The National Housing and Urban Regeneration Center on Tuesday announced that it would start processing applications for a public urban renewal project in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) valued at NT$2.82 ... ( read original story ...)
High inflation, recession risk widen ECB dilemma
A customer shops in a supermarket in Nice, France, August 18, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard ... ( read original story ...)
Morning mail: MP properties revealed, Dawson verdict explained, Taiwan fires at Chinese drone
MPs and senators own or part-own hundreds of properties, analysis shows. Plus: five things that led to Chris Dawson’s guilty verdict ... ( read original story ...)
New Taipei City ranked as No. 1 relocation destination
thanks to the MRT railway serving metropolitan Taipei, she said. Lang said Tainan and Kaohsiung are expected to become the next trending destinations for relocation, as the two cities have attracted ... ( read original story ...)
Seventy-year lie: China has never had a serious claim to Taiwan
China's temper tantrum over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan seems to have sparked a mini-boom in congressional tourism for the island nation. ( read original story ...)
Chinese economy has been hit by a perfect storm: Property shock, Zero Covid, climate, Taiwan
The world's second largest economy is in crisis, hit by lockdowns, impaired supply chains, slump in real estate sector and geo-political tensions. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan to improve defences after soldiers throw rocks at Chinese drone
Video showing Taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at a Chinese drone has prompted the territory's government to beef up anti-aircraft defences on outlying islands. Taiwan's military confirmed that ... ( read original story ...)
New office space demand rising despite obstacles
Permits for new office space construction totaled 612,000 ping (2 million square meters) in the first half of this year, up 91 percent from a year earlier, as demand for upscale offices remained ... ( read original story ...)
China probes state property company executives over ‘serious violations’
China has announced that it is investigating several executives at state-owned property companies over allegations of “serious violations of discipline and law.” The probes are another blow to a key ... ( read original story ...)
China’s response to Pelosi visit to Taiwan a sign of future intentions, experts say
China's response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle -- dispatching warships and military aircraft to all sides of the self-governing island democracy, and ... ( read original story ...)
Live news updates from August 18: US and Taiwan to begin trade talks, Europe forest fires destroy record hectarage
A federal judge in Florida has given the US Department of Justice one week to suggest redactions to the affidavit justifying the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last week, paving the way ... ( read original story ...)
We must stop mincing our words about Taiwan
Chinese ambassador Xiao Qians accusation last week that Australia has violated the international rules of sovereignty was more than a little preposterous. ( read original story ...)
The Chinese dream of home ownership is crumbling. The economy could go with it
With financing drying up and debts due, the resulting cash crunch has left thousands of units unfinished, and owners boycotting their mortgages. ( read original story ...)
China’s Strategic Incoherence on Taiwan Shows Ominous Mindset | Opinion
Because China is doing something that makes no strategic sense, there must be something terribly wrong inside the Chinese political system at the moment. ( read original story ...)
Insisting “might is right”, China cares nothing for Taiwan’s people
China antics after the Taiwan visit on August 3-4 by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi demonstrated that the Chinese Communist Party C ... ( read original story ...)
5 things to know for Aug. 15: Floods, FBI Search, Taiwan, Health care strike, India
In the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property last week, FBI agents seized 11 sets of documents, some marked as "sensitive compartmented information" -- one ... ( read original story ...)