One of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship programs in Indonesia is initiating a free nutritious lunch (MBG) program for elementary and middle-school students. The policy has drawn sharp criticism due to the cost. Based on a 2017 report from the World Food Programme (WFP), school lunch
China’s partnership with Pakistan has long served as a key instrument in Beijing’s efforts to unsettle India. While official narratives frame the two nations’ alliance as one of economic cooperation and regional stability, the underlying strategy suggests a deliberate attempt to check India’s rise t
Driving across an intersection the other day, I almost collided with a motorcycle deliveryman, who suddenly appeared from the side at high speed and passed only half a meter away from my car. Had I not braked immediately, I would have been hit on the spot. It was a good thing that it was I driving,
Learning from immersionLearning a new language can be a slow, academic grind — flashcards, grammar drills and vocabulary memorization. However, when you are surrounded by the language every day — when it becomes your tool for survival — something incredible happens. I moved to Taiwan in 2021. Formal
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Many Americans have never heard of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). However, for decades, hundreds of millions of people around the world have relied on the outlets that USAGM funds — including Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the Middle East Broadcasting Netw
Singapore’s democracy is maturing. About 2.8 million voters are to elect their next government tomorrow. Political discourse during the nine-day campaign has been notably robust, a positive sign for a nation that has been governed by a single party since its independence from Malaysia in 1965. At ra
Sydney non-profit worker Az Fahmi was once a dedicated volunteer for Australia’s ruling Labor Party, handing out pamphlets to get her local representative, Australian Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke, re-elected.That all changed for the human rights activist following Israel’s retaliation for an
Taiwan People’s Party Legislator-at-large Liu Shu-pin (劉書彬) asked Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) a question on Tuesday last week about President William Lai’s (賴清德) decision in March to officially define the People’s Republic of China (PRC), as governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as a foreign
The Food and Drug Administration has permanently removed its recommendation that companies conduct tests on animals to establish bone health claims for marketing food and beverage products sold in Taiwan. This is the fifth health claim regulation that the agency has scrapped clean of animal tests. C
The “426 Rally” that took place in Taipei on Saturday last week — branded with slogans such as: “fight green communism, resist dictatorship” — offered a striking window into the current political atmosphere in Taiwan. Organized by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TP
Over the past few months, spontaneous protests have been occurring frequently across Taiwan — whether calling to question the serious ambiguity of the relationship between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or raising concerns over shifts in the opposition’s p
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Eighty years ago this August, the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of people. Those acts helped to end World War II, but also ushered in the nuclear age.Today, a new atomic arms race is stirring, this time not provoked by Russia, China or North Korea — who have been rampin
How does an escalating US-China trade war affect people’s well-being. In China, it depends on whom you ask. Some are energized by the fight. Electric-vehicle makers are in hyperdrive, pushing out luxury new models, self-driving features and battery-charging technologies that allow drivers to recharg
In his victory speech early on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted little time calling for a dramatic reshaping of his government’s relationship with the US, saying that threats from US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Canada’s ability to function as a “free, sovereig, and ambiti
As US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies create uncertainty for the global economy and disrupt the established trade order, Taiwanese companies are focusing on what they can control — recalibrating their overseas expansion plans and accelerating internal innovation efforts to pursue new regene
On April 19, former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) gave a public speech, his first in about 17 years. During the address at the Ketagalan Institute in Taipei, Chen’s words were vague and his tone was sour. He said that democracy should not be used as an echo chamber for a single politician, that peo
Taiwanese have launched a major recall movement to remove pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) legislators from office, with slogans such as “resist communism, protect Taiwan” echoing throughout every corner of the nation. On April 19, a rally against China’s “united front” efforts organized by YouTube
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