MATTERS OF TRADE: President Tsai Ing-wen asked new chief representative Kazuyuki Katayama to back Taiwan’s bid to join the CPTPP and other internation
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterNew Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜), the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, yesterday vowed
COMMITMENTS: The US, Japan and South Korea launched new initiatives to ‘counter the threats’ by Pyongyang, an official said as he also referred to pea
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe government remains steadfast in its commitment to facilitating transitional justice and preserving the stories of those pe
By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writerJapanese are more likely to view China as a major threat than Taiwanese, although both sides agree that Beijing’s pow
‘TAIWAN CAN HELP’: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the global law enforcement network to uphold the principles of professionalism and neutra
By Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwanese who have recently traveled to China for tourism, to visit friends
By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporterSeptember’s export expansion was not an isolated incident, but sign of a nascent recovery that would grow more evident
COUNTER DISINFORMATION: More engagement and media literacy are needed to push back against misinformation and claims that the US is an unreliable part
PEACE AND STABILITY: ‘Taiwan can be of tremendous value’ in building resilient supply chains, President Tsai Ing-wen said, as she encouraged closer ti
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter, with CNAFormer vice minister of foreign affairs and top envoy to the EU Alexander Yui (俞大?) has been appointed represen
LOW-KEY: While the DPP and KMT presidential candidates sought to pump up voters at big rallies, the TPP’s Ko Wen-je opted for a smaller meeting with y
‘OPEN TO DIALOGUE’: Her alliance with Vice President William Lai is based on their commitment to preserve the nation’s freedom and democracy, Hsiao Bi
/ By staff writer, with CNATwo leaders of a job scam operation linked to kidnappings and the deaths of three people were sentenced to life in prison,
EXPANSION: Both men agreed Taiwan and Japan should keep improving relations. Meanwhile, TSMC is finishing its fab in Kumamoto, with a possible second
By Pao Chien-hsin / Staff reporter, with CNAThe Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted a diabolo instructor and nine others allegedly
FAMILY FACTOR: A lawmaker said that the Ministry of Labor should propose potential solutions, such as providing more flexible maternity and parental l
‘DANGEROUS INTERFERENCE’: China is ‘co-opting and amplifying the war v peace argument’ in a bid to affect Taiwan’s elections, an academic told ‘Nikkei
By Chung Li-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Executive Yuan yesterday approved a draft act to promote nutrition, which wou
兩名曾駐香港的美國記者,在一本有關香港「反送中」風波的新書中披露,正在獄中的前香港眾志秘書長黃之鋒,在「港版國安法」實施前曾經尋求進入美國駐港總領事館,申請政治庇護,但依據「在美國境外不能申請政治庇護」規定,未獲美方答應。曾駐港的《華盛頓郵報》及《大西洋雜誌》記者馬塔尼(Shibani Mahtan