Taking the "Bottom-up" Approach

The Seventh Tang Prize Laureates Unveiled

Toward a Century of Sustainability and Justice

In 2026, the seventh Tang Prize unveiled the laureates in its four categories. Carrying forward the broad vision of an award often described as Taiwan’s Nobel Prize, this year’s honorees range from scientists who probed the Antarctic ozone hole and the inner workings of immune cells to scholar......

Transforming Cultural Sovereignty into Global Competitiveness

Austrade’s Melanie Harris on Her First Encounter with Taiwan’s Indigenous Cultures

In the afternoon at the Australian Office Taipei, Melanie Harris greets us with an easy, warm smile. Harris is Head of Indigenous Engagement and Export at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). A trailblazer, she was Australia’s first female Indigenous Trade Commissioner an......

Natural Is Best

Vitality Returns to Pinglin’s Organic Tea Farms

There are weeds in the tea farms and emerald green treefrogs in the water buckets, while pangolins and Swinhoe’s pheasants have become more frequent visitors. Over the years, Pinglin tea farmers have changed the way they cultivate their fields, and as pesticides and chemical fertilizers have b......

Tea Grown to Safeguard Water Sources

How Tse-Xin’s Work in Pinglin Brings People, Land, and Ecology into Balance

For many international visitors, bubble tea—with its rich tea-and-milk fragrance and chewy tapioca pearls—has become a shorthand for Taiwan. But bubble tea is only one facet of Taiwan’s tea culture. In the mountain district of Pinglin in northern Taiwan, a group of people is giving Taiwan tea ......

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Taking the "Bottom-up" Approach

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