He made history but wasn’t paid enough Famous daredevil Alex Honnold on Sunday successfully climbed a skyscraper in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, making history by achieving it without using a harness, rope or any safety equipment. And he did this in only one hour and 31 minutes, much faster than Frenchman Alain Robert who dubbed himself […]

1 month ago

One very brave daredevil Alex Honnold has successfully climbed a skyscraper in Taiwan’s capital without a harness, rope or any safety equipment. The American climber on Sunday scaled the Taipei 101 building, which is named precisely for the number of its floors. The climb was delayed by wet weather for a day, as it was […]

1 month ago

Politics and the Olympics so often go hand in hand Geopolitics can be a confusing place especially when things so often do not line up with our expectations or what we think we know. In the case of Chinese Taipei many could be forgiven for asking what country that is and where is Taiwan in […]

1 year ago

Huge rescue efforts are underway At least seven people are dead and hundreds injured after Taiwan was hit by its most powerful earthquake in 25 years. The 7.4 magnitude quake hit an area close to the city of Hualien at 07:58 local time on Wednesday (23:58 GMT). Its epicentre was 18km south of Hualien. In […]

2 years ago

America is ready to stake everything over Taiwanese chips On Tuesday evening, when Nancy Pelosi stepped off the SPAR19 in Taipei, the world once again held its breath over what might come next. Like Russian soldiers amassing at the border of Ukraine or the first reports of a deadly virus in Wuhan, there is an […]

3 years ago

It’s Taiwan’s first domestic infection in more than a month An investigation into a possible new covid-19 outbreak is underway in Taiwan after a lab worker was bitten by a mouse. The scientist, a woman in her 20s, tested positive this week after coming into contact with the virus during her work at Academia Sinica, […]

4 years ago