Taiwan's policy on regulating the alternatives to tobacco smoking, generically called "vaping", is non-sensical. The latest policy changes are a knee-jerk reaction to powerful lobbies and fly in the face of evidence worldwide.

By Lee Faulkner

After the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic, how have people adapted and how are they feeling and acting one year on?

By Mike Jewell

Pupils all across Taiwan returned to school yesterday following a mandatory three week extension of their Chinese New Year holidays as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Taiwan's National Federation of Teachers Unions says elementary and secondary schools will start the new school year on 1 September.

Cabinet spokesman Luo Bing-cheng says Premier Su Tseng-chang has agreed in principle to support a "3 4" proposal to shorten the home isolation period for close contacts of those who tested positive for Covid

The Ministry of National Defense (MND) says it has received a payment of NT$5.2 billion from American defense contractor, RTX after it was found to have engaged in price gouging, with Taiwan and other buyers.

The Ministry of Finance reports that nine government-invested financial institutions in Taiwan have adopted the "Equator Principles" to evaluate social and environmental risks on projects they might be funding.

New Taipei City-based electronics manufacturer, Gold Apollo is denying claims by some international media outlets that it manufactured the pagers that exploded and killed Hezbollah members in Lebanon earlier this week.

Lawmakers have passed a slew of amendments to the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act.

As students head back to school this month, it might not be 'business as usual' just yet

By Joanna Lee

National Taiwan University has held a welcoming ceremony for the first group of 30 students participating in the Semiconductor Talent Incubation Program. The programme has been developed to train semiconductor talent in the German state of Saxony.

While the first draft of rules for Round 3.2 of Taiwan's offshore wind auction brings much anticipated flexibility there is still a lot of room for improvement. Localisation items have been reduced but will factor even stronger in the awards for 2028 and 2029 – that can be up to 900MW for a single project.

By Raoul Kubitschek, Jason Wang and James McCatherin

Control Yuan President Chen Chu says she would support plans to scrap the government watchdog, but that any moves to abolish it must be made through a constitutional amendment.

Thailand is welcoming back international visitors from today to its famous southern resort island of Phuket without having to be cooped up in a hotel room for a 14-day quarantine but only if they're vaccinated against the coronavirus.