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An architect has found a way to build flood-proof homes
Can golf cure its water addiction?
Millions lack access to running water. Is the solution hiding in plain sight?
These homes are off-grid and climate resilient. They’re also built out of trash.
Hong Kong refugees captured at sea spent months plotting daring dash to freedom
For Hong Kong refugees, new life in Taiwan means traversing a legal twilight zone
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Pro-China TikTok Sock Puppets Wreak ‘Chaos’ in Taiwan’s Elections
Taiwan’s Digital Democracy Couldn’t Hack Polarization
Why Golf Might Not Survive the 21st Century
China Has a Drone Army to Fight Off Wildfires. So Why Doesn’t America?
This $108 Bamboo Home Is a Lifeline for Future Flood Victims

‘They’ll be erased’: New Mexico races to save its ancient irrigation canals

The Gospel of Disaster

Indigenous people in Philippines’s north ‘ready to fight’
Philippines beefs up northernmost defences amid China tensions
Q&A: ‘I need to be vindicated’: Leila de Lima on Duterte and the drug war
‘We will cut out your tongue’: Filipino activists recount kidnap ordeal
Philippine farmer killings revive dark memories of martial law
Coronavirus lockdown strikes fear among Manila’s poor
China-backed dam threatens Indigenous people in the Philippines
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Angry Philippine islanders are trying to stop the great nickel rush

How to Build an Earthship

COVID Has Made it Even Harder for Hong Kongers Fleeing to Taiwan
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Not Stopped Vigilante Killers in Duterte’s Philippines

Progressives: Taiwan Would Like Your Attention
Why Taiwan Won’t Welcome China’s Dissidents
China’s Delivery Drivers Rage Against the Algorithm
Duterte’s Chinese-Funded Dam Will Displace Indigenous Communities

Taiwan Learned You Can’t Fight Fake News by Making It Illegal
Activists Keep Disappearing in Marcos’s Philippines
The U.S. Has a Troublesome Asian Ally Against China
Peru’s Failed Presidential Coup Sparks Democratic Crisis
Guo Wengui Is Sending Mobs After Chinese Dissidents
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Prosecuting war crimes
The looming catastrophe of the global food shortage
The origins of NATO
A big bet on Amtrak
Bowing to Beijing

As hunger rises, Philippine authorities take aim at farmers and rural activists

Baby or a job? Stark choice for Taiwan’s migrant workers

U.S.-China rivalry hits home in this Philippine province
US asks Taiwan to fill void as Confucius Institutes close
US sale of air-to-ground missiles to Taiwan sends China a signal
Philippine drug fugitive found dead after deportation from Taiwan
Taiwan pins hopes on US election winner staying tough on China
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Coronavirus: Philippines’ one-China travel ban extends overseas workers’ anxiety
Coronavirus: hundreds of Taiwan travellers stranded in Philippines due to ban on Chinese tourists
Duterte’s anti-communist crusade entangles Filipino cultural performance group

5 spicy dishes to test your palate in Guizhou, the birthplace of Lao Gan Ma

Manila’s new China-backed airport bogged down by land reclamation controversy

This Taiwanese firewater helps heal frosty relations

How Taiwan Beat COVID-19 With Transparency and Trust

Taiwan thinks it’ll miss Trump. (It probably won’t).
Where isolation makes the case for autonomy
From the Professional Technology Temple

The killings in the Philippines grow more brazen
Taiwan voters reject Beijing, but not populism
The high seas danger to workers in Taiwan’s fishing fleet
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Guizhou’s ‘hidden character stone’: A modern myth, and a story of modern China
On the border of China and Myanmar, commerce and consternation
Young Taiwanese are dreaming of careers in China — but unification is still a nightmare
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The Philippines’ Coronavirus Lockdown Is Becoming a Crackdown
Taiwan’s Human Rights Miracle Does Not Extend to Its Southeast Asian Foreign Workers
Taiwan’s Silent Forest Wars
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