Taiwan's edible oil industry is confronting its most serious food safety crisis in years. Roughly 1,300 metric tons of soybean salad oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp. (中聯油脂) ......
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......
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......
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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 ......
Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Michael You (游盈隆) has been in office for barely two months. That was long enough for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislat......
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......
As U.S.-Iran tensions show tentative signs of easing, a prominent Washington strategist is urging the Trump administration to confront an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of its ......
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 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......
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 — ......
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......
Every graduation season, as flame trees bloom across Taiwan, social media fills up with the same promises: high-paying jobs abroad, no experience required.This year, the advertisem......
A new poll released Monday shows that nearly three-quarters of Taiwan's public supports political negotiations with Beijing when measured across a ten-year dataset, with former Pre......
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 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 ......
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 ......
Taiwan's legislature recently approved a NT$780 billion special defense budget ceiling that stripped out all planned commercial purchases and commissioned development of unmanned v......
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-......
Does sharing a language and script with China mean Taiwan must be treated as part of the same nation? Does Beijing's claim that Taiwan has been "an inseparable part of China since ......
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......
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In the volatile theater of major-power politics, the international community has spent the days following last week's high-stakes Trump–Xi summit in Beijing dissecting every diplom......
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 ......
Taiwan's birth rate has nearly halved over the past decade, even as government subsidies have expanded dramatically — raising fundamental questions about whether cash transfers alo......
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......
The Trump administration has suspended a proposed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, one of the largest defense packages considered for the island, after the Pentagon and White House......
The Trump-Xi summit has shattered what remained of Taiwan's strategic comfort zone. What emerged from that meeting was not ambiguity but blunt clarity — and Taiwan's ruling party i......
Taipei officials acknowledge Trump's remarks and thank Washington for its concern over cross-strait stability; the Presidential Office says more details will be released as develop......
As President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) marks the second anniversary of his inauguration, he finds himself hemmed in on every side — by a transactional Washington, a closed-off Beijing, a ......
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......
What Xi Actually Said to Trump — and Why It Matters More Than Taiwan's Response
After the Trump-Xi summit in China, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) issued a 1,500-character statement......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry has elevated two previously marginal internal units to central roles in its diplomatic operations, signaling a structural shift away from values-based dip......
When a U.S. court invalidated the legal basis for President Donald Trump's universal 10% import tariff last Thursday, most affected economies had reason to exhale. Taiwan did not. ......
When Taiwan's Legislative Yuan rejected Hsu Hsi-hsiang (徐錫祥) as the nominee for Prosecutor General, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) did not pause, reconsider, or seek a new candidate.......
Taiwan just delivered one of its most remarkable economic performances in nearly four decades. Official data released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistic......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) successfully visited Eswatini — Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in Africa — despite intense pressure from Beijing that initially blocked......
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"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
Taiwan's first homegrown submarine, Hai Kun (海鯤號), headed back out to sea Tuesday for the most consequential stretch of its trial program yet — a live torpedo-firing test that must......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) touched down at Taoyuan International Airport on Tuesday morning, escorted by four Air Force F-16V fighter jets, after completing a two-day stat......
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......
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......
How Beijing's Anti-Independence Drive Shapes Cross-Strait TensionsA high-profile meeting between Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) and Kuomintang (KMT) Ch......
![Some 1,300 metric tons of Central Union Oil Corp. soybean salad oil were found to contain benzo[a]pyrene, a Group 1 carcinogen, at four times the legal limit, rocking Taiwan's food supply chain. Illustrative file photo. (CNA)](https://images.storm.mg/cloud/8f32f49414b1efddaf48b9d96f500d7356989d66.webp?url=s3%3A%2F%2Fnew-storm-public-resource%2Fgallery%2F2179047%2F20260704-091626_U13925_M1062550_1cc6.jpeg&g=sm&h=200&resize=fill&w=200 "Some 1,300 metric tons of Central Union Oil Corp. soybean salad oil were found to contain benzo[a]pyrene, a Group 1 carcinogen, at four times the legal limit, rocking Taiwan's food supply chain. Illustrative file photo. (CNA)")
