Early this year, Taiwan’s legislature passed a set of amendments to the Labor Standards Act (LSA), Taiwan’s core statute governing labor and employment. These amendments, which were officially ...

“My father was born in 1926 in Tamsui. My mother was born in 1930 in Tokyo, where my grandfather (who was from Banqiao; my maternal grandmother was from Tainan) worked as a financial advisor until ...

The “America First” economic agenda is moving from campaign rhetoric to policy direction: favoring domestic production, sharpening trade selectivity, and redefining what supply-chain sovereignty means ...

Taiwan’s life expectancy and infant mortality rates appear to lag behind its neighbors. But a closer look at the data reveals a more complex story influenced by changing reporting practices and ...

The Tsai administration is making a heavy commitment of resources to promoting seven sectors of the economy as the key to transforming Taiwan’s industry. The initial five “pillar industries” were the ...

The lucrative industry of hand-shaken tea beverages has received attention from the Taiwan government, human rights groups, and the island’s many entrepreneurs. But with the growing politicization of ...

In recent years, the rapid expansion of AI, semiconductor manufacturing, and data centers has significantly increased electricity demand in Taiwan. As a result, the availability, cost structure, and ...

A green revolution is taking place under the sun, promising a cleaner, more secure energy supply. Sitting smack on the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan has made a commonsense move by successfully ...

TOPICS editors sat down with Lan Tsu-wei, president of the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute (TFAI), to talk about the development of Taiwanese cinema, its relationship to the world and society, and ...

Taiwan’s three Science-based Industrial Parks – the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, Central Taiwan Science Park centered in Taichung, and Southern Taiwan Science Park centered in Tainan – ...

Taiwan’s first two virtual banks have quickly accumulated customers, and the market is expanding with a third such bank on the way. But Taiwan’s oversaturated banking market will likely require that ...

In an era where AI and big data are transforming every industry, even the creation of a single seed is entering a new phase of intelligence. Founded in 1968, Known-You Seed — a company built on ...