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Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soarTaiwanese high schools will begin offering mental health leave to students this month, to address rising rates of youth suicide and high levels of stress and depressi…
Read MoreThe daily lives of Chang Li hua, 86, and Yi Yan Fuei, 97, were filmed by their grandson. The result is Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, an Oscar-nominated documentaryThe two elderly Taiwanese women are leaning in towards the Zoom screen, sitting side by side and we…
Read MoreAs Beijing has increased its efforts to recruit Taiwanese people, the number of spying cases has risenIn November, a Taiwan court heard accusations that two serving soldiers had accepted bribes from Chinese agents to record a video declaring their loya…
Read MoreDissidents face an uncertain future in Taiwan and South Korea after fleeing When Li Cheng En pushed his standup paddleboard off the Xiamen beach on China’s Fujian coastline, a mother and son stood nearby, watching him. It was dark, and he moved quickly…
Read MoreVoters are faced with a choice of continuity with the ruling DPP or change, with an opposition that favours closer ties with Beijing On the eve of the deadline to formally register as a candidate for Taiwan’s presidential elections in January, the ruli…
Read MorePassageways built under Taipei’s famous Grand Hotel during the Chiang Kai-shek era are attracting tourists keen to know their historyOver the years there have been many rumours about the secret tunnels under Taipei’s Grand Hotel. Some say they were sec…
Read MoreAnnual emergency drills have for the first time included a military strike on Taipei, a sign of worsening cross-strait relationsOn a Thursday afternoon in Taipei, it was 26 August 2025 and China’s military had just fired a missile into the city, hittin…
Read MoreReported detention of Li Yanhe has echoes of 2015 disappearances of five Hong Kong booksellersConcerns are mounting for a Taiwan-based book publisher believed to have been detained in China, in a case that has echoed the disappearances in 2015 of five …
Read MoreBeijing has urged the US not to allow Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US, saying it would be a ‘provocation’ China-Taiwan relations explained in 30 secondsThe Chinese government has threatened retaliation if Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meets …
Read MoreDelegation of British lawmakers met Taiwan’s president during visit to the island this week amid a deteriorating UK-China relationshipChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsA British parliamentary delegation to Taiwan has called for the UK govern…
Read MoreTemple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu’er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and ChinaDuring a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively…
Read MoreArmy of yellow garbage trucks blasting out classical jingles brings out a Pavlovian response to take out binsThe sound is inescapable. Wherever you are in Taiwan – be it three beers deep at a city bar, floating in the Taiwan Strait, or hauling yourself…
Read MoreJoseph Wu backs Chinese protesters but says Beijing ‘might try to create external crisis to divert domestic attention’Taiwan’s foreign minister has backed China’s anti-Covid protesters but also expressed concerns that Beijing could seek to scapegoat Ta…
Read MoreTsai Ing-wen compares China’s ‘bullying’ to Russian invasion of Ukraine on de facto national dayTaiwan’s president has called for domestic political unity to combat Chinese disinformation and cyberwarfare destabilising society before next month’s local…
Read MorePolice forces in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Vietnam have launched major operations to rescue their citizens and shut down trafficking syndicatesHundreds of Taiwanese are among unknown numbers of victims being held captive and forced to work i…
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