Can Taiwan Build the World’s Best Drone Industry?

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Taiwan Prepares for Future Without America

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...

Taiwan Expo 2025 Bridges 'Made In Taiwan' Products With Malaysia's Needs -- Taitra

By Durratul Ain Ahmad Fuad KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (Bernama) -- The Taiwan Excellence Pavilion at Taiwan Expo 2025 serves as a “bridge” connecting Taiwan’s top innovations with Malaysia’s key growth areas, particularly in digital transformation and...

Taiwan Jobless Rate Falls To 3.34%

The unemployment rate in Taiwan dropped marginally in May, the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics reported Monday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate came in at 3.34 percent in May versus 3.36 percent in April. In the...

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...

Taiwan Expo 2025, largest edition in series, showcases latest innovations

KUALA LUMPUR: Taiwan Expo 2025, the largest edition in the series to date, has commenced at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, with artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare technologies taking centre stage. Organised under Taiwan’s flagship...

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...

Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late

In the span of just a few years, drones have become instrumental in warfare. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, and elsewhere have shown how autonomous vehicles have become a quintessential part of modern combat. It’s a fact that...

Japanese civilian shelter to be on island near Taiwan by 2027

TOKYO -- The Japanese government will set up the country's first long-stay evacuation shelter on an island near Taiwan by the end of fiscal 2027 amid growing concern over tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Construction of the first shelter that is...

Taiwan shares end sharply down after U.S. bombs Iran

Taipei, June 23 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan took a beating Monday as investor sentiment was spooked by the United States' bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend, which raised concerns over political tensions in the Middle East, dealers...

Taiwan pole vault prospect Ren Chun-ying takes gold at Thailand Open

Taipei, June 23 (CNA) Taiwan's Ren Chun-ying (任純瑩) recorded a personal best to bag a gold medal in the women's pole vault at the 2025 Thailand Open Track & Field Championships on Sunday. Ren emerged victorious from among eight competitors in her...

Chinese mainland slams Lai over 'Taiwan independence' fallacy

File photo of Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a press briefing in Beijing, China. /VCG File photo of Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a press briefing...