2023/03/29 |
Japan Feels the Pinch As Fertilizer Costs Soar Thanks to Russia’s War
Russia’s war in Ukraine disrupted the flow of resources like natural gas, on which the production of chemical fertilizers relies heavily.
2023/03/27 |
Taiwan Tensions Fuel Anxiety on Japan’s Tiny Yonaguni Island
Yonaguni is the westernmost in a series of small Japanese islands, known as Yaeyama, that are gradually being transformed into a key line of defense as Japan embarks on its biggest military buildup since World War II.
2023/02/06 | Sponsored
Feel the magic of space and let yourself be touched – we step into Chi Po-lin Museum
The exhibition of the Chi Po-lin Museum, “The City, The Flâneur,” explores the texture of cities “from a bird's-eye view”, narrating the beauty and sorrow of cities. The Chi Po-lin Museum was inaugurated in April 2019 and already hosted three exhibitions, “View Above Mountains,” “Above The Coast,” and “Reflection of Rivers” consecutively. They have accumulated nearly 60 thousand visits.
2023/03/23 |
Chinese Capital’s Population Declines for First Time Since 2003
In January, China announced it had entered an “era of negative population growth,” after figures showed a historic drop in the number of people for the first time in six decades.
2023/03/22 |
Xi Ends Trip to Russia as China Grows More Emboldened
Despite Xi’s efforts to present China as a peacemaker in Russia’s war in Ukraine, some observers said Beijing’s priority is not for the war to come to an end. Instead, the main importance for China is to ensure the Russian regime remains in power.
2022/11/28 | Sponsored
Taipei Entrepreneurs Hub Demo Day 2.0 Debuts at the Taipei Expo with Over Ten International Startups in Four Innovative Sectors
"Taipei Entrepreneurs Hub Demo Day 2.0," the annual industrial talent exchange program consisting of a demo day and a matchmaking event, debuted at the "2022 Taipei International Startup Week," where 10 overseas startup teams, the winners of twoonline pitch contests, met with 3 native startups from Taipei. These teams have demonstrated how their innovative ideas can create impactful changes to the enterprises and investors and then go on to establish new businesses in Taipei.
2023/03/21 |
How Sex Trafficking Survivors in India Find New Meaning in Life
Human trafficking is the second largest organized crime in India after drug trafficking. It’s particularly prevalent in the eastern regions of the country, which face extreme weather events like cyclones and floods.
2023/03/20 |
Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Has Chinese Startups Worried
The now-failed SVB served roughly 2,200 clients in China and advised government regulators who were eager to build the country’s tech sector.
2022/11/17 | Sponsored
Taoyuan Airport Returns to Normal Operations as Taiwan Ends Mandatory Quarantine on Oct 13
Taiwan's border reopening will eventually usher in recovery and prosperity. Taoyuan Airport stands to provide returning passengers with best services in the post-pandemic era, hopefully to leave them with moving memories.
2023/03/17 |
China’s Speed in Selling Arms Prompt Us Partners To Buy From Beijing, Say Officials
Such concerns about China’s weapons sales are not new and have persisted despite Washington’s overall dominance in arms exports.
2023/03/16 |
Veteran Hong Kong Labor Rights Activist Arrested on Suspicion of Foreign Collusion
Elizabeth Tang, a veteran Hong Kong labor activist, was arrested after she visited her husband Lee Cheuk Yan, who’s in jail for organizing and participating in several unauthorized assemblies between 2019 and 2020.
2022/10/31 | Sponsored
GARAOTUS partners with Wasai, Advantech, and Intel to improve disease research efficiency by 89%
High-performance computing (HPC) is a term used to describe high-performance computing. Recently, it has become an essential element of enterprise transformation as well as a key to enterprise innovation. However, based on the research statistics, it is found that when enterprises build HPC, up to 70% of their time is spent on hardware calibration, while only 30% of researchers' time is spent on core business; this situation not only causes the core team to spend too much time understanding software and hardware; it is more likely to cause significant delays in implementing the transformation.
2023/03/13 |
Could Myanmar Be Implicated in Russia’s War Against Ukraine?
The head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence says Russia is buying weapons via third countries, and Myanmar might be one of them.
2023/03/10 |
China Hands Xi Jinping Historic Third Term as President
Xi was unanimously voted to serve a third term as the president and commander of the 2 million-member People’s Liberation Army.
2022/10/31 | Sponsored
Information security challenges emerge often, ACW SOUTH can help forge cyber security for Taiwan
Taiwan is under foreign cyber attacks up to 30 million times on average every month. How can ACW SOUTH play its role to lay down foundations for cyber security and empower cybersec talents at the time when information and communication technology is rising and cyber threats are imminent?
2023/03/09 |
Crackdown, Financial Constraints Limit Myanmar Protests
Donations to anti-government organizations have gradually dropped, but living costs and expenses for protests are rising.
2023/03/01 |
China Said To Ask Domestic Firms To Shun Big Four Accountants
Beijing is concerned that the audits might give access to information about the problems of the state-owned enterprises that they regard as sensitive, analysts say.
2022/09/16 | Sponsored
Wistron AiEdge Corporation Launches ZigNeurons, ZigFleet, and ZigRail, a Suite of AI-Powered Intelligent Mobility Solutions
The Mobility Solutions are focused on optimizing profitability & efficiency while lessening emissions impact of fleet and railway operations.
2023/02/24 |
China Urges Russia-Ukraine Cease-fire and Peace Talks
China’s 12-point position paper on the war in Ukraine comes amid Western accusations Beijing is considering supplying arms to Russia. Western leaders have questioned Beijing’s willingness to mediate and its credibility as a mediator.
2023/02/21 |
Can a Transnational Legislative Alliance Challenge China?
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China aims to coordinate democratic countries’ responses to China. Political analysts, however, say there are limitations to the group’s ability to formulate concrete measures.
2022/06/06 | Sponsored
Mark Chang, Chief Strategy Officer of GARAOTUS: Redefine the High-Performance Computing (HPC) and make "Computing Power" become new energy for industrial transformation
During this era of digital technology, "computing power" will become the most important "Energy" for the industry. In the future, GARAOTUS will work together to go international by forming alliances with strategic partners in these seven industrial fields.
2023/02/20 |
US: No Apology From China for Balloon Surveillance
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi requested the U.S. “change course” and fix the damage done to the bilateral relationship caused by the “abuse of force” in shooting down the balloon, according to Chinese state media.
2023/02/17 |
Can ASEAN Benefit From the EU’s Green Agriculture Push?
The EU wants to champion “green agriculture” in Southeast Asia. But limited trade relations, regulatory nightmares, and distrust could stymie it.
2022/05/19 | Sponsored
Phihong launches a 280W GaN Charger suitable for gaming laptop
Phihong Technology has launched new 280W GaN high power adapter designed for gaming laptops, which combines the best circuit design and manufacturing process, and can fully bring the user unprecedented miniaturization, light weight, and still provide the full standard user experience.
2023/02/16 |
Will Chinese Advanced AI Chatbots Survive China’s Online Censorship?
China’s first chatbot was suspended service shortly after its launch. Users mocked that the service could not pass the censorship test.
2023/02/15 |
Cambodia’s Ties With West Threatened by Media Clampdown
One of Cambodia’s last independent news outlets, VOD, was forcibly closed. This was allegedly due to VOD naming the prime minister’s son, and not the prime minister himself, as the signatory of an aid to Turkey after its recent earthquakes.