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7 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
CNN's 'Next Stop' - Will Ripley visits Taiwan to uncover the island's way of embracing health and wellness
HONG KONG, July 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Though small, Taiwan is home to diverse natural landscapes – from lush mountain forests to alpine lakes and tropical beaches – ideal for rejuvenation and relaxation. In this episode of CNN's Next Stop, Senior International Correspondent Will Ripley uncovers the different aspects of the island that make it a prime destination for health and wellness. A testament to its resiliency, despite a decline in tourist numbers in recent years, Taiwan is steadily emerging as a destination for wellness experiences that nurture both mind and body, driven by the efforts of individuals, initiatives, and businesses committed to showcasing the island's unique beauty. For more than a decade, Taiwan has invested hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars in its cycling infrastructure – including a route that stretches nearly 1,000 kilometers around the entire island. The popularity of Taiwan's cycling scene is said to originate from its homegrown brand, Giant – the world's largest bicycle manufacturer. But beyond manufacturing, the brand is also capitalizing on cycling tourism, offering dozens of different cycling tours across the island. CNN visits the picturesque Sun Moon Lake with Amos Lin, Giant's senior product marketing planner, to understand more about the rise of cycling tourism in Taiwan. For the tastebuds, Taiwan is known around the world for bubble tea – the popular, trendy beverage of tea paired with milk and tapioca pearls. However, Taiwan's history of growing, producing and exporting tea goes back more than 150 years. Lionel Lin, a third-generation farmer who runs " Teascent Valley" that grows, produces, and distributes its own brand of tea, explains how Taiwan is renowned for its oolong tea, with the Alishan high mountain variant one of the most famous. In a bid to gain access to international markets, Lionel is leveraging social media to share this staple of traditional Taiwanese culture with people across the globe. And with Taiwan emerging as a destination for health and wellness tourism, one firm is seeking to offer these experiences with greater convenience. KKday, a Taiwanese travel e-commerce company that connects people with experiences across the world, allows customers to book dining, accommodations, special tours and more, directly from their website or app. Looking to the future, co-founder and COO, Weichun Liu, emphasizes the need to invest in advanced technology to remain relevant amidst growing competition in the industry. Airtimes for 30-minute special: Saturday, 19 th July at 12:30pm HKT Sunday, 20 th July at 6pm HKT Monday, 21 st July at 1:30am HKT About CNN International CNN's portfolio of news and information services is available in seven different languages across all major TV, digital and mobile platforms, reaching more than 379 million households around the globe. CNN International is the number one international TV news channel according to all major media surveys across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific region, and Latin America and has a US presence that includes CNNgo. CNN Digital is a leading network for online news, mobile news and social media. CNN is at the forefront of digital innovation and continues to invest heavily in expanding its digital global footprint, with a suite of award-winning digital properties and a range of strategic content partnerships, commercialised through a strong data-driven understanding of audience behaviours. CNN has won multiple prestigious awards around the world for its journalism. Around 1,000 hours of long-form series, documentaries and specials are produced every year by CNNI's non-news programming division. CNN has 36 editorial offices and more than 1,100 affiliates worldwide through CNN Newsource. CNN International is a Warner Bros. Discovery company.
02-07-2025
- Business
Award-winning international correspondent launches a new journalism platform
NEW YORK -- Jane Ferguson has won awards for unflinching reporting from dangerous lands including Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. So she was unlikely to be intimidated by seeking financing for a new journalism platform, despite tough times for the news industry. 'It's very high pressure,' said Ferguson, founder of Noosphere. 'I'm used to pressure in the field.' Started this year, Noosphere offers journalists a place to showcase work to consumers who are attracted by a more personal style of reporting than they'd normally see on traditional outlets. It's similar to Substack, with a twist. Instead of paying for feeds of individual journalists — the Substack model — people who subscribe to Noosphere for $14.99 a month get access to all of its journalists. There are 20 so far, expected to increase to 24 with the site's upcoming British launch. Noosphere — named to reference a state of consciousness advanced by Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — arrives at a time of flux in the news industry. Consumers are fleeing newspapers and television news and trying different approaches springing up in a new media world. Ferguson raised $1 million to get Noosphere off the ground and is about to announce an additional round of investment. Ferguson, 40, grew up in Northern Ireland, and was attracted to the high-stakes, high-risk world of international reporting. For CNN International and then PBS NewsHour, she worked largely alone, covering stories about famine and war crimes in South Sudan, the conflict in Syria and Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal in 2021. The latter experience left her shell-shocked and heartbroken, wondering if she'd reached the end of that phase of her career. 