Despite Taiwan grappling with a worsening COVID-19 situation and shortage of vaccines, the self-governing island has refused to accept help from China, which claims the island as one of its ... ( read original story ...)
8th consecutive year the Louisiana Legislature heaped praise on Formosa Plastics
For nearly a decade, Louisiana lawmakers have passed annual resolutions encouraging closer economic ties with Taiwan. Dating back to 2014, these resolutions have mentioned Formosa Plastics, the ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Taiwan outbreak ‘appears to stabilise’ as new cases fall
Taiwan’s Covid-19 outbreak appears to have stabilised, with the number of new daily infections dropping below 300 cases in the past week. On Monday, the island reported 185 new infections – all local ... ( read original story ...)
The Membrane: Chi Ta-wei’s eerily prescient novel on the terrors of technology available for the first time in English
Available for the first time in English, Taiwanese author Chi Ta-wei’s 1995 work The Membranes imagines the future like the best of our dystopian meditations. ( read original story ...)
Asian Qualifiers – Group B Preview: Australia challenge for Jordan, Kuwait’s chances hanging by a thread ahead of Chinese Taipei tie
Jordan will have to beat Australia - something Graham Arnold's side have yet to experience - when the two teams square off in Group B of the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC ... ( read original story ...)
How Taiwan’s struggle for Covid vaccines is inflaming tensions with China
As island faces new outbreak and mistrust of Chinese jabs, Beijing objects to donations from US and Japan ... ( read original story ...)
China Airlines reopens VIP lounges at Taipei Taoyuan
China Airlines, via its official website, stated (10-Jun-2021) its VIP lounge at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport reopened on 11-Jun-2021. However, due to the epidemic regulations of the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan says will be ‘force for good’ after unprecedented G7 support
Taiwan will be a "force for good" and continue to seek even greater international support, the presidential office said, after the Chinese-claimed island won unprecedented backing from the Group of ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-Taiwan spat threatens cross-Strait business
Official representation between Hong Kong and Taiwan is set to end this year as mounting political tensions threaten one of the region’s most important trade and investment relationships. The number ... ( read original story ...)
Opposition forces U-turn on Chinese campus in Hungary
Protests against the construction of a Chinese university in Budapest have energized the Hungarian opposition ahead of elections next year, and forced the government into a rare U-turn. Outrage at ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: Despite a surge in cases, Taiwan resists China’s vaccine diplomacy
As it grapples with a worsening Covid-19 situation, Taiwan is also facing a critical shortage of vaccines. And while Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as one of its territories, has ... ( read original story ...)
Concerns grow over China’s Taiwan plans
Concerns are growing in Washington over the possibility that China could try to invade Taiwan in the next few years.Top U.S. military officers have warned in recent months that Beijing might try to ... ( read original story ...)
McDonald’s hit by data breaches in US, South Korea and Taiwan
McDonald's is the latest massive corporation to be hit by a cyberattack. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bad actors that infiltrated its systems managed to steal customer and employee ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live news: England likely to delay final stage of lockdown easing; Taiwan reports 250 new cases
Honours for key UK figures in vaccine drive as ... ( read original story ...)
rotating cantilevered structure transforms taipei fine arts museum store into a dynamic space
J.C. architecture designed ‘a little museum store’, a small museum shop with a rotating cantilevered structure inside the taipei fine arts museum lobby in taiwan. in the 1960s ... ( read original story ...)
‘Absurd story’: Blinken dials top Chinese official on virus transparency, Taiwan
According to the Chinese state media, Yang told Blinken that some people in the US were spreading an "absurd story" about the virus escaping from the Wuhan laboratory. ( read original story ...)