The international market for Taiwanese drones is growing rapidly and manufacturers have begun moving away from battery cells made in China. Yet, Taiwan’s drone industry remains heavily dependent on China for upstream materials needed to manufacture cells.The proportion of Taiwan’s drone industry usi
Taiwan has received unprecedented international attention and support amid China’s increasingly assertive military and diplomatic posture in the Taiwan Strait. ASEAN, too, has become increasingly attentive to developments across the Strait. One indication of this evolving outlook was Philippine Secr
Amid a number of controversies in Taiwan, some politicians have repeatedly shifted the focus of discussion away from core responsibilities by substituting concepts, blurring legal and moral boundaries, and amplifying secondary points of contention, leaving society tangled in a series of conflicting
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Next week marks the fifth anniversary of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban after US coalition troops were evacuated from the country. That is five years for the terrorists to have consolidated their grip, so now is a good time to reflect on what the “coalition of the willing” left behind.Th
The Strait of Hormuz is not the only Middle Eastern naval chokepoint under threat: In the Red Sea, vital shipping is being disrupted by an Iranian proxy, the Houthis of Yemen. Now Saudi Arabia, the nation most affected by the Houthis’ threats to commercial traffic, is forming a naval coalition to re
Although China has barred its citizens from studying in Taiwan, a Control Yuan report released on Wednesday last week showed a sharp increase in the number of Taiwanese students traveling to China, posing a significant threat to Taiwan’s security and sovereignty. The report by Control Yuan members L
Twenty days — that is the gap between June 10, when Central Union Oil Corp learned that its soybean oil contained excessive levels of the carcinogen benzopyrene, and June 30, when it told the government. Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) has stated those dates publicly.Almost eve
It has been nearly 27 years since Taiwan was struck by the massive 921 Earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 that claimed more than 2,000 lives. Since the Japanese government installed a Gray-Milne seismograph at what is now the Central Weather Administration in 1897, Taiwan has accumulated just 129 years of
The original intent behind Taiwan’s stock market disposal system was to curb abnormal trading, maintain market order and prevent excessive speculation from amplifying market risks. However, during the market correction last month, many investors experienced for the first time how — when panic grips
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Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, Gulf officials and analysts said.Rather than seeking a decisive military victory, Tehran is pursuing a str
A rare joint US-Japan intervention has raised the stakes on traders betting against the yen, but analysts are doubtful that speculators would be kept at bay without tighter monetary policy.The ultimate test would be whether the Bank of Japan (BOJ) follows through with faster interest rate increases,
Her voice is that of a frail, elderly woman, but ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina still has the power to incite from exile, vowing to return home despite facing the gallows.Analysts said her defiance is not a death wish, but a desperate bid to remain politically relevant, claw on to her suppo
A study by Taiwan’s National Academy for Educational Research (NAER) found that Dutch elementary-school English textbooks contain almost twice as many unique vocabulary words as Taiwanese textbooks and introduce more advanced vocabulary at an earlier stage. The researchers recommended that Taiwan sh
The legislature on July 24 passed the Taiwan Youth Development and Future Account Act (台灣兒少成長及未來帳戶條例) requiring the central government to open a “future account” for every child. The government would deposit NT$60,000 (US$1,857) when a child is born and NT$60,000 annually. By age 18, each account ho
Scenes of “zombie vape” use on school campuses across the nation are alarming. In most cases, the children using them are not necessarily high-risk students under special supervision by schools; many are well-performing students with good grades, who take their first hit of the drug because they do
Less than a week after Taiwan formally launched a national research institute focused on the nation’s tourism industry, Taipei Times columnist Michael Turton wrote an op-ed (“Institutionalizing Taiwan’s tourism failure,” July 27, page 12). Turton suggested that the Taiwan Tourism Institute (TTI) was
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