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Taiwan's exports likely fell 0.22% in July, down for a fifth straight month though at a slower pace as the COVID-19 pandemic hit global demand for the island's electronic goods, according to the ... ( read original story ...)

China's new security law has cast a threatening shadow over Hong Kong's dynamic book industry, with anxious publishers combing through back catalogues for potentially "subversive" material, and ... ( read original story ...)

Vestas has secured an agreement with Vena Energy to service its 54 MW Gamesa turbines at Pililla Wind Project in Philippines. The agreement is Vestas' first full scope multi-brand service deal in the ... ( read original story ...)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown his regime’s real intentions. By changing the constitution to allow him to remain in office until 2036 and incorporating conservative new language, it has ... ( read original story ...)

GeneSystems, Inc. is proud to announce that in partnership with Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, the largest hospital in Taiwan, it has won the 2020 Taipei Biotech “Technology Transfer Cooperation ... ( read original story ...)

American lawmakers have introduced a flurry of bills in the past two years to improve Taiwan’s defenses and raise its international exposure as legislators backed by  President Donald Trump step up ... ( read original story ...)

The government is considering tightening mask-wearing rules again in light of a potential domestic COVID-19 infection, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday. The Central ... ( read original story ...)

Octogenarian laundry owners amass nearly 600,000 followers with attitude-filled fashion portraits ... ( read original story ...)

Pacita Abad is the Filipino artist who was honored with a Google Doodle on July 31. Abad was born in Basco, Batanes, an island in the South China Sea in 1946. The island is located between Luzon and ... ( read original story ...)

The neglected basement of this Taipei apartment has been overhauled by KC Design Studio to feature a series of greyscale rooms and an indoor courtyard. ( read original story ...)

The Taiwanese government on Friday said it will hold a state funeral for former President Lee Teng-hui, a figure respected on the island for ending autocratic rule but branded by mainland Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

Its first popularly elected president, he transformed a police state into a vibrant country while angering Beijing by insisting that Taiwan be treated as a sovereign state. ( read original story ...)

Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, dubbed “Mr. Democracy” for burying autocratic rule in favour of freewheeling pluralism, died at the age of 97, the official Central ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, July 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan's ruling party on Thursday urged the China and Hong governments to stop the "oppression" of people in the city following the disqualification of election ... ( read original story ...)

Australia granted “major project status” to an ambitious A$22 billion (US$15.8 billion) plan to export power from a giant solar farm in the country’s north to Southeast Asia via undersea cable. The ... ( read original story ...)