Representatives of U.S. defense contractors have attended the Taiwan-U.S. Defense Industry Forum in Taipei, pledging future cooperation to help Taiwan's domestic weapons programs. But the scheduled delivery of F-16V fighters from the U.S. to Taiwan has been delayed by two years. And Taiwan has held an event to honor those who served during the COVID-19 pandemic and remember those who died. But flight crews are taking legal action against the government over policies that affected them during the period. Also:
- North Korea, China and Vietnam rank bottom in the latest Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders.
- Taiwan is facing a thorny problem: the offspring of abandoned pets, green iguanas have become an invasive species in the wild.
- How engineers in Taiwan are making electric bikes even more eco-friendly.