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Tyrone Siu/ReutersEver wondered where World War III might break out?A clear and troubling consensus has emerged in the American national security community that the Taiwan Strait is the most likely ... ( read original story ...)

Asian giants China and Japan are uneasy neighbours. While they set aside historical animosity and mistrust in the early days of the pandemic - Japan sending boxes of masks to China bearing a line of ... ( read original story ...)

Worse, negative population growth will be permanent, according to the National Development Council, Taiwan's national policy-planning agency. The NDC forecasts that Taiwan will become "superaged" in ... ( read original story ...)

The Centers for Disease Control reported just eight new domestic infections Saturday (July 17), the first single-digit total since May 11.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s top health official indicated he is likely to lift soft-lockdown measures later this month, giving a boost to sectors struggling to stay afloat amid widespread Covid-19 restrictions. ( read original story ...)

The Philippines will head into the Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship grouped with two of the best teams in the continent. Asian no.5 Kazakhstan (world no.22) ... ( read original story ...)

C.B. Yi’s Un Certain Regard title “Moneyboys” is a moving exploration of Chinese rural-to-urban migration that feels authentically emotional despite being peppered with incongruous moments and ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has garnered another donation of COVID-19 vaccines, this time from Slovakia, which has pledged 10,000 doses in what the central European country said was a show of support after a Taiwanese ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has garnered another donation of COVID-19 vaccines, this time from Slovakia which has pledged 10,000 doses in what the central European country said a show of support after a Taiwanese gift of ... ( read original story ...)

However, given the strategic nature of Taiwan, given that its people could be in the fight of their lives to stay independent of the Peoples Republic of China, we must be more aggressive in donating ... ( read original story ...)

For the first time, Japan has removed Taiwan from a map of China in its Defence of Japan white paper published this week. The 2021 white paper by Japan's Defence Ministry focuses considerably on the ... ( read original story ...)

It noted that the U.S. had no explicit obligation to defend Taiwan but had helped maintain peace for decades through “strategic ambiguity”: provide Taiwan military support, encourage peaceful ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s annual defense white paper for the first time stresses the importance of Taiwan to the peace and security of the Asia-Pacific region. ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI/BEIJING – A U.S. Air Force aircraft made a brief, unannounced stop at an airport in central Taipei, Taiwan media reported Thursday, swiftly triggering a backlash from Beijing. China urges the ... ( read original story ...)

TSMC, the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for Apple Inc. and other global brands, said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 11.2% over a year earlier to $4.8 billion as demand ... ( read original story ...)

Nobody wants to see a war over Taiwan because nobody wants to disrupt the crucial global supply chain of semiconductors, the chairman of major chipmaker TSMC said on Thursday, in unusually direct ... ( read original story ...)