While TSMC is preparing to mass-produce 2 nm chips for customers such as Apple and Nvidia—pushing the technology frontier forward by roughly three additional nodes—China is still grappling with the economic viability and stability of 7 nm production.

Concerns mount that some users may not be able to distinguish between neutral information and messaging aligned with Chinese state narratives.

After a 13-day fire at Tainan’s Wushulin waste site (烏樹林暫置場), officials apologized and acknowledged systemic failures in debris sorting and long-term storage, promising accelerated cleanup, full environmental monitoring, and new management rules.

Every large community should maintain its own risk map, updated annually, identifying: construction hotspots, zones with heavy electrical load, storage or use of flammable materials, floors with significant elderly populations, weak night-shift oversight.

The gap between leading enterprises is actually widening, making Taiwan’s strategic position in the global supply chain even more prominent.

City diplomacy offers Taiwan a strategic solution to stay in the game, by creating a subnational platform that allows foreign countries to circumvent the concerns of formally recognizing Taiwan’s statehood. Such efforts by the city of Kaohsiung provide a great example as to why Taiwan should leverage city diplomacy to advance its foreign policy goals.

Among emerging CDR technologies, biochar has unexpectedly become a headline topic. And for good reason: it offers a rare combination of scientific credibility, scalability, and economic viability.

Stats from China show foreign direct investment (FDI) reached only USD 8.5 billion in the third quarter of 2025 — a sharp drop of more than 50% from USD 17.36 billion in the previous quarter, representing a quarterly contraction of USD 8.86 billion … this dramatic fall suggests that China’s position in the global investment landscape is rapidly deteriorating and that foreign investors’ risk assessments of the Chinese market are undergoing a fundamental reassessment.

By Pai Pei-hwa (白佩華) | Special to The Kaohsiung Times Oct. 27, 2025Image source: Ministry of the Environment website TAIWAN — For…

The defense sector has become integral to gradually shaping a powerful social consensus: in Singapore, to be an officer is to be an elite.