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......
A new report from one of Australia's leading defense think tanks argues that China may not need to force its way through the Western-designed security cordon in the Western Pacific......
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......
A decade after an international tribunal delivered a landmark ruling against Beijing's sweeping South China Sea claims, China has not merely maintained its refusal to accept the ve......
South Korea has passed what legal observers call some of the world's toughest anti-scalping legislation, but the law's core penalties will not take effect until August 28 — leaving......
A Taiwanese district court judge vacationing in China was tracked down and interrogated at his hotel by Chinese public security officers, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) re......
Taiwan's legislature passed the Virtual Asset Service Act in its third reading on June 30, creating the country's first licensing framework for cryptocurrency service providers and......
Taiwan's government has formally condemned China after a Japanese-born political commentator was punched in the face during a public event in Taichung, an assault prosecutors say w......
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 ......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a People's Liberation Army Navy nuclear-powered submarine fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile carrying a simulated warhead into the South Pacific ......
Sixteen years after Taiwan and China signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the deal has outlived the political consensus that produced it — yet t......
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......
At roadside checkpoints across Taiwan, officers overwhelmingly test for one thing: alcohol. By one prosecutor's estimate, 99.9% of enforcement stops still target drunk driving, eve......
A growing number of illegal e-cigarette devices in Taiwan are being laced with etomidate — or cut with cannabis and metomidate — in a combination known on the street as a "zombie v......
A hospital anesthetic repackaged as fruit-flavored vape oil has fueled a 900-fold surge in drug detections, deadly crashes, and Taiwan's toughest narcotics upgrade in years — and e......
On June 27, Chinese and Russian air forces carried out their 11th Joint Air Strategic Patrol, sending more than 15 aircraft across the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the west......
Taiwan's top cross-strait policy body has accused Beijing of using a newly enacted ethnic unity law to impose legal obligations on Taiwanese citizens, warning the measure marks an ......
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 anti-fraud task force was formally established in July 2022. Since then, the Executive Yuan has rolled out two updated versions of its national anti-fraud action plan, and......
Fraud messages don't materialize out of nowhere on your phone. They start as a fake investment ad on Facebook, a deepfake celebrity endorsement video, a fraudulent game promo code ......
You just collected a parcel from a convenience store. Minutes later, your phone rings — someone claiming to be from the logistics company, knowing exactly which platform you ordere......
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......
While much of central Taiwan braced against relentless downpours last week, a group of soldiers was deep in the rugged terrain near Guguan, completing one of the military's most gr......
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 ......
China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress takes effect on July 1, giving Beijing a sweeping new legal instrument that analysts and foreign governments warn could extend pu......
Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters surrounding Itu Aba Island on June 11 — the first deliberate intrusion since Taiwan formally designated those zones in ......
China's export restrictions on Japan, now in their sixth month, are doing exactly what Beijing intended: severing a critical link in the U.S. defense industrial supply chain — and ......
Taiwan's Drone Billions Risk Becoming a Procurement Parade Without a Strategy
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During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday pushed back against suggestions that Vilnius is distancing itself from Taipei, insisting that bilateral cooperation remains on track ......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wen (鄭麗文) concluded her sixteen-day visit to the United States this week. Reactions have been predictably mixed, shaped more by existing politi......
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (國家安全局, NSB) opened a dedicated online portal on June 14 to solicit intelligence tips from people inside mainland China and Chinese nationals abro......
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance must be bounded by clear ethical limits—or it risks becoming genuinely dangerous. That is the warning from Yen Bo-wen (顏博文), C......
Ask any expat what surprises them most about living in Taiwan, and the answers tend to cluster around the usual suspects — the safety, the night markets, the bubble tea. But a vira......
Taiwan's export machine is breaking records, and its stock market has surged more than 60% since January. But a wave of blockbuster U.S. tech listings — led by SpaceX's $2.1 trilli......
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......
U.S. atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon has been awarded the 2026 Tang Prize (唐獎) in Sustainable Development. In a video interview with Storm Media, she said: "We have crossed an im......
Taiwan's military has covertly established a cross-border data backup infrastructure in Japan — a move designed to preserve critical command, communications, and operational data i......
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......
When Jacob Langenkamp sat down with The Storm Media in Taipei on June 10, he came with a single question prepared — and it wasn't about price charts or crypto markets. It was about......
When Conner Brown made his case for Bitcoin in Taipei, he did not begin with price charts. He began with 1949."A big part of why Taiwan was able to survive was the gold reserves," ......
For decades, the question of whether the United States would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan against a People's Liberation Army assault has been one of Asia's most fiercely c......
Kuomintang(KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) came to New York prepared for a fight — and she got one.On the evening of June 8 (Eastern Time), Cheng appeared at the Asia Society's ......
