Under the Dome, Rendering the Future:

Sensory Experiments and Taiwan’s Trajectory at Future Vision Lab 2026

On the east lawn of the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), a striking silver hemisphere sits quietly, resembling a powerful sensory engine embedded within the urban landscape.......

A Rare Taiwan Raptor Graces the Big Screen:

Inside the Documentary Fly! Mountain Hawk-Eagle

Deep within Taiwan’s precipitous mountain forests soars a massive silhouette—the Mountain Hawk-Eagle. Known as the legendary king of the sky, this endangered raptor is a sacred ancestral symbol for the Paiwan and Rukai Indigenous peoples and Taiwan’s most mysterious bird of prey. After 12 year......

Sustainable Silicon:

TSMC’s Innovative Model of Environmental Stewardship

It cannot be overstated how important water is to semiconductor wafer fabs. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has set a goal of becoming “water positive” by 2030, meaning that the company will replenish more water than it consumes. Striving to maximize the efficient use of ever......

A New Approach to Organic and Eco

-Friendly Agriculture

Organic agriculture in Taiwan is currently transitioning to a new model that moves beyond “subtraction” (no use of pesticides) to “addition” (constructing symbiotic ecological communities).......

Organic, Eco-Friendly, and Sustainable Farming

—East Asia’s First Organic Agriculture Research Center

In subtropical Taiwan, where farmers face numerous plant pests and diseases, agricultural agencies have constructed a body of knowledge and systems for organic farming covering everything from breeding and cultivation techniques and technologies to crop protection products and agricultural mac......

Sustainability as Taiwan’s Motive Force

—A Chat with Ambassador-at-Large Eugene Chien

What should Taiwan do as the world seeks a global transition to a net-zero economy? Dr. Eugene Chien, chairman of the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy (TAISE) and Taiwan’s ambassador-at-large for climate change and sustainability, feels that the nation’s keys to success are to “react qu......

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Sustainable Taiwan

Facing climate change and limited resources, progress toward “net-zero transition” has become a key indicator of national and corporate competitiveness. This month we take you across Taiwan to visit sites of “green resilience” and see our island’s astonishingly innovative solutions.......

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Rural Renaissance: From Rustic Fare to Fine Local Dining

While everyone is pursuing exquisite dishes made by internationally famous chefs, have you ever stopped to try the delicious flavors of Taiwan’s rural cuisine? In this month’s Cover Story, we explore the revolution in “new local tastes” brought about by members of the “Tian Mama” certified eat......

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Landscapes and Lifestyles

What is this “Taiwan” that we take for granted? We have long been used to viewing the ocean through car windows or exploring the mountains via artificially built trails. However, in this month’s Cover Story, we have tried to turn our attention in bolder directions. When one’s perspective chang......

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Taiwanese Style Takes On the World

Reading the stories in this issue, I felt as if I was in a London market smelling the aromas of licorice and star anise wafting in the air, seeing that tree of uncertain identity—mandarin or pomelo?—in the backyard of an old house on Kinmen, and feeling the moist ceramic clay handled by four g......

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The Making of Champions

What is the measure of a country? Is it territory or population, or is it the way its light shines in the inter­national community? In this month’s Taiwan Panorama, you will see an island that is small but resilient, using its astonishing capabilities in the fields of sports, artisanship, scie......

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Telling Taiwan’s Story to the World

For the last five decades, Taiwan Panorama has faithfully recorded Taiwan’s transformation and growth. We have witnessed the change from all-out pursuit of economic growth to environmental sustainability, and the progress of freedom, including women’s participation in society and the legalizat......