The air incident took place in Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) when two Chinese fighter jets executed a dangerous manoeuvre at around 9 a.m. and dropped flares in the path of the NC-212i on August 8.
According to a recent study by Pulse Consultant, of those currently struggling to make ends meet, 60 per cent have had to cut back on essential expenses, including groceries, while 40 per cent have resorted to borrowing money from their acquaintances.
The Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) and more than a dozen other overseas groups, in a letter, urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow Taiwan's team to compete under the name "Taiwan" rather than "Chinese Taipei", reported Focus Taiwan.
The Taiwan Supreme Court has upheld the lower court's prison sentences of two retired members of the Taiwan Army, who were found guilty of attempting to collect military intelligence for China, reported Focus Taiwan.
Of the eight Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), three aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southeastern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) denounced China's new regulations targeting Taiwan's independence advocates as "escalatory and destabilising" and urged China to engage in constructive dialogue with Taiwan and maintain the existing status quo that has upheld regional peace for years.
The exercise on Friday is the first such joint activity between the coast guards of the two countries amid ongoing territorial disputes with each other and, more significantly with China, which claims almost the entire South China Sea as its own.
In a significant push for greater unity and action, Salih Hudayar, a prominent Uyghur-American politician known for advocating for East Turkistan independence, has emphasized the need for increased collaboration to tackle the independence struggles of regions under Chinese and Pakistani c
The East Turkistan National Movement, dedicated to highlighting human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, welcomed the US government's decision to ban goods produced with Uyghur forced labour.