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When builder and developer Liao Ta-sheng (廖大盛) moved to the United States 30 years ago, he never dreamed that he would also see a migration of his career.

Seated comfortably in a classroom at a Taipei hospital one September morning, Ukrainian doctor Daria Solianyk, dressed in scrubs, vividly recalled the harrowing day she got caught in a shoot-out on her way home, after her shift at a hospital in the frontline city of Mykolaiv in February 2022.

Several Taiwanese athletes became household names at this year's Paris Olympics, most prominently among them Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷), who overcame controversy to win Taiwan's first-ever Olympic gold in boxing.

"In the year of 1996... A-Ma was robbed on a hot summer night and left for dead in the street," attorney Essen Lee (李宣毅) recounted the tragic incident surrounding the death of his grandmother at the Constitutional Court in April.

In just two days, Taiwan's Constitutional Court will determine whether to abolish the death penalty. But legal scholars believe that the court is likely to choose a "middle ground" given the contentious nature of the issue.

The streets in Taipei's Wanhua District tended to be calm on weekday mornings, but sounds of boxes being moved and lively chatter from an elderly woman's house on one Thursday interrupted the usual quiet.

All eyes were on the ring at Roland-Garros Stadium in Paris on Saturday night as the opening bell rang for the final bout of the women's 57-kilogram (featherweight) division, featuring Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) of Taiwan and Julia Szeremeta of Poland.

For many athletes, standing on an Olympic podium even once, regardless of the color of the medal, is a tremendous honor.

Calling the back-to-back success of Taiwanese badminton duo Lee Yang (李洋) and Wang Chi-lin (王齊麟) at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games a miracle is almost an understatement.

After Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) announced 16 months ago her plan to retire at the end of the 2024 season, fans worldwide hoped to see the former world No. 1 conclude her illustrious career with a gold medal at the Paris Games.