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From stickers to safety checks: Line Taiwan’s rise as digital super-app
The Straits Times
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June 29, 2025
What is a social network to do when it becomes the biggest game in town? In Taiwan, the most popular app is Line, the online service that started as a chat app and has expanded into lifestyle, fintech, content, gaming and e-commerce. After...
World News | Taiwan Warns Against China's Provocations, Promotes UNCLOS Compliance in South China Sea
Latestly
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June 29, 2025
Taiwan [Taiwan], June 29 (ANI): Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) called for dialogue and restraint in resolving disputes in the South China Sea following the Philippines' official endorsement of new names for over 130 features in the...
Taiwanese owner makes methanol move with WinGD across multiple engine orders
Hellenic Shipping News
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June 25, 2025
Swiss marine power company WinGD will provide X‑DF‑M dual-fuel methanol and X-Engine methanol-ready engine designs for over 30 container vessels to be built for a major Taiwanese container ship operator. As well as indicating the competitiveness...
Taiwan outperforms in financial inclusion, FSC says
Taipei Times
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June 25, 2025
Taiwan has outperformed global averages in multiple financial inclusion categories, a report released on Monday by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) said. Financial inclusion is a concept adopted by the UN in the 2000s that refers to...
Taiwanese Shipowner Makes Methanol Move with WinGD Across Multiple Engine Orders
Offshore Source - Florida
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Swiss marine power company WinGD will provide X‑DF‑M dual-fuel methanol and X-Engine methanol-ready engine designs for over 30 container vessels to be built for a major Taiwanese container ship operator. As well as indicating the competitiveness...
Taipei Zoo extends Saturday hours from July 5 to Aug. 23
Focus Taiwan
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June 25, 2025
Taipei, June 25 (CNA) Taipei Zoo will extend its nighttime opening hours to 9 p.m. during the summer vacation for eight consecutive Saturdays from July 5 to Aug. 23 and there will also be night tickets available for purchase from 4:30 p.m.to 8...
Humans May Have Crossed from Taiwan to Yonaguni 30,000 Years Ago; Strategically Navigated Currents Following Sun, Stars
The Japan News
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June 29, 2025
Courtesy of Yosuke Kaifu An experimental voyage conducted in a dugout boat in July 2019 The Yomiuri Shimbun 13:52 JST, June 29, 2025 It is possible Paleolithic humans in a rowboat were able to cross from Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, Okinawa...
Environment ministry to launch PM0.1 monitoring trials in 2026
Focus Taiwan
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June 25, 2025
Taipei, June 25 (CNA) Taiwan will start trials to monitor ultrafine PM0.1 air particles in Taichung and Kaohsiung starting in 2026 to help develop a stable foundation for monitoring the pollutants, the Ministry of Environment (MOENV) said...
Taiwan outperforms global averages in financial inclusion: FSC
Focus Taiwan
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June 25, 2025
Taipei, June 25 (CNA) Taiwan has outperformed global averages in multiple financial inclusion categories, according to a report released Monday by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC). Financial inclusion, also known as inclusive finance, is...
Half of Tuvalu applies for Australia’s new climate visa
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 28, 2025
REUTERS/MANON CRUZ Prime Minister of Tuvalu Feleti Penitala Teo delivers a speech during a plenary session at the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), which gathers leaders, researchers and activists to discuss how to protect marine...
Environmental Impact Assessment: Sustainable agriculture in a post-pandemic world
Taipei Times
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June 24, 2025
Examining how ESG initiatives, tariffs and shrinking farmland affect Taiwan’s eco-conscious farmers COVID-19 caused mountains of medical waste. Households under lockdown took to ordering much of what they needed online, a habit that generates vast...
Taipei’s Chiang highlights city’s environmental policies at global summit
Taipei Times
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June 24, 2025
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) on Monday highlighted Taipei’s environmental governance policies, especially those on waste disposal and traffic, at a summit in Paris of world mayors focused on climate change. The only mayor representing an Asian...
Taiwan's industrial production rises for 15th straight month in May
Focus Taiwan
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June 24, 2025
Taipei, June 24 (CNA) Taiwan's industrial output surged over 22 percent in May from a year earlier, buoyed by booming tech demand and a rush by foreign buyers to beat looming U.S. tariffs-- marking 15 consecutive months of growth, the Ministry of...
Taiwan’s business sentiment hits 29-month low amid US tariff uncertainty
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 24, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], June 24 (ANI): Taiwan's manufacturing business sentiment weakened for the fourth consecutive month in May, reaching its lowest level in 29 months. The primary cause, according to the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER),...
DPP must stand by citizens and protect Taiwan: Lai
Taipei Times
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June 28, 2025
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) must align with citizens in their mass recall movement to safeguard the country, President William Lai (賴清德) said at the party’s national congress yesterday in his capacity as party chairman. At the party...
Opinion: Jim Martin: July 4 is more than a celebration of America’s past
Daily Camera - Colorado
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July 6, 2025
As we finish celebrating America’s 249th Independence Day weekend, our nation stands at a crossroads, grappling with a complex array of challenges that test our resilience, unity, and commitment to the ideals of liberty, equality and justice....
Australia is offering a special ‘climate’ visa – and people in Tuvalu are applying fast
The Straits Times
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June 28, 2025
Tuvalu, home to about 10,000 or so people scattered across nine small coral islands, has been losing land to rising seas.PHOTO: AFP As sea levels rise, Australia said it would offer a special, first-of-its-kind “climate visa” to citizens of...
Taiwan fishing boat captain indicted over dolphin poaching
Focus Taiwan
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June 24, 2025
Taipei, June 24 (CNA) The captain of a Taiwanese long-distance fishing vessel surnamed Wu (吳) has been indicted for instructing Indonesian crew members to slaughter dolphins for use as bait to catch sharks last year, the Pingtung District...
Taiwan NGOs, doctors urge action on air pollution to curb dementia risk
Focus Taiwan
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June 24, 2025
Taipei, June 24 (CNA) NGOs and medical groups on Tuesday urged Taiwan's government to strengthen air pollution monitoring, warning that exposure to pollutants such as PM2.5 pose a serious risk of dementia and other major health issues. Air...
Did Chinese Efforts to Intimidate Taiwan in Czechia Include an Attempt on Hsiao Bi-Khim’s Life?
New Bloom Magazine
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June 28, 2025
語言: English Photo Credit: Hsiao Bi-khim/Facebook A RECENT INTERVIEW by the Director of the Czech Military Intelligence Agency, General Petr Bartovský, with Czech Public Radio stated that China sought to intimidate Taiwanese vice president Hsiao...