An incident at a college basketball game involving a Sengalese-Taiwanese player being called the N-word by a member of the opposing led to strong reactions earlier this month, including comments by Premier Su Tseng-chang, who stated that racial discrimination was unacceptable in Taiwan...
KMT legislator Alex Fai accused Facebook of interfering in Taiwanese politics after the Facebook account of Pan Chong-cheng, the convenor of the current referendum on the construction of a liquified gas terminal off the coast of Datan District, Taoyuan, was briefly suspended from the social media website...
Indigenous activists held an overnight sleep-in outside of the Judicial Yuan yesterday night, with a hearing scheduled to take place on the Tama Talum case today...
US president Joe Biden announced a 100-day review of US supply chains last month, in the hopes of locating points of economic dependency on China. This will include evaluating supply chains for microchips, rare earth metals, pharmaceuticals, batteries for electric cars, and other items...
The Chinese government surprised last Friday after announcing a ban on imports of Taiwanese pineapples. China is a major market of pineapple exports for Taiwan, constituting 95.2% of pineapple exports at a value of 155.23 million USD between 2018 and 2020...
Chinese president Xi Jinping spoke with newly inaugurated American president Joe Biden by telephone over the Lunar New Year in the first telephone call between the American and Chinese presidents to take place since the Biden administration came to power...
Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated during a radio interview with Hit FM this afternoon that plans to purchase five million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had possibly been blocked because of Chinese government interference...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, has been increasingly questioned on the timeline for vaccine availability in past weeks...