Taiwan's representative office for the European Union and Belgium is thanking the European Parliament for passing two annual foreign policy and defence implementation reports with language supportive of Taiwan.

The Ministry of Labor says this year's Equal Pay Day fell on 23 February, four days earlier than in 2023, based on its estimate that women needed to work until this point in 2024 to achieve the same 2023 salary as men.

The Examination Yuan and the cabinet have both approved proposals to raise monthly pension payments for retired civil servants, military personnel, and public school teachers by 4%, retroactively from 1 January.

Taipower has announced that it will be recommending that residential electricity rates are raised for the first time in 20 years when the Electricity Price Review Committee meets later this month to discuss possible price adjustments.

The Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics has raised Taiwan 2024 GDP forecast to 3.43%.

Sweden's bid to join NATO, which had been held up for almost two years, cleared its last hurdle when Hungary gave its go-ahead Monday to let the Nordic country into the alliance.

Taiwan has once again been ranked fourth in the 2024 Index of Economic Freedom.

The Central Weather Administration is boosting its weather forecasting capabilities by integrating AI technology with the deployment of a 6th generation high-speed computing computer.

The Kuomintang (KMT) has unveiled 32 pieces of legislation it is hoping to put forward as priorities during the current legislative session, including six bills related to parliamentary reform.