Photo by Winston Chen on Unsplash Enhancing joint efforts to combat transnational crime through real-time intelligence exchange Founded in 1923, INTERPOL currently has 196 member states, making it the world’s second-largest international organization after the United Nations. INTERPOL is an essential platform for global law enforcement cooperation. It closely monitors transnational criminal activity including terrorism,…
Photo credit: Octavian Carare A senior Taiwan government minister has become the first to give a speech in a foreign parliament. Speaking on Friday (7 November) Taiwan’s Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim gave what has been hailed as an unprecedented address at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China’s Annual Summit in the European Parliament in Brussels. She…
Photo by Peter Ralphski on Unsplash Aligning with the world to confront climate risks while energizing broad participation to achieve sustainable development. Climate change is rapidly reshaping the global economic structure and risk landscape. Taiwan is not immune to this growing challenge. In the summer of 2025, southern and eastern Taiwan were struck by successive…
Taiwan’s new ambassador in Brussels has made an impassioned plea for his nation’s sovereignty to be respected. Speaking on Tuesday (30 September) at a reception to mark the Country’s National Day, Professor Dr Shieh Jhy-Wey, who took up his new post only a week ago, said, “Sometimes I am asked: why not just give up?…
Photo by Hieu on Unsplash The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) convenes its Assembly once every three years, writes Chen Shih-kai. During the event, multilateral meetings and discussions are held to draw up global civil aviation regulations and standards. Nations abide by the conclusions drawn at the Assembly, ensuring the safe and orderly growth of…
Photo by MW on Unsplash Today, the world faces mounting uncertainties and challenges from prolonged conflicts and democratic backsliding to economic coercion and disinformation campaigns. Authoritarian regimes increasingly employ gray-zone tactics that undermine the rules-based international order. In this fragile global environment, peace cannot be taken for granted. Democracies must unite to bolster resilience and…
Taiwan has teamed up with a top Belgian artist to draw attention to the emerging security concern of alleged sabotage of undersea cables. A spokesman at the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium said that in order to highlight what it calls growing threats to undersea cable infrastructure it had teamed up with…
Photo by You-Chen Hsu on Unsplash Climate change has greatly affected countries around the world. As a member of the international community, Taiwan also faces serious challenges in this area. In recent years, we have witnessed the most severe drought in a century, intense rainfall, and devastating typhoons, writes Peng Chi-ming. President Lai Ching-te is…
Photo by Tom Ritson on Unsplash Taiwan’s ambassador to the EU and Belgium has hit out at what he calls distorted claims about the island by China. Ambassador Roy Chun Lee, Representative of the Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium, was speaking on Wednesday. He told an audience in Brussels…
As the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) convenes in New York, the global community has once again come together to address the many pressing issues facing the world today. This year’s General Debate, which began on September 24th, centres on the theme of “leaving no one behind: acting together for…
