Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is often applauded internationally as a success story, yet it has only been possible because of Taiwan’s strong medical profession and vibrant civil society. How did civil society engagement contribute to Taiwan’s pandemic response?

In the early stage of Japanese colonial governance, the Government-General of Taiwan encouraged the straw hat business—the growth of which not only brought Taiwan to the stage of international fashion, but also consolidated Japan’s colonial imaginary of Taiwan as a southern island, a strategic site from which the southward advance policy could be launched. A story about colonial modernity and imaginaries, this article features as part of our special issue: Encountering Everyday Life: Taiwan in Museums.

On February 26, 2021, the Chinese General Administration of Customs unexpectedly announced a ban on imports of Taiwanese pineapple starting from March 1. March is the export season for Taiwan's famous Golden Diamond Pineapple. The Chinese ban came as a shock to the Taiwanese industry. How did Taiwan’s overreliance on the Chinese market come to be? Who gets to decide the fate of Taiwanese pineapples?

In our second feature for the 2020 Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan series, award recipient Pranav Dayanand makes a case for what TikTok can tell us about the complex state of Indonesian migrant worker affairs in Taiwan.

With false information growing daily on platforms like Facebook and LINE, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has drawn up an action plan that targets specific age groups. But what do NGOs and tech companies think of the plan?

The content farm "Mission" is enormously popular with pan-blue supporters, and despite numerous takedowns, continues to rise from the dead. But who's pulling the strings at Mission?

China and Taiwan both use “China” in the names of their national airlines. But the confusion doesn’t stop there, they also share the same “tail numbers” — identifying numbers that are unique to each country’s national air carrier.

Google, Facebook and LINE claim to have toolkits to stop the spread of disinformation on their platforms. In reality, content farms and propaganda peddlers are way ahead of the game.

A mysterious figure from China, “Boss Evan” has trained dozens of online fraudsters and propaganda peddlers. Now, he’s created an entire platform for anyone to bootstrap their own content farm empire.

In Malaysia, trans-national content farms are “an industry,” says one insider. But why does Malaysian content directed at Taiwan take on so many “Chinese characteristics?”

Messaging app LINE is a haven for health scams, misleading headlines and Chinese government propaganda. In this four part series, The Reporter reveals a trans-national group of schemers behind the all out assault.

Chen Meihua, professor of sociology at Sun Yat-sen University, says misogynist speeches by KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu not only scared away women’s votes, but also the youth vote.

Puma Shen says China could use Russian-style online disinformation campaigns in the run-up to Taiwan's 2020 Presidential Elections. 

With an increase of extreme weather due to climate change, the need for food security in Taiwan is more pressing than ever. Could new technologies help defend Taiwanese agriculture?

Veteran journalist Nojima Tsuyoshi says Japan paid more attention to the 2018 local elections in Taiwan than any other. He gives three reasons why Taiwan’s populist wave will have a big impact on Taiwan-Japan relations.

One of Taiwan's most astute political watchers dissects the results of the 2018 local elections.

The “Asia Silicon Valley” plan was supposed to fix Taiwan’s brain drain problem, but critics say it’s not working.

Fact-checking platform Rumor & Truth exposes a doctored TIME Magazine cover featuring President Tsai Ing-wen laughing at a flood-ravaged police officer.