Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on Sept. 13 announced that the party had launched an independent whistle-blower platform to report corruption in their ranks. Just one day later, the accounting firm that was supposed to operate the system terminated its agreement with the TPP, in
Upon Russia’s abrupt, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Taiwan displayed great empathy and sympathy with Ukraine. Taipei immediately announced economic sanctions against Moscow, and Taiwanese expressed solidarity, with protesters gathering outside Russia’s representative office i
A fire and subsequent explosions at Launch Technologies Co’s (明揚國際) golf ball factory at Pingtung Technology Industrial Park (屏東科技產業園區) on Friday killed at least nine people, prompting questions over how such a catastrophe could have occurred.Despite how near Pingtung is to Kaohsiung, the industries
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Migration could be “a dissolving force for the European Union” due to deep cultural differences between European countries and their long-term inability to reach a common policy, the EU’s most senior diplomat has said.Although Russia would try to fan the flames on migration inside Europe, EU High Re
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to end the deal that allowed Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain by sea is working for him. It has blown a hole in his enemy’s economy and driven a wedge between close allies, all without costing Russia support in the so-called Global South.That
The US Federal Reserve and Taiwan’s central bank unveiled their latest monetary policy decisions last week. Key interest rates remained unchanged from their previous policy meetings and were in line with market expectations. Interestingly, investors said that the remarks made to the media by US Fed
For Xi Jinping (習近平) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the military conquest of Taiwan is an absolute requirement for the CCP’s much more fantastic ambition: control over our solar system.Controlling Taiwan will allow the CCP to dominate the First Island Chain and to better neutralize the Phili
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, and owner of social media platform X, has been slammed for his remark regarding cross-strait relations. Musk recently said that “Their [Beijing’s] policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something lik
New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate, has vowed that if elected, he would return compulsory military service to four months, while his political party has a track record of blocking arms deals with the US. In an English-language article t
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Following the latest G20 summit held in New Delhi earlier this month, there is no longer any doubt about India’s central position in global power politics, but questions about the G20 itself are gaining traction.India’s achievement with this G20 is indisputable. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
It is the separatist movement most people have never heard of, but it is at the heart of the very public India-Canada spat ignited by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations that India is behind the assassination of a Sikh activist in British Columbia — charges New Delhi firmly denies.
It seems that debates about priority seats on public transportation are stirred up every few years, whenever a video clip or post about confrontation over priority seats goes viral online and sparks social media uproar, but even as many policies aimed to resolve the issue are implemented, the contro
India and Taiwan do not have offical diplomatic relations, hence any traditional or direct security ties between the two countries are implausible. The China factor looms large over their relations like the sword of Damocles, but it is this same sword that puts them in accord. Recently, China warned
At the end of March, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), along with a few securities and futures agencies, released the Corporate Governance 4.0: Sustainable Development Action Plan. In this document, gender equality is highlighted as one of the main criteria for companies in Taiwan. The pla
Diamonds and dirty secretsFormer Hsinchu deputy mayor Tsai Li-Ching (蔡麗清) was forced to resign in the most humiliating manner, suggesting that she had failed to fulfill Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao’s (高虹安) “political and personal expectations.”Kao had been hoping that Tsai could reveal Hsinchu Baseball Sta
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Global tech giants are falling short on pledges to rein in and combat climate misinformation on their platforms, according to a new report calling for more political will to act on measures to curb the “spread of lies” that threaten climate action.Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), a coal
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