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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Absent a more proactive approach, the demographic shift could strain long-term care systems, social support, and the national health budget. In the seven years from 2018 to 2025, Taiwan moved from ...

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 ...

Renewable targets have not been reached, and resumption of nuclear energy use appears increasingly likely. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has long signaled a willingness to reconsider the island’s ...

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 ...

Taiwan is deepening its ties with Latin American countries in tandem with the Trump administration’s growing focus on the Western Hemisphere. For the first time in nearly two decades, Taiwan may have ...

Taiwan’s proposed special defense budget reflects a changing threat environment, where preparedness is no longer defined by a single scenario or a fixed endpoint. In early 2026, Taiwan’s defense ...

From sugar-coated schoolyard supplements to precision fermentation and biodiversity research, Taiwan’s unlikely yeast story reveals how a once-marginal microbe is quietly shaping the island’s next ...

Alex Liu is the cofounder of MaiCoin, Taiwan’s largest digital asset trading group. His systems-level perspective on the cryptocurrency industry is shaped by years spent operating within the financial ...