His latest project is tentatively titled “96 Minutes,” and follows a fictional tale about a bomb threat on a train ride from Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, to Kaohsiung, located in the ... ( read original story ...)
China-made drones may be relaying information to Beijing, warn Taiwanese experts
Taiwan News quoted Su Tzu-yun, director of the Institute for National Defence and Security Research, as saying. In the past, Xiaomi, Huawei, and ZTE mobile phones as well as DJI drones have all ... ( read original story ...)
Responding to Ukraine Tensions, Taiwan Says It Is Watching Situation With China
Responding to Ukraine Tensions, Taiwan Says It Is Watching Situation With China TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is closely watching the situation in the narrow strait that separates it from China and ... ( read original story ...)
Govt ready to deploy 40,000 OFWs to Taiwan
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 12) — The Philippine government said about 40,000 individuals can be deployed once Taiwan reopens its doors to Filipino workers. "Pagdating sa number of ... ( read original story ...)
Beethoven and the bin collectors of Taipei
“I enjoy taking out the rubbish because it’s a chance to catch up with my friends,” says Kusmi, who is originally from Indonesia and now lives in Taipei, the island’s capital, where she works as a ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s CPI climbs in January
TAIPEI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan's Consumer Price Index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose by 2.84 percent year on year in January, above the 2-percent inflation warning line, according to data ... ( read original story ...)
War over Taiwan among five likely conflict scenarios with PLA, US think tank says
Beijing and Washington could go to war over Taiwan, or if four other Asian scenarios came to pass, a US-based think tank said in a recent report. Mainland Chinese observers, however, believe US ties ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: Taiwan’s move should lead way to ease food import curbs
Taiwan’s decision to substantially ease restrictions on Japanese food imports may not go as far as Japan had hoped. But it could be a significant step toward the elimination of import curbs on ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Ranks Among Top 10 Democracies in Annual Index
Taiwan ranked as the eighth-strongest democracy in the world last year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's new 2021 Democracy Index, and as the second strongest in Asia and Australasia, ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. Sees China Watching Ukraine Showdown as a Proxy for Taiwan
The Biden administration increasingly believes that China is gauging the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis as a proxy for how America would deal with more aggressive action by Beijing against Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Was it Beijing testing Taiwan’s defences with unidentified Matsu island flyover?
Beijing could be trying to test Taiwan’s self-defence counter-strike capabilities, Taiwanese military analysts said, after an unidentified aircraft recently flew over a Taipei-controlled island off ... ( read original story ...)
5.4 magnitude earthquake hits waters off eastern Taiwan
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 00:43 am on Saturday, Beijing Time, according to local media. Citing China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Core Inflation Jumps by Most Since 2009 Despite Curbs
Core inflation in Taiwan posted its biggest rise in 13 years, an indication that the government’s efforts to battle rising prices are falling short and raising expectations that the central bank act ... ( read original story ...)
Home of the huge: China has long history of going really big
Many view it as the largest building project in history, stretching from China and East ... roughly equal to the total number of inhabitants of Rueifang District (瑞芳) in New Taipei City. Last year, ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes Taiwan region – EMSC
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Taiwan on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. Subscribe to get daily news updates, insights ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Asia’s top democracy: report
Taiwan has been ranked Asia’s No. 1 “full democracy,” jumping three places in the 2021 Democracy Index rankings from the previous year, a report released on Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit ... ( read original story ...)