If forty years of improving ties culminate in threats to wipe out your negotiating partner’s political existence, you shudder to think how forty years of deteriorating ties across the Taiwan Strait ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan hit by triple blow of drought, blackouts and COVID surge
The calm of a sunny May afternoon in Taiwan was broken by a crescendo of smartphones buzzing due to a national emergency alert. Electricity blackouts were coming due to a malfunction at a power plant ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan denied access to WHA observer role
The 74th World Health Assembly, or WHA, approved on Monday a recommendation by its general committee not to include the proposal by a few countries for China's Taiwan to be an observer in the WHA ... ( read original story ...)
Global chips supply is in danger unless Taiwan gets vaccines
Back in February, as the world was beating a path to Taiwan’s door for help to tackle a shortage of semiconductors, the health minister got into a scrap with China over Covid-19 vaccines. ( read original story ...)
Vaccine shortage in Taiwan threatens semiconductor supply
By shunning doses from China, Taiwan is boosting incentives for other countries to invest in semiconductor production, imperiling its competitive edge ... ( read original story ...)
Global supply of computer chips in danger unless Taiwan gets vaccines
Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the Taiwanese government now faces a health emergency — only about 1% of its population is ... ( read original story ...)
Global supply of chips is in danger unless Taiwan gets vaccines
Taiwan is paying the price for a lack of vaccines, with a surge in virus cases that threatens to trigger a lockdown. Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the government now faces a ... ( read original story ...)
World’s supply of chips is in danger unless Taiwan gets Covid-19 vaccines
The Covid-19 situation in Taiwan has a potential to disrupt the chip industry that dominates the local economy,. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Marriage equality gains support
Attitudes toward gender equality have continued to improve, especially toward marriage equality, with more than 60 percent of people now agreeing that same-sex couples should have the right to marry, ... ( read original story ...)
InspirMed Highlights Encouraging Data on ISPM21 and ISPM19 – Inhalable Liposome Formulations of Antiviral Drugs for COVID-19
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InspirMed Inc., a subsidiary of TLC (Nasdaq: TLC, TWO: 4152) that specializes in the development of proprietary ... ( read original story ...)
US, S. Korea agree to cooperate on Taiwan Strait issue
The United States and South Korea have agreed to cooperate on the Taiwan Strait issue, amid rising tensions in the 180-km wide waterways. ( read original story ...)
Phones also need to be disinfected
Taiwan’s number of COVID-19 cases has increased over the past week. The government’s prevention information strongly promotes masks and hand hygiene, and recommends that alcohol sanitizers or other ... ( read original story ...)
How Myanmar’s military took hold of the telecommunications sector to spy on citizens
In the months before the Myanmar military’s Feb. 1 coup, the country’s telecom and Internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdrop on the ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Fosun says it is willing to provide BioNTech vaccines to Taiwan
China's Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd is willing to provide Taiwan with BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, its chairman Wu Yifang told ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Virus Cases Hold Near Peak as People Told to Stay Home
Taiwan’s new coronavirus cases exceeded 300 for a sixth day as authorities pleaded for people to stay at home to help contain an outbreak. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan might hold the key to building back better in a post-pandemic world
Taiwan produces 80% of the world’s microchips and semi-conductors and is considered to be years ahead of both China and the US in terms of chip-manufacturing capabilities ... ( read original story ...)