TaiwanPlus News – 18:00, May 23, 2023

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As the annual World Health Assembly gets underway in Geneva, countries friendly to Taiwan have called for an end to seven years of being excluded due to China's objections. Rumors swirl of a pair-up between Foxconn founder Terry Gou, overlooked as the opposition Kuomintang's presidential candidate, and Taiwan People's Party chair Ko Wen-je, but Ko's office says they'll likely only collaborate on policy ideas. And TSMC has reclaimed its title as Asia's most valuable company, surpassing Chinese tech giant Tencent. Plus: - Matsu's county chief takes Andrew Ryan to an art exhibition space that was once a military brothel. - Archeologists in Tainan analyze artifacts from one of the biggest digs in Taiwan's recent history. - Two Taiwanese elementary school sisters win a "genius" prize for inventing a device that gets cats to work for their dinner.