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Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (NYSE:TSM) expressed its commitment to Taiwan's new export control rules, Reuters reports. Taiwan's government said it would join international sanctions on Russia. "The company also has a rigorous export control system in place, including a robust assessment and review process to ensure export control restrictions are followed."…

China’s general approach to Russian actions in its neighbouring regions has been to minimise its involvement. After Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Beijing refused to recognise declarations of independence by the de facto states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, for instance.

Twenty million dollars in U.N. humanitarian funds for Ukraine

Taiwan will join "democratic countries" in putting sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, the government said on Friday, with the world's largest contract chipmaker TMSC adding it would comply with all export control rules.

Russian forces have advanced to the outskirts of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Saboteurs are already in the city, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

It’s ironic that Russia holds the presidency of the Security Council, the UN’s body delegated to make peace, just as Russia is perceived by many to be the greatest threat to that peace. Ukraine’s ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has even suggested that Russia should be removed from the Security Council. But…

One Chinese printer rejected a history text saying the ancestors of Māori came from Taiwan; another insisted that 19th Century NZ dressmakers imported their silk from the People's Republic

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry announced the incursion of nine Chinese Air Force planes Thursday morning into its air defense zone as the island nation’s government condemned Russia’s military invasion of Taiwan.

Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Thursday to warn away nine Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, Taiwan's defence ministry said, on the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine, a crisis being watched closely in Taipei.