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‘Taiwan sensibility’ highlighted in Seoul book fair 「台灣感性」驚艷首爾國際書展

The 2025 Seoul International Book Fair was held from June 18 to 22 at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea. This year, participants from 17 countries attended, with over 530 publishing houses and related organizations...

Taiwan's Lai Xiang-chen joins German pro volleyball team

Lai Xiang-chen has become the first Taiwanese woman to be signed to a professional volleyball team in Germany. VfB Suhl LOTTO Thuringen yesterday announced Lai's signing on its Web site and Instagram, saying that it was pleased to add the...

Donovan’s Deep Dives: Weighing Taiwan’s political parties in times of peril

With the main players beset with challenges, who is in a good position to handle the looming turmoil and uncertainty? This year will go down in the history books. Taiwan faces enormous turmoil and uncertainty in the coming months. Which political...

Tinubu’s campaign promises and Taiwan

“I will work with businessmen and women and encourage them to make the South-East the Taiwan of Africa.” Bola Tinubu (November 24, 2022) As President Bola Tinubu reached halfway into his presidential term on May 29, 2025, the campaign promise...

SB19 brings P-pop power to Taiwan stage

SB19 once again gained international attention with their show-stopping guest performance at the 2025 Hito Music Awards in Taiwan. The group set the stage ablaze with powerful performances of their hit tracks DAM, DUNGKA! and GENTO. In a special...

Should Taiwan worry about the US being bogged down in the Mideast again?

A US war in the Middle East could leave its armed forces stretched too thin to respond swiftly to a Taiwan Strait crisis, analysts on the island warned after the US launched multiple precision strikes on nuclear-related sites in Iran on the...

Europe, Taiwan amid global chaos

In a world increasingly defined by unpredictability, two actors stand out as islands of stability: Europe and Taiwan. One, a sprawling union of democracies, but under immense pressure, grappling with a geopolitical reality it was not originally...

Beijing’s ‘massive’ build-up raises threat of Taiwan Strait conflict: Nato chief

China slams Taiwan leader over ‘country’ speech: state media

BEIJING: China on Monday slammed Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te over a speech in which he said the island was “clearly a country”, saying his “fallacies” would be “swept into the dustbin of history”, state media reported. Lai, a staunch defender...

10 arrested in Taiwan over counterfeit goods on Shopee

Ten people have been detained in connection with a scheme that used rented accounts on Shopee, a Singapore-based e-commerce platform, to sell over NT$300 million (US$10 million) in counterfeit goods from China in Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation...