Ben Shapiro: President Trump is right about China
President Trump’s latest foray into the world of international economics — his ongoing trade war with China — has been widely derided by his critics. It’s been derided on the grounds that More...
PRC Company and three Individuals Charged with Economic Espionage
A federal grand jury indicted a state-owned enterprise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), a Taiwan company, and three individuals, charging them with crimes related to a conspiracy to steal, convey, and More...
Singapore Placed 13th in Human Capital Investments
Singapore is an island full of opportunities both for its citizens and foreigners. Recently, the state has been ranked number 13 for human capital investment. This is according to a study conducted by experts from More...
Dengue fever: In the East and in the West
The World Health Organization (WHO) says dengue fever is a fast emerging pandemic-prone viral disease in many parts of the world. Female Aedes aegypti mosquito Image/James Gathany The incidence of dengue has increased More...
Tainan City tops 12,000 dengue cases as Taiwan heads toward record season
With the addition of some 600 new locally acquired dengue fever cases Monday, the Taiwanese southern city of Tainan has eclipsed the 12,000 case mark, now standing at 12,066. The grand total number of cases on the More...
Dengue fever: Taiwan cases continue to surge, Delhi has record August
Taiwan continues to see the surge of dengue fever this summer as health officials put the case count at 4,343 so far this summer. This is the worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito borne virus on the island country More...
Uncovered Atrocities: Korean Comfort Women
Like a wound that keeps festering, the “Korean comfort women “is an issue that refuses to die down and seek closure. Yet, more than two decades ago, its Indonesian and Philippine counterparts had reached a resolution More...
Shark Week’ set for a July return on Discovery
SHARK WEEK, television’s most anticipated week of shark filled television, kicks off this year on July 5 (through the 12th), earlier than ever before. In addition to SHARK WEEK in July, Discovery will also premiere More...
Taiwan: 9-year-old boy has a stroke, How common is pediatric stroke?
A report from the news source, Focus Taiwan today tells the story of a 9-year-old male child who suffered a stroke. It explains the child was a sedentary boy who played video games and ate a diet largely of foods More...
Taiwan: Girl contracts Acanthamoeba after leaving contacts in for 6 months
A Taiwanese girl contracted a relatively rare amoeba after leaving her disposable contact lens in for six months, causing her corneas to shrink to half their normal size, according to an Emirates 24/7 report today. Image/CDC The More...
Taiwan reports first ‘locally acquired’ dengue case of the summer, first indigenous cholera case
The Taiwan Center for Disease Control (CDC) is advising the public about removing mosquito breeding sites after health officials reported the first autochthonous case of dengue fever this summer. Image/CIA The patient More...
Taiwan CDC: Fourth imported case of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed, second in a week
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed another imported human case of H7N9 avian influenza from China travel, according a Focus Taiwan report today. Under a high magnification, this negatively-stained More...
Taiwan reports upticks in typhoid, paratyphoid
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control is reporting more cases of typhoid and paratyphoid than usual this year, according to a press release Wednesday. Image/CIA Since Jan. 1, a total of 7 typhoid fever cases have More...
China: Jilin province reports human H7N9 avian influenza infection, Taiwan-based Adimmune Corp to begin vaccine production this summer
The Jilin Provincial Government Information Office announced it’s first human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in a 50-year-old man residing in Changchun, according to a Chinese news source (computer translated). This More...
Norovirus sickens nearly 250 Taiwan tourists in South Korea
About 60 percent of the 412 Taiwanese tourists visiting South Korea have been sickened by the symptoms of the gastrointestinal bug, norovirus, according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in a Taipai More...
Taiwan health officials report second imported human H7N9 bird flu case in Chinese tourist
Officials with the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed the second imported human case of H7N9 avian influenza this year in a Chinese tourist, according to a Focus Taiwan News Channel report today. This More...
Taiwan: Taipai McDonalds goes cosplay
A McDonald’s restaurant in Taipai Station has gone cosplay- employees in Japanese-style schoolgirl outfit, knee-high stockings and cat ears, and its been a hit with positive responses from all over the internet, More...
Journal reports on first human avian influenza A H6N1 case in Taiwan woman
Over the summer, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported on the first case of human infection with avian influenza A (H6N1) virus. An epidemiological analysis of this first ever human infection is More...
Elderly Pingtung City woman is Taiwan’s first dengue fatality
With the recent surge of indigenous dengue fever cases in Taiwan’s Pintung County, health offcials report the island country’s first dengue-related fatality, according to a Taiwan CDC news release More...
Taiwan health officials say combative macaques may be positive for herpes B
Taiwanese health officials say a couple of the aggressive Formosan macaques that attacked visitors to Yushan National Park have something resembling herpes B virus in their mouths, according to a Focus Taiwan More...
