President William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced a plan to invest an additional NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.8 billion) in military spending to procure advanced defense systems over the next ...

Filming for a documentary to commemorate the legacy of women’s rights activist Peng Wan-ru (彭婉如), called A Journey in Search of Wan-ru’s Footsteps (尋找婉如足跡之旅), is under way, the Democratic Progressive ...

President William Lai’s (賴清德) historic announcement on Wednesday, Nov. 26, of a supplemental defense budget valued in excess of US$40 billion is a testament to the seriousness with which Taiwan is ...

Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a four-day trip to Turkey yesterday after a warm welcome by its tiny Christian community, before heading to Lebanon with a message of peace for the crisis-mired nation. On his ...

The subclade K variant of the influenza A (H3N2) virus was reported by the Centers for Disease Control yesterday as the dominant flu strain in many countries, adding that flu vaccines were still ...

Thousands of demonstrators, including Catholic Church clergy, protested in the Philippines yesterday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption ...

Micron Technology Inc is to spend ￥1.5 trillion (US$9.6 billion) to build a plant in western Japan to make memory chips for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the Nikkei reported on Saturday.

Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) is to brief the Legislative Yuan today on the Ministry of National Defense’s plans to increase specialty pay for drone operators, cyberwarfare, air ...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling that sentenced a man in Tainan to 20 years in prison for killing his bedridden mother who had dementia. The ruling was final. The court filing said the ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is building large-scale military infrastructure at five sites along the eastern coast of China, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said in a recent report. The latest ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday made a major intervention into Honduran politics days before the country’s presidential election, pardoning a convicted ex-leader and threatening to cut US support ...

Gerrit van der Wees is a former Dutch diplomat who teaches the history of Taiwan and US relations with East Asia at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.