World cities seen through taxi windows and conversations with the drivers. This time in Taipei, a city of high-rises and temples, the old and the new.
Homes Threatened, Evacuations Called After Heavy Rains in New Taipei – TaiwanPlus News
Heavy rains have caused flooding and a mudslide in New Taipei. Windy with times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 60s.
Taiwan’s new ‘carrier killer’ ships are ready to boost island’s asymmetric war plan
Tuo Jiang-class corvettes, with stealth technology and anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, to be commissioned amid rise in PLA threats.
What happens to AI progress if China invades Taiwan? A chat with ‘Chip War’ expert Chris Miller.
He says chip designers such as Nvidia are in a precarious position — even as they're on top of the world.
What Taiwan is learning from the war in Ukraine
For the Taiwanese public, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revealed the dangers at their own doorstep, said Taiwan’s de facto ambassador in Washington.
Taiwan tops Asia’s best-performing stock markets so far in 2024 — Japan is No. 2
Optimism in AI drove up Taiwan's stock market in the first half of 2024, making it the top performing market in Asia-Pacific so far this year. The stock markets in Thailand and Indonesia were the ...
Google buys stake in Taiwan solar power firm owned by BlackRock
Google said it has taken a stake in Taiwan's New Green Power and could buy up to 300 megawatts of renewable energy from the BlackRock fund-owned firm to help cut its carbon emissions and those of ...
Taiwan, South Korea Factories Are Bustling the Most in Two Years
Taiwan and South Korea’s manufacturing activity yielded the best results in two years in June, leading gains across the region a day after China’s disappointing data, according to the purchasing ...
Indonesian band takes stand for Taiwan’s migrant workers
Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Surrounded by his fellow band members, Rudi takes the stage in Taiwan’s southern port city of Kaohsiung. As he looks out over the crowd, his bandmates begin to play, whipping the ...
Taichung breaks ground for shopping complex
Photo: Chen Chien-chih, Taipei Times Taichung would work with the Railway Bureau and Di Yi Da International Development Co, the company in charge of the project, to address these issues, Lu said. The ...
Beijing has never governed Taiwan for a single day: Taipei slams ‘One China’ principle
Taiwan has slammed China for its long-standing 'One China' principle and emphasised that Beijing has never controlled Taipei for even a single day, Taiwan News reported. At the Organization of ...
A prominent think tank says China could take control of Taiwan without even launching an invasion — here’s how
China could take control of Taiwan without even launching an invasion, a think tank report says. The report says that China could use a "quarantine" of Taiwan to exert control over the island. The ...
Taiwan detects five Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels near its territory
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence reported five Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels operating around Taiwan from Saturday to Sunday. This included incursions into Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ). Taiwan's armed forces ...
Taiwan detects five Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels near its territory
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) said on Sunday that five Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels operating around Taiwan from 6 am (local time) on Saturday to 6 am (local time) on Sunday. According to Taiwan MND, five of the Chinese ...
Vaidehi storms into Taipei final
Ahmedabad: India’s rising tennis player Vaidehi Chaudhari stamped her authority with a dominant win to enter the women’s singles final of W$35K ITF tournament in Chinese Taipei, on Saturday. The ...
Taiwan singer urges awards audience to remember Tiananmen
Chinese artists in recent years have largely stayed away from Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards given renewed tension between democratically governed Taiwan and China, which views the island as its own territory, and the reference to Tiananmen is unlikely to ...