Four food trucks offering delicacies from three of Taiwan's allies in Central America converged in Taipei on Sunday, on the final leg of a nationwide tour that lasted nine weeks, according to the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s ‘Squid Game’: what it’s like to go through the country’s strict quarantine process
The Telegraph's Asia Correspondent experiences one of the last remaining outposts to require quarantine for all international arrivals ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Steps Up Military Exercises And Arms Purchases To Deter China Attack
Soon after China held military drills in the waters around Taiwan, the latter retaliated by holding military exercises with all the three wings of its armed forces and the coast guard. The Taiwanese ... ( read original story ...)
Scuffles over Taiwan law change to clear former president Chen Shui-bian of state fund corruption charges
Taiwan’s legislature has paved the way for corruption charges against a former president to be dropped, passing an amendment to a bill amid scuffles among lawmakers on Monday. Lawmakers from the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s insurers brace for over US$1 billion in Covid-related claims amid outbreak
Taiwan’s worst Covid-19 outbreak has left the island’s insurers bracing for more than US$1 billion in claims that the financial regulator is urging them to honour. The head of the Financial ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan legislature erupts in violence over ‘secret expenses’ bill
KMT lawmakers try to block bill they say could be used to overturn ex-President Chen Shui-bian’s corruption conviction. ( read original story ...)
Family history a burden or asset? Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson to run for Taipei mayor
Kuomintang legislator Wayne Chiang Wan-an, 43, currently serves as a legislator in Taiwan’s parliament. His great grandfather is seen as a ‘dictator’ by some & a ‘hero’ by others. ( read original story ...)
Brian Mast calls out Biden’s foreign policy on Taiwan: It is ‘just uncertainty’
Florida lawmaker Rep. Brian Mast slammed President Biden’s Taiwan comments and the White House's subsequent cleanup of the comments. ( read original story ...)
Covid-19 in Taiwan: Insurers brace for over $1 bn in payout amid outbreak
Insurers are looking to limit their losses on policies after underestimating the extent of the Convid-19 cases in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Taipei digital school soon to open for applications
The Taipei City Government’s first digital experimental high school would soon begin taking applications for the 2022-2023 academic year, the Taipei Department of Education said on Saturday. An online ... ( read original story ...)
Excluding Taiwan from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is a mistake
What, then, is IPEF? The answer largely rests on whether the U.S. continues to exclude Taiwan from joining. First, the background. IPEF debuted with 13 members, including the U.S., Australia ... ( read original story ...)
To deter China on Taiwan, Biden needs to reassure
Biden changed U.S. policy, seemingly off the cuff. But deterring China from invading Taiwan will take more than what he's done so far. ( read original story ...)
GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney: President Biden Is Right Than U.S. Needs To Be Really Clear That We Will Defend Taiwan
Republican New York Rep. Claudia Tenney talks to FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures" about President Biden pledging out loud this week in Japan that the U.S. intends to defend Taiwan more directly than ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan drops GDP prediction for current year
Taiwan dropped its GDP expansion prediction for 2022 by 0.51 percentage points to 3.91 percent against its earlier prediction. Based on ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s consumer confidence plunges in May
The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) of Taiwan declined by 7.07 points year on year to 67.81 points in May, a two-year low, according to a latest survey released by the Research Center for Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan: From Strategic Ambiguity To Strategic Incoherence
China is becoming“more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad”, according to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. Blinken made a maj ... ( read original story ...)