There are 5,132 Koreans with ARC (resident “Green Card” status) currently in Taiwan. Alexandra and Amy (Kaohsiung American School Grade 9 Students — and both Koreans themselves — spoke to some Koreans about how they feel about “belonging” in Taiwan.

2025 recaps show how tightly streaming data is now woven into the way people understand their own media habits. For the platforms, they are also powerful annual marketing campaigns. For users, they have become a kind of digital diary of what they listened to, watched, and talked about throughout the year.

Belle Ng and Emily Liu — Grade 9 students from Kaohsiung American School — investigate colorism and racism in Taiwan.

We were all sold a false bill of goods from a bunch of snake-oil salesmen. We were promised that the World Wide Web would democratize access to info, that it would flatten the pre-existing class structures, and increase human capacity to a level not seen since the Industrial Revolution. We were promised that computers in classrooms would give “21st century skills.” It’s done none of these things. In fact, it’s done the complete opposite.

Reporting by Zoe Hwang and Owen Tsui (Grade 9) – Zohran Mamdani is scheduled to succeed Democratic incumbent Eric Adams, as Mayor of New York City, on January 1, 2026… What do some of the U.S. citizens at Kaohsiung American School think?

Is the band ‘Geese’ the tip of some kind of classic four-piece garage rock revival spear?

Opinion by Kaohsiung American School Student Benjamin Lo (Grade 9) Image shows a deity in Taipei worshiped by some gay men, an…

Worldwide, roughly 1 in 90 births, about 1.1 percent, results from a twin pregnancy. In Taiwan, however, twins account for an estimated 2 to 3 percent of all newborns, a rate nearly triple the global average. Experts attribute the rise to wider use of assisted reproductive technology. For her latest video report, Emily Liu of Kaohsiung American School -who is herself a twin- takes a closer look at why Taiwan is seeing so many double arrivals.

Taiwan is experiencing a severe and sustained decline in its birth rate, with predictions indicating it is on course to have the world’s lowest total fertility rate (TFR) by 2035.

Self-control only gets you so far. Quitting a drug works because society expects sobriety. But with phones, everyone is “using,” so no one has an incentive to stop.