China's government announced on 12 April a package of ten measures aimed at promoting cross-strait exchange and cooperation.
The Presidential Office pushed back, saying Taiwan s......
Hsinchu County, known for its blend of tech culture, scenic landscapes, historic old streets, and modern urban landmarks, has consistently ranked among northern Taiwan's most popul......
Taiwan's cabbage has made waves in South Korea, emerging as a highly sought-after agricultural product among expatriates living there. After a fresh produce platform listed cabbage......
ASE Chief Executive Tien Wu (吳田玉) stated that the global semiconductor industry has entered a crucial phase of transformation. As supply chain restructuring accelerates, ASE contin......
Kuomintang（KMT）Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun(鄭麗文) met Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday morning in the first KMT–CCP leadership summit in ten year......
The term "1992 Consensus" has dominated Taiwan's political discourse for more than three decades. Some describe it as the cornerstone of cross-strait peace; others dismiss it as a ......
For Taiwan's growing community of pet owners, a regulatory battle between pharmacists and veterinarians has become impossible to ignore — not least because their cats and dogs stan......
Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文), chair of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT, 中國國民黨), departed for China on April 7 on a six-day trip she has branded the "2026 Peace Journey," ......
Taiwan's defense special legislation has been deadlocked for months. The dispute started with a name. KMT legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) insisted the bill be called "Arms Procurem......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) led a delegation to mainland China and held a luncheon meeting with approximately 300 Taiwanese businesspeople at the Shanghai Dongjiao Sta......
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......
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale coordinated military strike against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran's senior leader......
In an exclusive telephone interview with Storm Media, Lee Tai-chuang (李大壯) — chairman of the China New Era Think Tank Foundation, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Confer......
A High-Stakes Diplomatic MissionKuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is set to lead a party delegation to mainland China on April 7, culminating in a meeting with Chinese Comm......
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has significantly intensified pressure on Taiwan, with Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) warning that Beijing has organized a so-called......
Japan's inheritance tax can turn even a large estate into a financial burden, especially when wealth is tied up in property. The reported case of late actress Miho Nakayama has ren......
Taiwan's February trade agreement with the United States — struck under pressure from President Donald Trump's tariff policies — may involve significantly more capital flowing to A......
For years, a peculiar piece of food lore has circulated among Taiwanese internet users: that Coca-Cola simply tastes better at McDonald's in Taiwan than anywhere else on earth. Peo......
When China's People's Liberation Army conducted its "Joint Sword" exercises in 2025, senior Taiwanese national security officials disclosed something unusual: one drill component w......
Taiwan's benchmark stock index crossed the historic 30,000-point threshold in January, while daily trading volume has regularly exceeded approximately $26.7 billion. On the surface......
Facing an increasingly closed and personally authoritarian China, Taiwan has two clear imperatives, according to Yasheng Huang (黃亞生), a globally recognized authority on China and p......
If measured purely by pitch accuracy, vocal consistency, and replicability, could artificial intelligence one day outperform a human singer? When that question was put to Im Seulo......
As U.S. equities have grown increasingly volatile and the S&P 500 has weakened, pressure on global technology stocks has intensified — yet Taiwan's market has held up comparatively......
A recent survey released by the National Science and Technology Council, known as the Taiwan Election and Democratization Study (TEDS), found that public support for democratic ins......
For the first time in a decade, the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party are set to meet face to face. The world has changed dramatically since their last summ......
Taiwan and the United States recently signed the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, a controversial deal mandating massive Taiwanese investments in America. The agreement commits Taiwa......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) will lead a historic party delegation to mainland China from April 7 to April 12. This monumental diplomatic trip marks the first visit by ......
Driven by a surging technology industry, the Taiwan Stock Exchange recently broke the 35,000-point barrier, pushing the island's total market capitalization past that of France. Th......
Taiwan's defense budget has become a central flashpoint within the Legislative Yuan, drawing close attention from the American Institute in Taiwan. Meanwhile, a veteran financial o......
The sudden death of a senior trade official has reopened damaging questions about Taiwan's bid to join a major regional trade bloc. The controversy centers on whether the governmen......
The Legislative Yuan's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, along with the Finance Committee, reviewed competing special defense budget bills proposed by the Executive Y......
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) recently received an unexpectedly high-profile reception at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) during her visit to New York. Observers note th......
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has formally assessed that China has no current plan to invade Taiwan in 2027 and no fixed reunification timetable, effe......
Taiwan's vulnerability to energy disruption — long flagged as a strategic liability in Washington policy circles — has gained renewed attention following recent conflict in the Mid......
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) delivered a fully English-language address Thursday (March 26) at the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan's (AmCham Taiwan) annualbanquet "Hsieh Nie......
The US-Iran conflict has exposed fresh vulnerabilities in East Asia's energy supply chains, reigniting debate over Taiwan's heavy reliance on imported natural gas — and whether the......
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......
A bipartisan U.S. Senate delegation led by Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator John Curtis arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, March 30, for a two-day visit. The dele......
As the United States conducts military operations in the Middle East, a sharp disagreement has emerged within Washington's foreign policy establishment. Speculation over a potentia......
The US and Israeli military campaign against Iran, launched on February 28, has evolved into a protracted conflict that threatens global economic stability and inadvertently advan......
Since its founding, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge has produced an astonishing 16 Nobel laureates. Sir Gregory P. Winter, a Nobel l......
"The Lobby Used to Be So Packed You Could Barely Move. Now It Feels Like a Different Hotel."At a resort hotel in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Chinese guests once accounte......
China's Taiwan Affairs Office held its regular press briefing on March 25, with spokesperson Zhu Fenglian (朱鳳蓮) outlining a series of infrastructure projects that Beijing says it c......
The indictment of mainland-born spouse Xu Chunying has reignited debate about Chinese infiltration of Taiwan's political parties. But the real casualty may not be the Taiwan People......
Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), former chairman of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), was sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Taipei District Court on Thursday in the Jing Hua Cheng development ......
Every time a Taiwanese user asks an AI chatbot what to eat for breakfast and receives the answer "hamburger," a small but telling distortion occurs. The AI is not malfunctioning — ......
"Rich in everything but people." When discussing Taiwan's AI survival strategy, 簡立峰 (Chien Lee-feng), former General Manager of Google Taiwan, opened with a stark warning about the......
Taiwan's legislature has authorized the executive branch to sign Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for four U.S. arms procurement packages, even as the broader NT$1.25 trillion......
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that Washington is actively negotiating with Iran, a major diplomatic development that Tehran's government has also formally acknowledg......
Taiwan is unlikely to be used as a bargaining chip in any upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平). That assessment comes from Chang ......
