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......
South Korea's stock market is in the grip of a retail investor frenzy drawing comparisons to past speculative bubbles. The benchmark Kospi index has surged more than 200% over the ......
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to China since beginning his second term — and the first formal visit by a sitting U.S. president to China in nearly nine......
By Huang Chun-chao (黃俊超)Taiwan's benchmark index crossed the 40,000-point threshold for the first time, propelled by a landmark regulatory change and broad-based gains among the ma......
A Nobel Prize-winning economist has predicted that a four-day workweek — and a three-day weekend — will become a global trend, driven by the convergence of industrialization and ar......
Taiwan's MediaTek may be better known globally for powering budget smartphones, but Goldman Sachs is betting the chipmaker's next act will be defined by artificial intelligence inf......
Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sir Paul Nurse, a leading authority in genetics and cell biology, discovered a family secret that had been hidden for half a century only in middle ag......
For two years, investors wondered when the hundreds of billions of dollars poured into artificial intelligence infrastructure would finally deliver real returns. In the first quart......
As geopolitical tensions reshape research priorities worldwide, theTang Prize Foundation on April 30 published a report arguing that artificial intelligence has become one of the b......
Taiwan's semiconductor industry is on track for a record-breaking year, with output projected to reach NT$7.1 trillion (approximately $222 billion) in 2026 — a 24.4% jump from the ......
China's DeepSeek has released its V4 model, and Wall Street is paying close attention. In a report published April 24, Goldman Sachs described the launch as a milestone comparable ......
Five centuries before the API, Leonardo da Vinci was already running a cross-disciplinary operation — painting ceilings, designing war machines, and mapping the human body. What ma......
South Korea's government, already grappling with one of the world's most severe demographic declines, is now extending its policy response into an unexpected domain: the structure ......
Taiwan is shifting from export-driven manufacturing toward a co-production model with the United States, as Washington accelerates efforts to rebuild its industrial base. The trans......
The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released the 2026 Economic Report of the President, which centers on the policy roadmap and projected outcomes of the One Big Beaut......
The logic of globalization was once to maximize efficiency. The logic of competition today is to minimize risk. As supply chains shift from "lowest cost" to "most reliable," the na......
Japan's minister responsible for steering the country's artificial intelligence strategy has surprised observers by revealing she avoids using AI tools in her own work.Onoda Kimi, ......
On March 23, 2026, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang faced a thoroughly debated question on the Lex Fridman Podcast regarding when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arri......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has posted record-breaking revenue figures for both March and the first quarter of 2026, driven by strong demand for advanced chips us......
Edvard Moser, the Norwegian neuroscientist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has warned that the unchecked development of artificial intelligence poses a d......
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a wide-ranging assessment of the global economy in his 2025 annual letter to shareholders, warning that geopolitical conflicts, technological ......
From the fax machine to the internet to artificial intelligence, a recurring hope has run through Western democratic thinking: that technology would eventually make China freer. It......
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......
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......
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......
Hon Hai Technology Group, internationally known as Foxconn, has announced a strategic partnership with global software leader SAP SE.The collaboration aims to dramatically accelera......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Chairman C.C. Wei (魏哲家) said that the true value of robotics lies not in performance but in intelligence, as he delivered remarks ......
Four weeks into the Middle East conflict, the Strait of Hormuz remains only partially accessible — and the consequences are extending far beyond oil markets. Analysts warn that dis......
China's highly choreographed "Two Sessions" parliamentary meetings are set to convene March 4-5, where the Communist Party will unveil its economic and strategic blueprint for 2026......
Successive U.S. administrations have urged global manufacturers to reduce their reliance on mainland China, pushing production back to the United States or toward alternatives such......
Taiwan has enacted the Artificial Intelligence Basic Act to establish a legal framework for the technology, but experts warn that the island faces significant hurdles in data avail......
While public discourse on artificial intelligence has long been dominated by debates over model sizes, deployment costs, and generation quality, analysts warn that society is overl......
As Taiwanese technology companies expand their manufacturing footprint in the United States, a familiar concern has resurfaced at home: are they being forced to move by Washington?......
Australian Envoy Warns China's Gray Zone Tactics Are Testing US–Japan DeterrenceChina's expanding use of so-called “gray zone” tactics—coercive actions short of open warfare—is st......
As artificial intelligence reshapes how innovation leadership is measured, companies that sit at structurally central points in the AI hardware supply chain are moving into sharper......
As global politics becomes increasingly shaped by ad hoc deal-making among major powers, Taiwan is facing growing strategic uncertainty, a risk highlighted this week at the 2026 ......
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan's largest utility company, announced it will restart a reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on the evening of January 21. T......
On January 21, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a combative 70-minute address at the annual session of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
During the speech......
Nobel Prize-winning economist and former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz returned to Taiwan for the first time in 35 years, warning that the rapid development of artific......
AI Hegemony or Digital Democracy? Deciphering Microsoft’s 2025 Global AI Adoption ReportIn the rapidly evolving landscape of 2025, Microsoft’s latest AI Diffusion Report unveils a ......
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed a bill to establish a national governance framework for AI development on December 23. The law aims to provide predictable rules around AI researc......
134.8 billion won (approximately $115 million USD)South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang suffered a massive personal data leak that began in June 2025 and was discovered in Novembe......
