Asia Pacific Oct 26, 2021

Model soldiers and secret bunkers: Taiwan's front line with China

At the height of the Cold War, Kinmen saw the last wartime battles between China and Taiwan. Now locals are encouraging tourism.

Asia Pacific Oct 18, 2021

In Taiwan tea country, a scramble to adapt to extreme weather

Farmers were hit hard by a heavy drought last year only to face torrential rain this year.

Asia Pacific Sep 2, 2021

BioNTech vaccines finally reach Taiwan after heated political wrangling

Taiwan has blamed China, which claims the island as its own territory, for nixing an original order from the German firm earlier this year.

Business Jun 27, 2019

To dodge U.S. trade war, Chinese exporters shift production to Myanmar and other low-cost nations

Pressured by a labor crunch and rising wages in China, Shu Ke'an, whose company supplies bulletproof vests, rifle bags and other tactical gear to the United States, first considered shifting some production to Southeast Asia a few years ago, but nothing came of it. When ...