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Eased restrictions fuel optimism as North Korea’s crab season gets under way

North Korea appears to be allowing private individuals to go crabbing for the first time since the pandemic, with entrepreneurs flocking to the Yellow Sea coast ahead of the...

North Korean youth ditch tradition as “going Dutch” becomes the norm at restaurants

North Korean high school students in Hamhung have begun dining out with classmates multiple...

North Korea orders AI and new energy push, threatens managers who inflate results

North Korea has ordered industrial managers across the country to abandon inflated production statistics...

North Korea-China rail revival fuels trade surge, sanctions evasion attempts

Goods ranging from manufactured products to agricultural produce are moving through the newly resumed...

Hyesan smugglers rush Chinese apparel and shoes ahead of April school term

North Korean smugglers along the Chinese border are importing spring clothing, footwear and school supplies through Chinese customs ahead of the April 1 semester...

China blocks North Korean factory workers en masse

A Chinese garment factory in Liaoning province attempted to bring roughly 100 North Korean female workers into China in January, but local authorities rejected...

President Lai attends MOFA’s spring banquet

President Lai Ching-te pledged to continue collaborating with democratic partners to uphold regional peace and advance global prosperity.   The Presidential Office said Lai made the...

FM Lin holds videoconference to assist Taiwanese nationals in Middle East

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung held a videoconference March 12 with the heads of Taiwan’s missions in the Middle East to get a status update...

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,...

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