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Today's Top 3 News: Prabowo Lands in Brazil to Join BRICS, Pacu Jalur 2025 Expects Surge of Spectators
Tempo.co
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July 6, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English compiled the top 3 news on Sunday, July 6, 2025. Here are the highlights: Prabowo Lands in Brazil to Join BRICS Summit; Mochizuki Speaks Out on Indonesian Women's National Team Elimination in 2026 AFC Women's...
Under China’s threat, Taiwan needs its own power sources more than ever
The Straits Times
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July 2, 2025
YILAN, Taiwan - A Chinese military magazine, Naval And Merchant Ships, recently zeroed in on one of Taiwan’s biggest vulnerabilities. The island democracy, which China claims is part of its territory and threatens to overtake, imports more than 96...
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Taiwan's VP stands firm against Beijing's intimidation tactics
Firstpost
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June 29, 2025
Taiwan’s vice president has stated that she will not be intimidated by Beijing after the government accused Chinese embassy officials of trying to smash her car during an official tour to Europe. Taiwan’s main China policy body, the Mainland...
Lotte Duty Free introduces Line Pay Taiwan at domestic stores
DFNI-Frontier
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July 1, 2025
Lotte Duty Free has introduced Line Pay Taiwan at its domestic stores in Korea, offering a simple and convenient payment system for Taiwanese customers. Line Pay Taiwan is a mobile payment service used by more than half of the Taiwanese...
Beloved TV Travel Host Dies Suddenly Just Days After His Mother: Wang Hao-yi Was 68
PopCulture
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July 1, 2025
Award-winning Taiwanese TV travel show host and writer Wang Hao-yi died Sunday in Taitung County, Taiwan at the age of 68. Wang’s passing came just five days after the star shared the heartbreaking news that his mother died at the age of 91....
China vents ire on former PH senator via travel ban
Inquirer
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July 2, 2025
Former Sen. Francis “Tol” N. Tolentino —Bibo Nueva España/Senate PRIB MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese government on Tuesday said it was imposing sanctions on a former Philippine senator over his “egregious conduct” on issues concerning Beijing,...
LETTER: Before creating the 'Guam Experience', decide the target tourist market
Pacific Daily News
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In the last month, many people have given suggestions about how to attract tourists to our island and how to enhance their experience when they visit Guam. These ideas promote important discourse and should continue. However, before we talk about...
‘Japan’s Baba Vanga’ sparks tourism panic with chilling prediction
Daily Express
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July 1, 2025
A major disaster warning from a manga artist and reported psychic has been blamed for a drop in holiday bookings to Japan. Ryo Tatsuki, often heralded as the country's answer to the Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, is thought to have correctly...
SITA leads biometric-powered check-in upgrade at Taipei Songshan Airport
Biometric Update
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July 1, 2025
Taipei Songshan Airport is upgrading its check-in counters to streamline the check-in experience with SITA leading the change. SITA will deploy self-service and biometrics-powered technology to help Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA) future-proof its...
Visa-free entry for Taiwanese starts – BI
Philstar
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July 1, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday said Taiwanese tourists could avail themselves of a 14-day visa-free entry to boost tourism and strengthen diplomatic reciprocity in the country. The BI said that this is in compliance...
NICHOLAS SHUBITZ: US travel bans gift Africa to China
BusinessLIVE
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Having failed to cut government spending, reindustrialise the US with tariffs or deliver on much-touted peace proposals, the Trump administration appears to be using mass deportations and travel bans as a means of proving that it is making...
Chugai Pharma Taiwan wins two awards at AREA
Taipei Times
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June 30, 2025
Chugai Pharma Taiwan Ltd (台灣中外製藥) on Friday was honored at the prestigious Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA), receiving accolades in the Green Leadership and Social Empowerment categories. It was the fourth consecutive year the company has...
Taiwan VP says not intimidated after alleged China plot
Digital Journal
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June 29, 2025
Hsiao Bi-khim was vice president-elect at the time of her visit to the Czech Republic - Copyright TAIPEI NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER ASSOCIATION/AFP/File Handout Taiwan’s vice president said she would not be intimidated by Beijing after the government...
Unlicensed ambulance driver kills scooter rider in Taipei
Focus Taiwan
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July 1, 2025
Taipei, July 1 (CNA) An unlicensed ambulance driver ran a red light on Tuesday and crashed into a scooter in Taipei while transporting a patient to a hospital, killing the scooter rider, according to the police. The scooter rider was traveling...
Wen-tao Cheng, celebrated Taiwanese poet and Yale faculty member
Yale University - Connecticut
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July 1, 2025
Wen-tao Cheng (Cheng, Wen-tao), a distinguished Chinese poet and senior lector emeritus in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, died on June 13 in New Haven. He was 91. Also known by his pen name, Zheng Chou-yu (鄭愁予), he taught at Yale...
Whooping cough cases hit 10-year high in Taiwan, surge in June
Focus Taiwan
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July 1, 2025
Taipei, July 1 (CNA) Taiwan has reported a total of 35 domestic whooping cough cases in the first half of 2025, the highest for the same period in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday. Seventeen new cases were recorded in...
Visa study identifies continued business potential in Asia-Pacific for luxury tourism
TTG Asia
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July 1, 2025
A market intelligence update presented by Visa Business and Economic Insights at the Opening Forum for ILTM Asia Pacific 2025 on Monday evening has painted a promising picture for luxury tourism industry stakeholders. Visa sees opportunities in an...
Lotte Duty Free taps into growing Taiwanese market with LINE Pay Taiwan launch
The Moodie Davitt Report
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July 1, 2025
SOUTH KOREA. Lotte Duty Free has today (1 July) introduced LINE Pay Taiwan across all of its domestic stores starting this month, enhancing payment convenience for Taiwanese travellers. The initiative reflects growing visitor numbers from Taiwan...
YouTrip: 1 in 4 Singaporeans visited multiple destinations during recent June holidays
Hardware Zone
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July 1, 2025
It’s time to kaypoh and learn what our Singaporean peers have been up to during the recent June 2025 school holidays. According to YouTrip’s latest travel trends report, Singaporeans were excellent at maximising their rightful reprieve. 1 in 4...
Palau, Japan, Taiwan partner to develop pollution-free salt industry, wellness tourism
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
MELEKEOK, Palau (June 26, 2025) — A delegation of Japanese and Taiwanese entrepreneurs is partnering with Palau to develop a pollution-free salt industry and promote sustainable wellness tourism, following the signing of a memorandum of...