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Taiwan’s science parks deliver impressive returns in 2025

Taiwan’s three science parks reported revenues totaling NT$5.8 trillion (US$182.1 billion) in 2025, up 21.83 percent year on year, the National Science and Technology...

Kim Jong Un’s ‘two hostile states’ declaration: legal implications for the Korean Peninsula

North Korea rewrote the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) charter at the ninth WPK Congress, held Feb. 19-25, 2026, formally enshrining the “two hostile...

Deputy FM Wu welcomes Spanish lawmakers

Deputy Foreign Minister François Chih-chung Wu anticipated deepened cooperation and exchange with Spain in information and communication technologies, renewable energy and semiconductors.   Wu made the...

Satellite imagery reveals what remains of North Korea-Syria cooperation sites

Nearly two decades after an Israeli airstrike obliterated a suspected North Korean-built reactor in the Syrian desert, new satellite imagery of the Al-Kibar site...

N. Korean students face more ideology sessions as regime tightens grip on youth

North Korean schools have sharply increased mandatory political study sessions for students at all levels following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of...

Taiwan ranks fifth in global economic freedom index

Taiwan ranked fifth in the 2026 Index of Economic Freedom released March 10 by Washington, D.C.-based think tank The Heritage Foundation, according to the...

International Women’s Day brings an unusual scene to North Korea: husbands buying lattes

Coffee shops in North Korea’s Sinuiju were packed with couples on International Women’s Day this year as husbands marked the holiday by taking their...

North Korea orders officer unity training after party congress

North Korea’s VIII Corps held three-day training sessions for junior officers across its units in early March, ordering them to cultivate closer bonds with...

North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify

Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...

Taiwan reports high foreign trade in February

The Ministry of Finance reported exports of US$49.8 billion and imports of US$37 billion in February, surging year-on-year by 20.6 percent and 6.8 percent,...

Taiwan hosts international conference on water supply resilience

The International Conference on Multi-Water Resource Application Strategies and Agricultural Sustainability and Resilience Under Climate Change is underway through March 11 in Taipei City,...

Vintage railway diplomacy is extended

The Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Alishan Forest Railway Cultural Heritage Management Office achieved a new milestone in a transnational friendship...

Beijing-Pyongyang passenger train service set to resume after nearly six years

North Korea and China are set to resume direct passenger rail service between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 12, ending a suspension of nearly...

FM Lin hosts Guam Gov. Guerrero

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung hosted a delegation from the U.S. Territory of Guam March 9 in Taipei City to exchange views on issues of...

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