In 1935, the German Reich led by the National Socialist Party officially created the Nuremberg Race Laws, a “legal cage”, for German Jews, stripping them of citizenship, criminalizing their personal relationships, barring them from public life, and transforming them into stateless subjects and isola
Nigel P. Daly’s recent article, “Taiwan wants bilingual, artificial intelligence-ready graduates — but tests for yesteryear,” (June 3, page 12) highlighted a challenge at the heart of Taiwan’s education system. We are asking schools to cultivate creative, critical thinkers for an AI-driven global ec
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No one knows whether AI will trigger a white-collar jobpocalypse. The loudest warnings still come from people building and selling the technology, whose predictions often double as hype-mongering or cover for unrelated cost-cutting with investor-friendly language. Think-tank and analyst forecasts ar
At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pressed the US’ Asian allies to spend 3.5 percent of their GDP on defense, fueling anxiety across the region and beyond. His brow-beating call to arms might well bring about a regional defense build-up on a scale un
With grim inevitability, Elon Musk’s mission to stoke racial division has been playing out in scenes of riots on British streets. The spark for recent unrest in Southampton, a port city in southern England, was the murder of a young white teenager who died in police handcuffs after his Sikh killer f
The Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore provides an annual snapshot of evolving regional security concerns. At the 2024 forum, then-US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin spoke of a “new convergence,” envisioning a network of alliances incorporating Japan, South Korea, India, the Philippin
In the grand, circular choreography of the traditional East Asian calendar, the ninth act arrives around June 5, bringing with it a sense of urgency — both atmospheric and agricultural. The solar term is known as mangzhong (芒種). For the uninitiated, the name is a linguistic pivot; for the farmer, it
At the Computex Taipei expo on Tuesday, President William Lai (賴清德) told a hall of technology executives that the most responsible thing Taiwan could do for global supply chains was to keep the political “status quo” intact. It was meant as reassurance, but it read as a confession of dependence, run
At the Shenshuping Panda Base in China, Kang Cheol-won called to Fu Bao, the panda he helped raise from birth in South Korea. The panda recognized his voice and approached. The moment was brief, yet it carried unusual force: It showed that care can leave a memory, even across species, places and pol
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The promise and peril of soccer diplomacy during the soccer World Cup that starts on June 11 were already on display in December, during the draw that took place in Washington’s Trump Kennedy Center. Three world leaders shared the stage, representing the tournament’s co-hosts in this first-ever trin
When Google announced radical changes to its search tool that would overshadow the page of blue links we have been used to seeing for more than a decade, online advertisers had something of a collective freak-out. The Alphabet Inc-owned company called it the biggest shift in more than 25 years, expl
The government’s efforts to tackle the nation’s declining birthrate have seen a small victory, as just over half of the applications for flexible parental leave last month were submitted by men. Implemented on Jan. 1 as part of the “child-friendly workplace” policy, the flexible parental leave progr
In the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) short-form video platforms and social media apps have become increasingly popular in Taiwan, to the point where even everyday vocabulary is gradually being assimilated. If Taiwanese fail to remain vigilant in the face of this subtle cultural
The bringing forward of new mandates for nurse-to-patient ratios to be enacted in May next year should represent a turning point for the chronically overstretched profession. However, not long after the legislation’s fast-tracking was announced, a number of leading medical centers began floating the
A student at Taoyuan Municipal Wuling High School was recently subjected to relentless online public shaming by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taoyuan City Councilor Chan Chiang-tsun (詹江村) for jokingly referring to Taoyuan Mayor Simon Chang (張善政) as the “Mayor of Sindian” at the school’s graduation
The longer the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation crisis goes on, the more intense it becomes, with former aides, associates and relatives of former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) all offering conflicting accounts and allegations. To outsiders, the situation remains unclear. Some statements regarding Ma’s commen
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