But looking back, this situation captures perfectly what a holiday on Green Island is like. This popular tourist destination, approximately 30 km off the coast of Taitung County, is a place of ...

“Beautiful mistakes,” Li-chiao Upham calls them. No. 8 is full of them. The one we’re looking at is an archway, discovered during a partial wall collapse, as contractors punched through to connect ...

More than two decades before architect CY Lee designed Taiwan’s tallest and most famous building — the 508-meter-tall, pagoda-inspired Taipei 101 — he produced another. It was an ostensibly more ...

Despite being shunned by the travel guides, this small southern city is proving to be one of Taiwan’s most charming vacation spots. When I told friends I was heading to Pingtung City for a holiday ...

For tourists spending a couple of weeks in Taiwan, Changhua City is seldom more than a bus-stop blur on the way to historic Lukang. But if you’re an explorer with more time on your hands, you might ...

With some of Northeast Asia’s tallest mountains, arresting coastal geology, dense forests that cover more than half of the island, and one of the world’s most spectacular gorges, Taiwan has more than ...

Steve Chen’s experiences as an early employee at PayPal and later Facebook played a significant role in his success as a YouTube cofounder and its Chief Technology Officer. In 2006, Chen and fellow ...

Taiwan is taking strategic cues from Ukraine, recalibrating its defense strategies in the shadow of a looming giant. Russia’s war in Ukraine represents the most significant military confrontation in ...

Taiwan entered the second quarter of 2026 with its strongest growth momentum in nearly four decades, as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced semiconductors, and high-performance ...

Efforts to build a non-Chinese drone supply chain are gaining traction, but fragmented systems, procurement delays, and global competition could limit how far and how fast Taiwan can advance. In his ...

Hundreds have found greener pastures in Taiwan’s fast-growing auto electronics sector, where smart mobility is eclipsing smartphones as the next tech frontier. When Paul Wu left Hsinchu-based fabless ...