Environmentalists largely approve of the closure.

The incident highlights problems aboard Taiwan's distant water fishing vessels, which NGOs say operate in an unregulated, lawless environment.

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Only about 1 in 5 babies were delivered in medical facilities.

Targeting East Asians for naturalization could be a first step to wider acceptance of immigration.

Rianne, 20, first traveled from the Netherlands to Taiwan to meet her biological family face-to-face in 2016. She had already established Facebook contact for a couple of years, leading to a feeling of genuine kinship.

Emma, 27, now sees Taiwan as her second home. At the age of 20 she visited for the first time and since then she has returned every year.

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Myanmar is becoming a forceful example of how unrestrained social media can polarize opinion and damage democracy.

South Vietnam ended as a political entity in 1975, but cultural differences continue to reverberate throughout Vietnamese society.

Their new owner, Malaysia-based ASIA PR, has close ties to Cambodia's ruling elite.

AI-inspired Peppa content pushed an online publishing platform into deep water in China, but the headlines missed a deeper argument over whether the state can or should rule on what media people consume.