Property scandal roils S Korea as home prices soar

Accusations that officials at South Korea’s state housing corporation tried to use insider information to cash in on runaway property prices has thrown new fuel on an issue that is draining support ... ( read original story ...)

White House: US Stance on Taiwan Remains the Same

The administration of President Joe Biden is brushing off a fresh warning from China that is calling for a change of policy toward Taiwan. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, says Washington needs to ... ( read original story ...)

Tsai tells women to ‘be whoever they want to be’

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday encouraged women to become whoever they want to be, while expressing her hope that the media would stop using the term “strong women” to describe those with ... ( read original story ...)

Start-up transforming carbon dioxide into stone

A start-up in Iceland is tackling a key piece of the climate change puzzle by turning carbon dioxide into rocks, allowing the greenhouse gas to be stored forever instead of escaping into the ... ( read original story ...)

Biden appoints professor with Taiwanese roots

Tim Wu (吳修銘), a second-generation Taiwanese American, was on Friday named by US President Joe Biden as his special assistant for technology and competition policy, which is expected to impose more ... ( read original story ...)

Cooperation needed to stop house hoarding

Statistics compiled by the Fiscal Information Agency showed that from 2013 to 2019, the number of people who together with their spouse and minor children own four or more residential properties rose ... ( read original story ...)