Taiwan (Sinyi) The housing prices again escalated after the 2008 economic crisis, when Ma Ying-jeou’s administration cut gift and estate taxes from 50% to 10% in 2009, and lowered the corporate ...

Taiwan’s housing prices are one of the highest in the world, but policymakers don’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation, nor have they taken urgent steps to resolve the crisis ...

In centuries past, the Philippines played a significant role in sparking the outside world’s first awareness of Taiwan. When the Spanish occupied the Philippine archipelago in 1571 and set up ...

Japan’s general election is arriving just after the likely accession of a new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida. But there’s much more going on this year.

Legally, Taiwan is a piece of territory that was "never returned" properly. What roles have Japan and the United States played historically?

Taiwan has become a global leader in recycling, with one of the highest recycling rates in the world! The country manages to recycle more than 50% of it’s municipal waste and is thereby only a ...

Taiwan's GDP per capita has reached 13th highest globally, but its workers' wages lag behind.

Taiwan's inadequate minimum wage has led to a multitude of social problems, including high injury death rates, mental health issues, and increasing suicide rates.

If you say that the minimum wage in Taiwan is too low, you may hear responses that plead the case of businesses that can’t afford to raise wages any higher. But instead of asking what businesses ...

Taiwan appears to be on the brink of what may become a constitutional crisis. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, buoyed by its success in the nine-in-one elections last November, is suddenly ...

A successful crowdfunding campaign has delivered ‘Nine Sols’, a new title from Taiwanese game developer Red Candle. Its Taoist-cyberpunk imagery and action gameplay is a major break from ...

A slurry of protests, policies and payments eliminated Taiwan’s waste problems.