Asia Taiwan A helicopter was used to deliver iPads to a remote mountain community in Taoyuan District, as children prepare to return to school in villages left cut off after roads and bridges were destroyed by recent flooding
Asia Taiwan The Museumbrary opened in Taichung, a 5.000-square-meter library-museum hybrid funded by a US$15 million municipal grant and private donations; targeting a 15% drop in youth readership, it expects 500.000 visitors in the first year with free admission
Asia Taiwan Taiwan and India pledged to build a resilient supply chain by combining Taiwan’s advanced technologies with India’s software talent and manufacturing incentives; the official talks aimed at efforts to diversify beyond vulnerable networks
Asia Taiwan Food waste trucks will be fitted with GPS starting on 7 December to prevent the spread of African swine fever: the outbreak of the virus in Taichung last month has suggested that the feeding of hogs with kitchen waste might have been a cause
Asia Taiwan Defense will be integrated by drones into joint-operations, tactical, and combat roles; unmanned systems will conduct long-endurance, long-range reconnaissance, surveillance, and strike missions across Taiwan's maritime and air domains