As candidates register for Taiwan's legislative election in January, which will be held alongside the presidential vote, TaiwanPlus looks at Taiwan's system of government and what it would mean to have a divided government from next year. The EU reports successive days where the average global temperature was 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a dangerous threshold for efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change. And Israel and Hamas have reached a hostage release deal, with a four-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
- A new survey shows the large majority of people in Taiwan don't trust China — and an increasing number don't trust the U.S. either.
- Nominated for many awards at this year's Golden Horse Awards, "Eye of the Storm" presents a gripping dramatization of the 2003 SARS outbreak in a Taipei hospital.
- A look at the descendants of the Republic of China forces who became based in Southeast Asia following the Chinese Civil War: the "Lost Army."