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Listening to how North Koreans talk

A film I watched recently added Korean subtitles to a conversation between North Korean characters, as though they were speaking a foreign language. Eight decades after the peninsula was...

Empty-handed farmers drive up rice prices

Farm workers in South Hwanghae province are flooding local markets to buy rice in...

Taiwan, Japan collaborate on urban greening

The Ministry of Environment hosted a meeting on building resilient, greener cities Nov. 3...

FM Lin hosts Paraguay delegation

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung hosted a banquet for a five-member delegation led by Paraguay...

MOE welcomes Austrian university officials, seeks deeper exchanges

A delegation composed of representatives from University of Innsbruck and TU Wien visited Taiwan Oct. 27-Nov. 1 at the invitation of the Ministry of...

Kimchi shortage exposes farm policy flaws

A poor 2026 harvest of radishes and napa cabbage is set to cause a kimchi shortage in parts of North Korea this winter. The...

North Korea courts Chinese money for Sinuiju hotels

North Korea is courting Chinese investors to build hotels and shopping complexes in Sinuiju as ties with Beijing warm in 2026. The new bridge...

Elite unit’s villa repairs spill into local markets

High-end building materials and fixtures torn out of Kim family villas and state guesthouses are turning up in North Korean markets in 2026. Many...

Kim Jong Un’s luxury yacht ends its summer off Wonsan

Kim Jong Un’s 80-meter luxury yacht, complete with a swimming pool and waterslides, spent about three months of summer 2026 anchored off the Kim...

Taiwan steps up UAV advancement

The 2026 Taiwan Drone International Forum’s opening ceremony and the official launch of the Global UAV Academy took place Oct. 30 in Taipei City,...

Digital minister shares Taiwan’s success at cybersecurity conference

Digital Minister Lin Yi-jing attended Cyber Security Nordic 2026, held Oct. 28-29 in Helsinki, to share Taiwan’s digital security successes and promote exchanges with...

Trader loses all her medicine after defying police

A Chongjin medicine trader lost her entire stock in October 2026 after refusing a police officer’s demand for free drugs, winning back her goods...

Shock brigade thieves face public trial in Paekam

Three young laborers in North Korea’s Ryanggang province faced a public trial in October 2026 for a monthslong theft spree targeting food, livestock and...

North Korean trucks still missing from New Yalu River Bridge

Chinese cargo trucks are rolling across the New Yalu River Bridge, but North Korean trucks have yet to join them. Two weeks after the...

Deputy Foreign Minister Wu gives interview to Czech media outlet

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs François Chih-chung Wu said Oc. 21 that Taiwan is committed to defending freedom and democracy and that maintaining peace...

President Lai meets with prime minister of St. Lucia

President Lai Ching-te pledged to continue working with St. Lucia to benefit the people of both countries, and to jointly contribute to global peace,...

North Korean teachers ordered to cram English for language contest

Education authorities in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province have ordered teachers to compete in a “multilingual contest” in 2026. Teachers in Chongjin say it...

North Korean women spend on leisure amid currency fears

Small groups of North Korean women with a little money to spare are embracing domestic tourism this fall. Leisure trips of this kind were...

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