Taipei 101 climber Alex Honnold has shared the full playlist he listened to during his free solo scaling of the Taiwan skyscraper.As Honnold revealed in a Variety interview, the playlist indeed ...
Taiwan’s MediaTek flags supply chain crunch from AI, says will adjust prices
TAIPEI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A surge in demand for artificial intelligence applications is straining supply chains and driving up costs, Taiwan's top chip design company MediaTek said on Wednesday, ...
Taiwan Alternative Lending Business Report 2025: A $10.54 Billion Market by 2029, Driven by Expanding Digital Infrastructure, Fintech Innovation, and Evolving Borrower Demographics
The alternative lending market in Taiwan offers growth potential, driven by expanding digital infrastructure, fintech innovation, and evolving borrower demographics. Key opportunities lie in diverse ...
Taiwan must pass defense spending to avoid giving wrong impression, president says
U.S. pressure on the Beijing-claimed island has grown after the opposition-controlled parliament blocked $40 billion in proposed extra defense spending.
Taiwan must pass defence spending to avoid giving wrong impression, president says
TAIPEI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - If Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament continues to block $40 billion in proposed extra defence spending the international community could misunderstand the island's ...
What does the fall of PLA top brass Zhang Youxia say about Beijing’s Taiwan plans?
The investigation into China’s top commanders, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, has left the Central Military Commission (CMC), the country’s highest military command body, with just two members at ...
Taiwan-US ‘firepower’ center to hone asymmetric warfare tactics
Taiwan, for its part, would contribute "elite troops," and Washington might assign personnel in Guam or elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region to help.
Taiwan Just Cut a Trade Deal With the US. Is that Good or Bad News?
Taiwan has finally succeeded in reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration in the United States. After the latest round of trade negotiations between the U.S. and Taiwan, the Lai ...
Taiwan must look to democracies, not China, for trade cooperation, president says
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan must look to fellow democracies, not China, for trade and economic cooperation, President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday, as his ...
Inside Taiwan’s ‘butterfly kingdom,’ a rare natural wonder takes place every year
Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.
Image of cameraman filming Alex Honnold’s Taipei 101 climb is AI-generated
American daredevil Alex Honnold's free-climb of Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper in January 2026 was streamed live to a global audience, but an image circulating on social media purportedly showing a ...
Shoigu Says Russia Supports China’s Position on Taiwan
MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Moscow continues to support Beijing over Taiwan, state news agency TASS ...
Taiwan’s omission from Trump’s new defence strategy raises alarm
Taiwan’s omission from Trump’s new defence strategy raises alarm as China conducts sorties near island - Document asks allies to take primary responsibility for their own defence with ‘more limited su ...
China’s Xi, now alone atop his military, is the sole voice in tackling Taiwan
Purges of top generals means China’s leader has a freer hand to deal with the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.
‘Apparently there’s a different route…’: Google CEO Sundar Pichai shares photo of Alex Honnold climbing Taipei 101
Climber Alex Honnold achieved a historic feat by free-soloing Taiwan's Taipei 101 skyscraper. He ascended the 508-meter building without ropes or safety gear. The climb took about an hour and a half.
Taiwan’s first submarine completes initial submerged sea trial
Taiwan's first homebuilt conventional submarine completed its first submerged sea trial Thursday, a step in an eight-boat program to deter China.