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

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

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

Kinmen County Government with conservation group Aquatic Renewal Workshop released the endemic large-scale lesser-bream into Kinmen’s Qingtian Reservoir; extinct on Taiwan’s main island since 1920s, Kinmen may now serve as the species’ last natural refuge

Super typhoon Ragasa has hit Taiwan, leaving at least 14 dead and 124 missing as torrential rains, 200 km/h winds in eastern Hualien broke a water barrier, flooding the town of Guangfu; over 700 flights were canceled, alerts issued in China and Hong Kong