Taiwan's government unveiled a near-NT$4 trillion (US$125 billion) budget this week that sets aside more than NT$600 billion (US$18.8 billion) in direct cash programs for citizens ......
Taiwan Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), not known for a short fuse, erupted twice during the August 11 cross-party budget negotiations — a five-minute tirade to open the ......
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) publicly reprimanded his own Kuomintang (KMT) caucus whip, Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁), on August 11 for skipping budget negotiations, telli......
If you have been in Taiwan this July, you may have noticed something odd: cooking oil bottles missing from supermarket shelves, convenience stores quietly pulling certain bento box......
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 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.......
As China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress entered into force on July 1, Taiwan finds itself on the other side of a pointed contrast: a sweeping national security reform......
As the United States marked 250 years of independence on July 4, Chinese state media and social platforms devoted unusual attention to the milestone, even as Washington, Brussels a......
Taiwan's former President Tsai Ing-wen made her first public appearance in Taiwan on Thursday since returning from a trip to Italy, telling a business audience that the island can ......
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 U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly accuses Taiwan of "stealing" America's semiconductor industry, the appropriate response from Taipei is clear rebuttal. Instead, Premier ......
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 President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) arrived in Eswatini on May 2, days after a planned state visit was disrupted when China pressured several African nations along the presidential......
When Michael You (游盈隆) took the helm of Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) last month, few expected him to immediately pick a fight with the cabinet. Yet within weeks of hi......
A single sprouted potato has achieved what opposition lawmakers, trade analysts, and public health advocates could not: it has punctured the Lai administration's carefully crafted ......
A report by Nikkei Asia revealed that some Japanese officials felt Taiwan's Premier Cho Jung-tai's (卓榮泰) March visit to Tokyo for the World Baseball Classic had crossed a line. One......
A revealing contradiction has emerged at the heart of the Lai Ching-te (賴清德) administration's consumer policy. On one side, the government has frozen fuel prices, with Premier Cho ......
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......
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......
As U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran ignite a broader Middle East conflict and the threat of a closure of the Strait of Hormuz looms over global energy markets, Taiwan is already fe......
When Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) addressed Taiwan's legislature this week on nuclear energy and power policy, many observers took his remarks as a signal that the government is prep......
Two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, the strategic picture is becoming clearer — and considerably less favorable to Washington than early declarations of......
China's newly approved 15th Five-Year Plan features a sharper, more aggressive tone toward Taiwan, replacing long-standing rhetoric with a vow to "resolutely strike" against Taiwan......
Taiwan's team was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic preliminaries. That should have been the story. Instead, Premier Cho Jung-tai's (卓榮泰) brief trip to Tokyo to watch the ......
The United States and Israel have launched "Operation Epic Fury," a surprise strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an air raid. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has r......
After nine months of intensive tariff negotiations with the U.S., Taiwanese Deputy Premier Cheng Li-chun returned to the country to Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). remain sharply divi......
The Legislative Yuan has held two consecutive days of public hearings on the presidential impeachment case, with a full committee meeting scheduled for next week to invite impeache......
During a flag-raising ceremony at the Presidential Office on January 1, 2026, Taiwan's Executive Premier Cho Jung-tai pronounced four wishes regarding several key policy disputes t......
Taiwan People's Party legislator Huang Kuo-chang proposed a motion to impeach Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai at a judiciary committee meeting on December 18. It passed with support......
Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai announced on December 15 that the Executive Yuan would refuse to endorse a proposed amendment previously passed by a parliamentary coalition of the ......
