Airline Fuel Surcharges Set To Surge – April 1, 2026
Taiwanese airlines are set to hike ticket prices due to the rising cost of fuel, with surcharges more than doubling for long-haul flights. Four US senators wrap up their visit to Taipei on a security partner tour in the Indo-Pacific region. And two European Union delegations are making simultaneous visits to Taiwan and China, but how do they view tensions across the Taiwan Strait? Plus: - In a jam? Not these rose farmers. Enterprising gardeners have found a profitable way to use some local varieties even as overall production is struggling. - Tokyo says it has deployed long-range missiles to southwestern Japan amid tensions with Beijing. - TaiwanPlus sits down with the English-language translator of Yang Shuang-zi's "Taiwan Travelogue," the first Taiwanese novel to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
