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Taiwan Expo’s 8th Outing to Malaysia: AI and Healthcare lead the way in Showcasing Taiwan’s Smart Innovations
Daily Express Malaysia
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June 24, 2025
Taiwan Expo’s 8th Outing to Malaysia: AI and Healthcare lead the way in Showcasing Taiwan’s Smart Innovations Published on: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Published on: Tue, Jun 24, 2025 Text Size: Dark Mode: Off This year’s Taiwan Expo highlights AI...
Taiwan detects 12 Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels near its territory
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 24, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], June 24 (ANI): Taiwan's Minister of National Defence (MND) detected 12 sorties of PLA aircraft and seven PLAN vessels around its territory on Tuesday. According to Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND), the aircraft vessels...
Taiwan’s Lai Risks DPP Factional Infighting in Bid for Control
The Jamestown Foundation
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Executive Summary: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has jettisoned a Tsai Ing-wen era formula designed to keep peace between factions within the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and has actively advanced his own New Tide faction. Lai’s more...
Taiwan-based tech innovators eye expansion in Malaysian market
The Sun Daily
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June 23, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: Taiwan-based tech innovators Datavideo Technologies (S) Pte Ltd and Jian Ling Technology Co Ltd are eyeing expansion in the Malaysian market. At Taiwan Expo 2025, Datavideo Technologies managing director (Asia-Pacific) Frank YC Lin...
Taiwan: Alzheimer's drug seeks inclusion in NHI coverage
Asia Insurance Review
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One of the two recently approved Alzheimer's drugs has been submitted for coverage under the National Health Insurance (NHI) programme and could be considered for inclusion by the end of the year, National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA)...
Meet 10 sexy men from gay-friendly Taipei
Out Magazine
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June 23, 2025
The Men of Elska Taipei Taipei, Taiwan Courtesy Elska Magazine The latest book in the Elska series, a project dedicated to exploring the world and its men through a gay lens, has put its spotlight on Taipei. Inside, readers can get to know a...
Driven by Innovation Taiwan Excellence Showcases Future Lifestyle
Daily Express Malaysia
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June 24, 2025
Driven by Innovation Taiwan Excellence Showcases Future Lifestyle Published on: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Published on: Tue, Jun 24, 2025 Text Size: Dark Mode: Off Kuala Lumpur: Taiwan Excellence has long served as the internationally recognized mark...
Maris Racal starrer ‘Sunshine’ opens 27th Taipei Film Festival
Manila Standard
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June 23, 2025
Filipino coming-of-age film “Sunshine” opened the 27th Taipei Film Festival, with lead actress Maris Racal and director Antoinette Jadaone attending the premiere. On Saturday, production company Project 8 Projects shared a series of photos on...
The Drone Swarm Paradox in the Taiwan Strait
The Diplomat
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June 23, 2025
The convergence of three critical timelines in 2025 reveals a dangerous paradox at the heart of cross-strait stability. Just as the U.S. Navy’s initial iteration of its “hellscape” drone swarms is expected to become operational this August,...
Restraining China’s Chip Rise, Partnering with Taiwan for Global Stability
China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE)
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June 24, 2025
Under President Biden, the United States has advanced its “small yard, high fence” strategy to curb China’s progress in advanced semiconductor manufacturing. This approach relies heavily on export controls targeting critical chip technologies. Key...
Can Taiwan Build the World’s Best Drone Industry?
Asume Tech
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June 23, 2025
In recent years, drones have fundamentally transformed modern warfare, serving as pivotal tools in conflicts around the globe. Countries such as Ukraine, Iran, and Azerbaijan have increasingly relied on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance...
The US-China Perilous Dance over Taiwan
Pakistan Today
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June 23, 2025
Michael E. O’Hanlon’s 2024 Brookings report starkly frames a question that haunts the Indo-Pacific and the world: Could the USA and China go to war over Taiwan and if so, who would prevail? His analysis, centred on a potential Chinese blockade as...
‘Taiwan sensibility’ highlighted in Seoul book fair 「台灣感性」驚艷首爾國際書展
Taipei Times
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June 23, 2025
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...
Should Taiwan worry about the US being bogged down in the Mideast again?
South China Morning Post
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June 23, 2025
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...
Tinubu’s campaign promises and Taiwan
The Cable
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June 23, 2025
“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
Philstar
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June 23, 2025
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...
Donovan’s Deep Dives: Weighing Taiwan’s political parties in times of peril
Taipei Times
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June 23, 2025
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...
Europe, Taiwan amid global chaos
Taipei Times
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June 23, 2025
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...
Taiwan's Lai Xiang-chen joins German pro volleyball team
Taipei Times
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June 22, 2025
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...
Taiwan Prepares for Future Without America
theTrumpet
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The Taiwanese are no longer counting on the United States to help defend them in the event of an attack by China, the Economist wrote on June 11. For decades, Taiwan’s calculation has been that if it can survive Chinese blockades, bombardments and...