This year's Ketagalan Forum has opened in Taipei, with former Japanese Prime Minister Aso Taro addressing the conference on Indo-Pacific security issues. U.S. President Joe Biden has approved the first stage of a trade pact with Taiwan, though he raised "constitutional concerns" with the agreement. And a memorial has been unveiled in southern Taiwan to remember the thousands of young Taiwanese who volunteered to assist Imperial Japan's war effort in the latter days of World War II. Also:
- August 8 is Father's Day in Taiwan. Rik Glauert speaks to a same-sex couple who won a landmark legal case in order to adopt their daughter.
- The heads of several cities and counties in Taiwan have come together to address how to make the country's roads safer for pedestrians.
- Taiwanese performers are taking their distinctive expressions of dance and circus arts to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest performing arts festival.
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