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On early Thursday morning, a 13-story building in Kaoshiung, southern Taiwan, caught fire, killing 46 people and injuring dozens, making it one of the country’s deadliest fire in decades.
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Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, has launched a pilot project to offer free period products to middle school students, a first for Taiwan and Asia.
Trending
Actor and wrestler John Cena has apologized after he called Taiwan a country in a promotional video for the latest “Fast and Furious” film, which he stars in.
Climate
Taiwan has been experiencing its worst drought in more than half a century for 18 months now after no typhoons hit the island last year.
Impact
In a landmark ruling, Taiwan has recognized a same-sex marriage between a Taiwanese man and his partner from Macau, where same-sex marriage is illegal.
world
A passenger train in Taiwan derailed on Friday Apr. 2, leaving at least 50 people dead and about 150 injured in the country’s deadliest railway accident in decades.
Activism
Tens of thousands of people in Taiwan held the world’s biggest pride march since the COVID-19 pandemic began on Saturday, after the country reported more than 200 days without a local transmission of COVID-19.
Cute
For the second year in a row, Taiwanese online shopping platform, Shopee, held a “down-to-earth” Halloween party, where attendees could only dress up as normal people
LGBTQ
The Taiwan military’s first same-sex weddings saw two women marry their wives in another landmark moment for LGBTQ rights in Asia.
Cute
The couple, Wan-ji and Sho-er, who run a laundry shop in Taichung, Taiwan, have gone viral on Instagram.