would test any central banker — and that will test him in ways his predecessor ne......
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has become the first sitting foreign defense minister sanctioned in the history of Chinese diplomacy. The move is more than an esc......
The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham) released the 31st edition of its annual Taiwan White Paper on June 16, marking the chamber's 75th anniversary at a moment of his......
Debutants Cabo Verde produced one of the early surprises of the 2026 World Cup on Monday, holding European champions Spain to a 0-0 draw in their Group H opener at Mercedes-Benz St......
A coordinated law enforcement and private-sector operation has brought down one of the most prolific cybercrime networks in recent memory. The FBI, working alongside Google and Lum......
When Jacob Langenkamp sat down with The Storm Media in Taipei on June 10, he came with a single question prepared — and it wasn't about price charts or crypto markets. It was about......
When Conner Brown made his case for Bitcoin in Taipei, he did not begin with price charts. He began with 1949."A big part of why Taiwan was able to survive was the gold reserves," ......
A sweeping cybersecurity survey of Japan's Nikkei 225 companies has exposed a widespread credential leak crisis among the country's largest corporations. Of 224 firms surveyed, 217......
For decades, the question of whether the United States would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan against a People's Liberation Army assault has been one of Asia's most fiercely c......
A four-month conflict that has killed thousands and severed one-fifth of global energy transit came to a turning point in the early hours of Monday, June 15, when US Presiden......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported on the morning of June 10 that six People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessels and ten Chinese government ships remained active in waters ......
An awards ceremony for SAKE COMPETITION 2026 — widely regarded as the world's most authoritative evaluation of commercially available Japanese sake — was held on June 10 at Takanaw......
Japanese actress Runa Nushimo, who made her acting debut in Taiwan before returning to Japan in 2024, appeared as a co-lead in the short film shady at the Short Short Film Festival......
Chris Miller, author of Chip War and professor of international history at Tufts University's Fletcher School, has a pointed warning for policymakers on both sides of the Pacific: ......
An Apache crash in the Strait of Hormuz has put a number on a brutal reality — U.S. air power is hemorrhaging assets at a rate not seen since Vietnam, and the bill is already $29 b......
Beijing's five-day enforcement operation inspected 198 vessels and mapped the seabed east of Taiwan — then state media declared the waters China's new "coastal sea."
China's mari......
When Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) sat down for lunch with a Washington defense analyst at Harvard University earlier this month, the meeting offered a rare window into ......
Taiwan shipped 139,000 drones in the first three months of 2026, more than it exported in all of the previous year. Most were destined for Ukraine, routed through Poland and the Cz......
For decades, the arrival of June in China meant one thing above all else: gaokao season. Social media would flood with exam tips, parental anxiety, and breathless coverage of top s......
On the streets of Shenzhen, ride-hailing cars inch through peak-hour traffic while drivers stare at their phones, waiting for orders worth only a few yuan. On May 25, the Shenzhen ......
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force publicly revealed a previously undisclosed long-range hypersonic strike capability on June 7 during the country's largest annual live-fire exercis......
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. announced at their Tokyo summit on May 28 that the two countries would begin for......
Experts from Ukraine, Japan, and the United States convened in Taipei to stress that Taiwan's near-total dependence on imported energy makes its power grid a primary strategic targ......
When the New York Times screened a video interview with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) at its annual DealBook Summit last December, few expected the fallout to land on a jou......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivered a pre-recorded video address Thursday to the inaugural Shinzo Abe and Modern Japan International Research Forum in Tokyo, paying tribute to ......
Apple's annual developer conference this week served as more than a software showcase — it was the clearest signal yet of how the company plans to make money from artificial intell......
Japan's Ministry of Justice issued administrative guidelines in 2011 covering everything from hair length to hormone therapy for transgender inmates. Fifteen years on, the framewor......
A Buddhist art museum themed around the works of Xia Jingshan (夏荊山) is set to be built on a 7,000-ping (23,140 square meters) surface-rights development site at the Tainan Arsenal,......
On June 1, China's coast guard dispatched a two-vessel formation — the Baitashan (hull number 2304) and the Daishan (hull number 2502) — to conduct what Beijing described as "law e......
With Taiwan's hot and humid summer now fully underway, many households are dealing with a familiar seasonal nuisance: ant invasions. Whether it's the kitchen counter, the dining ta......
AI Diffusion, Not Just Chips, Is the Real ContestThe closing of COMPUTEX 2026 barely gave Taipei time to catch its breath. The day after the global tech showcase wrapped up — drawi......
While Taiwan basks in the economic glow of the global AI boom, The Economist has published a sobering account of the risks lurking beneath the headline numbers. Some of its specifi......
A troupe of Chinese humanoid robots wowed American television audiences this week — and the company behind them may soon be wowing investors on the Shanghai stock exchange.Eight ro......
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released preliminary results of the 2025 national census on May 29, showing the country's total population has fallen to 123......
In the span of a single month, Japan deployed its largest-ever currency intervention — and ended up with almost nothing to show for it. The structural rot in the Japanese economy r......
The Pentagon is considering a $1.85 billion proposal to construct key parts of US Navy warships in South Korean and Japanese shipyards, a potential break from long-standing policy......
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (陳立武) addressed intensifying competition in the AI PC and high-end PC markets at Computex 2026 on June 2, responding directly to questions about NVIDIA's entry......
As global AI investment accelerates unchecked, chemistry laureate Joachim Frank — visiting Taiwan for the first time in 27 years — tells Storm Media that the technology is strippin......
On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has issued a formal statement demanding that the Chinese government con......
As Intel works to rebuild its advanced process capabilities and foundry business, questions about whether the company is a competitor or collaborator with TSMC have been a persiste......
China sent no defense minister to Asia's most prominent annual security forum for the second consecutive year — yet managed to remain one of the most dominant presences at the even......
Home prices in China's top-tier cities have begun to recover, but the rebound marks a structural shift rather than a broad revival of the country's once-dominant property sector.
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A passenger ferry operated by Shosen Yaeyama — the Yaeyamamaru (八重山丸) — completed its inaugural voyage last week, connecting Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to Keelun......
The 37th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre falls on June 4, and for the first time in more than three decades, Beijing has prohibited members of the Tiananmen Mother......
A book arguing that Western societies are undermining themselves through misdirected compassion has become one of the more contentious cultural flashpoints of 2026, drawing enthusi......
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated in an interview that Chinese President Xi Jinping's preferred cross-strait scenario would be achieved through some form of unifi......
China's State Council on June 1, 2026 formally published the Outbound Investment Regulations (對外投資法), set to take effect on July 1. The rules establish a clearer framework for Chin......
Two infectious disease threats are converging on Taiwan's public health radar simultaneously. Hantavirus, a rodent-borne illness that can trigger fatal kidney failure, has logged i......
Taiwan's foreign ministry pushed back Tuesday against a bilateral maritime boundary deal taking shape between two of Washington's closest Asian allies, demanding consultation right......
Bilateral talks between Tokyo and Manila over overlapping ocean claims could quietly shrink Taiwan's recognized maritime space to its territorial sea alone, an international law sc......
