Global bodies should stop excluding Taiwan for political reasons, President Lai Ching-te told Pope Francis in a letter, adding that he agrees war has no winners.

Climate change has seriously affected inflation over the past three years, Greenpeace said today, but the Ministry of Environment warned that the cause of rising prices requires more research.

President Lai Ching-te urged global bodies to include Taiwan for overcoming global issues rather than political reasons. Though the Vatican, one of the few nations maintaining formal ties with Taiwan,

But Ms Jao is reluctant to become a wu nu, or “housing slave”, she says. That is slang for young homebuyers who feel trapped by their expensive mortgages. Taiwan’s youngsters are not exaggerating when they call homeownership a burden.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future

For the last year, analysts have warned that the data centers needed for AI would drive up power demand and, by extension, emissions as utilities build out natural gas infrastructure to help meet demand.

China raced ahead building renewable energy last year, installing more wind and solar power than ever before and continuing to leave all other countries in the dust.

Taiwan aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. It’s phasing out all nuclear power by next year, then tackling transportation which is one of the biggest source of emissions. About 14 million people in Taiwan ride mopeds and 8 million drive cars. By 2040 and beyond, all buses, mopeds and cars will be electric.

Images from the past five days lay bare the trail of destruction caused by bush blazes that spiralled beyond control with fatal consequences

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te appealed on Monday in his Lunar New Year message for harmony between the ruling and opposition parties, amid a standoff over the opposition slashing this year's budget.

He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world.

Last November, at the G20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, vowed to bring forward by a decade the date at which Southeast Asia’s biggest economy would remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as it emits.