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Ineligible for pandemic subsidies, foreign teachers in Taiwan feeling abandoned

TAIPEI — (Taiwan News) — As the Taiwanese government cautiously reopens its economy after more than two months of restrictions aimed at tackling the COVID-19 outbreak, foreign workers, and...

China mulls moves in Afghanistan following retreat of West

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Although 210 of its nationals were evacuated from Afghanistan on Friday (July 11), China is beefing up its influence in the Central Asian nation following the withdrawal o...

Interactive map shows companies that pollute Taipei's Tamsui River

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An investigation showed that in 2020, at least 126 companies were polluting the Tamsui River, the longest river in northern Taiwan, with total fines surpassing NT$12 milli...

Five Asian countries to face tremendous losses if insistent on coal plants: report

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The latest report from Carbon Tracker reveals a future in which the investment in coal power plants is deemed economically and environmentally unviable, and five Asian cou...

China among worst countries in US human trafficking report

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S Department of State released its 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Thursday (July 1), revealing a worrying overview of global human trafficking. Count...

Hongkongers mourn man who attacked police and killed himself

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Police in Hong Kong were frisking passersby on Friday (July 2) and preventing people from paying their respects to a man who killed himself after attacking an officer. ...

Taiwan companies pioneer products made of recycled marine debris

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's Plastics Industry Development Center (PIDC) is creating a robust ecosystem in which recycled products are not only attractive but profitable. As the engine...

Hong Kong's Apple Daily staff should get a medal, says US senator

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. Senator Ben Sasse has introduced a bill proposing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the staff of Apple Daily after the Hong Kong newspaper was forced to shut d...

China passes Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China's National People's Congress passed the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law on Thursday (June 10), providing legal grounds for the Chinese government to force any ind...

Vaccine distrust contributes to Japan's AZ donation to Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — While Japan's donation of 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to Taiwan demonstrates the close ties between the two nations, it also highlights the ...

Taiwan hosts only Tiananmen Square Massacre memorial in Chinese-speaking world

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwanese marked the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre Friday (June 4), and as a precaution against the nation's raging COVID outbreak, this year's...

Local governments enforcing responsible fishery in Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Through innovation, recycling, and registration, local authorities are making fishery — one of the oldest economic activities in the country — sustainable. ...

Photos of the Day: China's wolf-warrior diplomacy

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — From the discharge of water from the Fukushima reactor to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Chinese officials are sharing their opinions loudly and with graphics on social m...

Detained Australian journalist in China warned family should not raise her case

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Australian journalist and CGTN news anchor Cheng Lei (成蕾), who was detained in China last August for allegedly leaking national secrets, has met virtually with Australian ...

Taiwanese researcher popularizes science with literature

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — "The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry." A longing to write haunted American poet laureate Billy Collins, but it has also guid...