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Before Carter Coleman traveled to Taiwan, his parents wanted to see whether he could locate the island on a map.

When Indonesian caregiver Susi (a pseudonym) first came to Taiwan in April 2024, she hoped the job would allow her to support her child and ailing mother back home.

After Marcin Zbylut became a Taiwanese citizen in early 2020, life for the Polish-born traditional Chinese medicine doctor remained much the same, including his work at two clinics in Greater Taipei and the family responsibilities he carried.

Standing waist-deep in water, 45-year-old Thai migrant worker Kwanchai Pongphet carefully harvests water snowflake, a signature crop in Kaohsiung's Meinong District in southern Taiwan.

Football is the most popular sport in the world, but in Taiwan it struggles to command the attention enjoyed by other sports.

Formosan black bear encounters with humans are on the rise in Taiwan as the animal's population expands to habitats at lower elevations, leaving public agencies scrambling to figure out how ways to prevent such encounters from becoming more frequent.

Beijing is unlikely to again block an overseas trip by President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) as it did when he tried to visit Eswatini, but Lai may not secure a stopover in the contiguous United States anytime soon, analysts said at the halfway mark of Lai's first term in office.

Taiwan's exports of finished drones to Europe surged more than 40-fold in 2025 and continued rising in early 2026, as Western countries moved to reduce reliance on Chinese-made unmanned aerial vehicles amid concerns over cybersecurity and supply chain resilience.

On a stretch of open land in southern Taiwan, an engineer from Thunder Tiger Corp. wearing first-person view goggles guides an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) through a series of sharp turns before bringing it down for a controlled landing.

When Taiwan's last active nuclear reactor at the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant was shut down on May 17, 2025, Taiwan officially became a "non-nuclear homeland," a longtime goal of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).