The Legislative Yuan passed an amendment on Friday last week to add four national holidays and make Workers’ Day a national holiday for all sectors — a move referred to as “four plus one.” The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), who used their combined legislative ma
US President Donald Trump said last week: “I want China to do great. I’m very friendly with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping (習近平)]. I have great respect for him and for China.” Trump believes the way for China to do well is simply to open its markets to US goods. That would be a step in the right di
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) continues to play a vital role in bridging the gap between Taiwan and the West. Her European tour is a clear illustration of this.Her tour to Lithuania, Denmark and the UK clarifies the continued importance of her role in reinforcing Taiwan’s standing in the world
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has 10 compelling reasons to take voter anxiety about immigration deadly seriously: Weekend opinion polls show Reform UK, the insurgent anti-migration party, enjoys an unprecedented 10-point lead over his Labour Party — and that is 10 months after Starmer’s landsl
India and Pakistan have stepped back from the brink of all-out war, with a nudge from the US, but New Delhi’s aspirations as a global diplomatic power now face a key test after US President Donald Trump offered to mediate on the dispute over Kashmir, analysts said. India’s rapid rise as the world’s
A new US-China agreement to pause sky-high tariffs on each other is pressuring manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam and Mexico to make their own, better deals with the US to continue benefiting from a “China-plus-one” strategy by global producers. In the new world order dictated by US President Donald
The central bank might be facing growing pressure from Washington to address Taiwan’s large trade surplus with the US, but a repeat of the sharp appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar as seen in 1985, following the coordinated currency intervention by the US, Japan, Germany, France and the UK under t
Sexually discriminatory and demeaning content was included in a health education question for a midterm exam for ninth-grade students at Jincheng Junior High School in Kinmen County.Were there no guardrails in place to prevent the inclusion of inappropriate questions in an exam for students? Why is
Monday was International Nurses Day, a day that is not dedicated exclusively to professional nurses. Seventy years ago, a group of people who were not nurses — some of whom could not even write their own names — cared for soldiers on the front line. Their contributions were heroic, tragic and touchi
In a week in which nurses are nominally honored, the truth is harder to celebrate. Nurses in Taiwan continue to struggle against a tide of attrition, professional disempowerment and systemic neglect.Taiwan’s nursing programs are among the highest-ranked globally — but that does not mean our bedside
The mass recall movement has been a grueling process: Petition gatherers, who are volunteers, are frequently turned away, often humiliated and even abused by those who disagree with them. Even people who share their stance cannot help but harbor doubts, while the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) trea
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This year’s annual spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank began with quiet fears that US President Donald Trump’s administration would seek to fatally undermine them. They ended with both institutions being sternly rebuked by US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent for their increasing con
For a world that was serious about cutting the quarter of the world’s emissions that come from methane, you would be expecting a boom in electric valve actuators.If your response is, “a what?” you are not alone. But this humdrum piece of equipment is one of the lowest-hanging fruit if we want to rei
US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering rescinding the previous administration’s restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) chip exports, which were set to take effect on Thursday. The White House said that sorting countries into three tiers subject to specific AI-related trade r
As details emerge of Facebook’s collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it is increasingly clear that the political fallout is extending well beyond the US. As a democracy at the forefront of geopolitics, the way Taiwan interacts with technology platforms, the importance it attaches to
President William Lai (賴清德) recently attended an event in Taipei marking the end of World War II in Europe, emphasizing in his speech: “Using force to invade another country is an unjust act and will ultimately fail.” In just a few words, he captured the core values of the postwar international orde
Sovereignty a daily practiceI read with great interest Teo Hsia’s article (“Taiwan should learn from Canada,” May 6, page 8) comparing Taiwan’s situation with Canada’s. I strongly agree with the core message: Taiwan must stand firm in the face of external pressure. In recent years, the Chinese Commu
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