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Taiwan's Cabinet said on Monday that with COVID-19 cases abating there is room to ease restrictions and ministries and officials should make preparations for doing so, as the island begins emerging ... ( read original story ...)

Imports median forecast +33.4% (prior month +40.9%) Balance median forecast $5.68 bln (prior month $6.16 bln) CPI median forecast +2.3% y/y (prior month +2.48%) Trade due Wednesday, July 7, 4:00 p.m. ( read original story ...)

At the end of May, Chen Pei-jer, a member of an expert committee in Taiwan to evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for use on the island, resigned. Chen's resignation came after he learned that Taiwan's Food ... ( read original story ...)

In a major change of policy, Japan has decided to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China. This reverses a policy of 49 years, since Tokyo recognised Beijing and cut its diplomatic ties with ... ( read original story ...)

A Chinese magazine has marked the ruling Communist Party’s centenary by releasing a video simulating a military attack on Taiwan following a warning by President Xi that any move to separate the ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy of almost 24 million people located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, even though the two sides have been governed separately for ... ( read original story ...)

As the post-pandemic world will bring new changes to the global political landscape China aggressive internal dictatorship and external expansionism is bound ... ( read original story ...)

China as a digital authoritarian regime, and Taiwan as a digital democracy. Of the two, digital authoritarianism is easier to implement and there is much scholarship focused on defining and ... ( read original story ...)

To evaluate Taiwan’s defenses, ask whether Taipei is asking too much of the armed forces—and whether the armed forces are remaking themselves adequately to cope with today’s brave new world. ( read original story ...)

China among worst countries in human trafficking following its increasing repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet and forced lab ... ( read original story ...)

Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan's Foxconn, along with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reached initial agreements to each buy 5 million doses each of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ... ( read original story ...)

It’s not hard to imagine formations of B-52s quickly laying hundreds or even thousands of mines. Here's What You Need to Know: Mines are enjoying a renaissance of sorts. China steadily is building up ... ( read original story ...)

The billionaire and chip maker have both reached initial agreements to buy 5 million doses, according to sources ... ( read original story ...)

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Robert Seraki Matsebe, head of the Liaison Office of South Africa in Taiwan, take part in MOFA's Friendship Medal of Diplomacy conferment ceremony June 24 in ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan on Friday reported 58 new cases of COVID-19, falling under 100 for the eighth straight day, but 15 more people died of the disease and other cases discovered at a Taipei wholesale market ... ( read original story ...)

The Huannan Market in Taipei's Wanhua District is undergoing a large-scale disinfection of its premises after 41 vendors there tested positive for COVID-19, the city's Market Administration Office ... ( read original story ...)