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Profound impacts are already being felt by students－and parents and teachers－due to closure of schools in Asia in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and urgent action is needed to limit further damage to students and the broader economy.

By Liu Xinyan In a cave at the Yungang Grottoes, an ancient Chinese Buddhist site in Datong city, north China's Shanxi Province, several technicians were taking close-up photogrammetry and collecting image data with instruments such as HD cameras, station scanners and 3D laser scanners. "We are collecting digital information about…

Women in Taiwan often say “my aunt is visiting” (大姨媽來了) or “my ‘that’ is here” (那個來) when their menstrual cycle arrives — but there are no euphemisms to describe it at the Red House Period Museum (小紅厝月經博物館), which opened on Thursday. “Due to a lack of understanding, fear of blood and various taboos, the period has historically and globally been something that cannot be discussed publicly,” a display on period stigma at the museum states. “Or, ...

Taipei, June 25 (CNA) Torrential rain toppled a 20-meter high tree that crushed a vehicle parked along the roadside and blocked two lanes of a road in Taipei on Saturday afternoon.

Taipei has been named the 10th best city in the world for quality of living in an annual survey by the editors of Monocle, a UK-based global affairs and lifestyle magazine. The survey, which is to be published in the magazine’s July/August issue, selected the world’s top 25 cities based on factors including cost of living, retail, hospitality, culture and access to green spaces, as well as feedback from Monocle correspondents. Taipei’s 10th place finish was one place down from a year earli...

Another Chairman of Onetime Coal Giant Datong Falls to a Corruption Probe - Guo Jingang is the third head of the company’s board in 10 years to be the target of an anti-graft investigation

The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has completed the Shunchang Museum in China with a central public plaza.

Years of study and research have raised Shanxi sculptor and trainer to inheritor status

Fifteen smartphones attained information security certification from the National Communications Commission (NCC), including 10 manufactured by five Chinese smartphone makers. NCC Deputy Chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) said that the commission tested 15 smartphones from the third quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year. The commission selected China-made smartphones and some of the best-selling smartphones during the first half of last year, Wong said. Only Appl...

By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterFifteen smartphones attained information security certification from the National Communications Commission （NCC）, including 10 manufactured by five Chinese smartphone makers.