At this year's Summer Davos Forum in Dalian, something unexpected happened. China's hottest sectors — robotics, autonomous vehicles, large language model labs — were largely absent......
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on July 27 released the complete model weights of Kimi K3, its flagship large language model — becoming the first company in the world to publicly re......
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......
The Straits Forum has convened for eighteen consecutive years. The Democratic Progressive Party has long regarded it with suspicion as an instrument of Beijing's political outreach......
When Apple quietly shifted a portion of its chip orders to Intel, the move was widely read as a sign of trouble for TSMC. Shih Jun-ji(施俊吉) sees it differently — as evidence that th......
Japan's largest air-conditioning manufacturer, Daikin Industries, reported record revenue and profit for the fiscal year ending March 2026, driven by surging demand for data center......
At the end of 2025, the Bureau of Labor Funds (勞動基金運用局) under Taiwan's Ministry of Labor announced a record-breaking result: the New Labor Pension Fund (新制勞退基金) generated annual re......
For more than a decade, Asia served as the world's most reliable economic growth engine. That dominant narrative is now rapidly failing as the region fragments and old economic mod......
Gold prices, which had continued their 2025 rally into early 2026 and surged nearly 30% within a single month, subsequently entered a corrective phase and plunged sharply following......
As tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate — from the conflict in Gaza to the security crisis in the Red Sea — international commentary has focused largely on military dyn......
