Peggy Chen, the retired pediatrician married to former Taiwan People's Party (TPP) chairman Ko Wen-je, spent part of her summer vacation treating a sick child aboard a high-speed t......
The United States and Japan launched their first coordinated currency intervention in 15 years on August 4, 2026, pushing the yen up roughly 4% against the dollar — but markets and......
Taiwan's legislature passed a landmark amendment to the Civil Code on July 28, abolishing a near-century-old provision that had guaranteed siblings a legally protected cut of a dec......
When the American Institute in Taiwan posted a photograph on July 28 showing US and Taiwan coast guard vessels sailing in formation, supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive......
Every year, Deutsche Bank publishes its Mapping the World's Prices report— a comprehensive survey that converts the cost of housing, wages, food, transport, and everyday goods acro......
The United States has imposed new tariffs on 60 trading partners, citing their failure to prevent the import of goods produced with forced labor. The response from most of those pa......
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau — the island's equivalent of the FBI, whose statutory mandate covers organized crime, cross-border criminal networks, and major economic offe......
China's second-quarter GDP growth fell to 4.3%, missing the government's official target range of 4.5–5% and falling below both the first quarter's 5% result and most external fore......
The Executive Yuan's recent approval of a NT$352.1 billion plan to extend Taiwan's high-speed rail (HSR) network to Yilan — and its broader endorsement of an island-wide "four 90-m......
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) traveled to Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) on July 23 to press the opposition-controlled legislature — Taiwa......
Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercise this year included, for the first time, a simulated internet disruption — throttling mobile data speeds across counties in the north and......
Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare raised the permissible residue limit for an insecticide on imported apples by a factor of six in April 2026. The government says industry as......
Taiwan's Control Yuan issued a formal correction on July 20 against the Hsinchu City Government and the Sports Administration, confirming that the construction and opening of the H......
The Japanese yen slid past 162 to the dollar this week, touching its weakest point in nearly four decades, as the Bank of Japan faces mounting skepticism that anything in its toolk......
Taiwan's Premier Cho Jung-tai faced calls to apologize in the Legislative Yuan this week over a carcinogenic cooking oil scandal centered on Central Union Oil Corp. (中聯油脂) — and sh......
Taiwan is facing overlapping food safety emergencies, and public confidence in the government's ability to manage them is collapsing.Soybean oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp.......
Taiwan is on course to record fewer than 80,000 births this year — and a leading obstetrician warns the final tally may not even reach that threshold. The numbers represent a new l......
Taiwan last year recorded a total fertility rate of 0.695 — the lowest ever measured for any country in the world. No amount of cash incentives, childcare reform, or parental leave......
Taiwan's judiciary has long carried a reputation for punishing the poor and powerless while accommodating the well-connected. A recent case put that bias on stark display: a conven......
As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed that the European Union pursue a "Plaza Accord for China" — a coordinated effort to force a significant revaluation of the renminbi — ......
The Ministry of Economic Affairs is preparing to aggressively promote "small hydropower" development — and to this editorial board, it signals that the Democratic Progressive Party......
Throughout June, Chinese coast guard vessels pushed into Japanese and Philippine waters on three separate fronts east and southeast of Taiwan, escorting government research ships a......
A fatal rockfall on a Taichung trail has reignited an old argument, and the wrong side is winning it online.On June 27, a 16-person hiking group from Taipei set out on the Butterfl......
Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) capped a cross-party delegation visit to Washington with a meeting at the Capitol alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson — and Taiwan's poli......
Taiwan's record-breaking economic growth has a problem: most of the country isn't feeling it — and now foreign media are saying so out loud.The Hankyoreh, a major South Korean dail......
Taiwan's Ministry of Culture has appointed veteran journalist and political commentator Chiang Chun-nan (江春男), 82, as the new chairman of the Central News Agency (CNA), drawing fre......
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During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
Taiwan's economy is running hot while inflation stays remarkably subdued. In the short term, that looks like welcome news. But beneath the surface, the risks are real — and growing......
Taitung County Mayor Rao Ching-ling (饒慶鈴) and five agricultural groups attended the Straits Forum in June to lobby for the resumption of pineapple custard apple exports to China — ......
Taiwan's Ministry of Environment last week announced the formation of what it calls a "biogas power national team" — a formal alliance of government agencies, industry players, and......
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......
With the sixth-term Control Yuan set to conclude its mandate at the end of July, Taiwan's constitutional oversight body has been pushing out investigations at a rapid pace. Not all......
Taiwan's Ministry of Finance has largely finalized plans for "New Ching-an 2.0,"(新青安2.0) a revised version of the government's preferential first-home mortgage program, with an Au......
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed concern about Taiwan's electricity supply, President Lai Ching-te responded by inviting him to tour a power plant. That response reveals ever......
When KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) made a high-profile visit to the United States, the Democratic Progressive Party responded with barely concealed fury.What set it off was a p......
Taiwan should respond to Washington's latest threat of punitive tariffs. But it should harbor no illusions that doing so will make those tariffs go away — because the stated ration......
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......
Two cases, unfolding simultaneously at opposite ends of Taiwan, have laid bare a troubling asymmetry at the heart of the island's judiciary. One involves a convicted former ruling-......
While the world's top technology executives converged on Taipei for COMPUTEX, Huawei was making its own statement — 1,000 kilometers away in Shanghai. At the ISCAS 2026 conference,......
Chiu Yi-jen (邱義仁) does not give interviews casually. As former Secretary-General of the National Security Council, presidential adviser, and Vice Chairman of the Democratic Progres......
A quiet but consequential drama played out in Taipei's financial district last Friday, when government-aligned shareholders secured a majority of board seats at National Bills Fina......
A towering tree does not grow overnight. It takes root because someone, decades earlier, broke ground in the heat, planted the seed, and kept watering it through the driest years. ......
When U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly accuses Taiwan of "stealing" America's semiconductor industry, the appropriate response from Taipei is clear rebuttal. Instead, Premier ......
Hsing Tai-chao (邢泰釗), who recently stepped down as Taiwan's Prosecutor-General, may be the most self-promotional occupant of that office in living memory. Five book launch events, ......
A potential $38 billion antitrust penalty against Apple in India offers a textbook case in how not to manage foreign investment — and a cautionary signal for any government, includ......
When President Lai Ching-te's administration unveiled its sweeping "cradle-to-adulthood" support package on May 20th, it cast the initiative as a turning point in Taiwan's fight ag......
Taiwan's nuclear-free status turned one year old this week. There is little to celebrate. What was billed as a historic milestone for the Democratic Progressive Party and its allie......
A seemingly technical dispute over nuclear fuel rods has recently drawn public attention in Taiwan — but the real story is not about NT$4 billion in potential savings. It is about ......
A proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.1 billion) special defense budget, spread across eight years, has plunged the Kuomintang(KMT) into an embarrassing internal brawl — one that expo......