'I had been on the road for 15 years,' she said. 'I was exhausted, and in some respects, burnt out.' She settled in the United States, teaching — and learning — at Princeton. She took classes in entrepreneurship and built contacts in the business world. Ferguson knew how many of her former international colleagues had to hustle to find outlets for their work, and envisioned Noosphere as a landing spot. Her business partner, Seb Walker, worked at Vice Media, known for its strong international reporting before filing for bankruptcy in 2023. 'It's gotten a lot harder to continue making a living doing this,' said Matthew Cassell, an international correspondent whose credits include Vice. A member of Noosphere's inaugural class of journalists, Cassell has posted videos giving his perspectives on the Israel-Iran war, along with recent reporting from the West Bank. Shrouq Al Aila contributed video from Gaza, showing efforts to distribute aid as the sound of gunfire is heard in the background. Oren Ziv reported from a missile strike in Israel, walking through a hospital's shattered hallways to show the destruction. 'It feels like a really high-quality reporter is Face-Timing you from the field,' Ferguson said, 'which is really cool.' News consumers, particularly young ones, are souring on more stilted, conventional television news reporting, said veteran journalist Kate O'Brian, who is on Noosphere's board of directors. 'The stage has been set for an audience who wants to hear directly from the journalist,' O'Brian said. Ferguson envisions a reporting staff that is roughly half international, half based in the United States. Former CNN journalist Chris Cillizza reports on Washington for Noosphere. Her biggest signing to date is former 'Meet the Press' moderator Chuck Todd. He started a Sunday night show in June, with 'War Room' host Steve Bannon and Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council, as his first guests. Todd has hired the former producer for Charlie Rose's PBS talk show, a clue to his ambitions for an eclectic show interviewing interesting people from politics and business. 'Jane's hard to say no to,' Todd said. 'Like any smart executive, she knows what she doesn't know, and goes to find smart people who she thinks know more." Ferguson's bet is that audiences can only afford so many Substack subscriptions to individual journalists, and that Noosphere will offer access to more at a set price. She's also talked to news outlets interested in acquiring some of the reporters' work. The challenge to getting Noosphere established is an increasingly crowded marketplace, and several of her journalists aren't household names. Noosphere journalists are paid a percentage of subscription fees, and given a greater amount if a subscriber specifically cites that contributor's work in signing on. Ferguson will not say how many subscribers she has yet. 'Substack created a market that did not exist before and I give them huge kudos for that,' O'Brian said. 'This is just a different way of approaching it.' To succeed, 'you have to offer a lot,' Todd said. 'You can't just offer one or two things. Every hot spot around the world, Noosphere will have journalists on the ground. They have a reasonable chance to be very successful in their lane. The question is how big the lane can get.' Todd said Noosphere's advantage is that it has been created by reporters, a distinction from the lack of journalism experience found among executives in the business, he said. Ferguson, too, has wondered whether journalism can survive the diminishment or death of news organizations. 'The solution for the problems of the industry are going to come from journalists and not media executives,' she said.
CNN
26-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
See how China copes with heat wave
See how China copes with heat wave Chinese cities, including Beijing, have been dealing with soaring temperatures this week. CNN International Correspondent Marc Stewart shows how people are coping. 01:12 - Source: CNN Tourists capture drone video of Brazilian hiker tragedy 26-year-old Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins died after nearly four days of search and rescue operations when she fell hundreds of meters from a ridge near volcano Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's island of Lombok, authorities said. 01:28 - Source: CNN Trump maintains Iran strikes caused 'total obliteration' US President Donald Trump reiterated his claim that US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities caused 'total obliteration,' although he acknowledged the intelligence was 'inconclusive' and preliminary. An initial classified report, revealed in a CNN exclusive, found that the attack only set back Tehran's nuclear program by a few months. 00:57 - Source: CNN CNN speaks to victim of syringe attack in France Nearly 150 people in France reported being pricked with syringes during a nationwide street music festival at the weekend. It remains unclear if date-rape drugs were used in the attacks. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne spoke to one of the victims and reports. 01:46 - Source: CNN Why Japan has a rice crisis 01:17 - Source: CNN Reporter asks Trump if he wants regime change in Iran When questioned about Iran while aboard Air Force 1, President Trump addressed whether he desires a change in the countries' regime. 00:58 - Source: CNN At least 49 people killed near aid sites in Gaza over 24-hour period At least 49 people have been killed near aid distribution sites or while waiting for aid trucks across Gaza over just 24 hours, according to Palestinian health officials. CNN's Nada Bashir reports on the latest aid site developments in Gaza. 01:07 - Source: CNN US strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say The US military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by three people briefed on it. 00:49 - Source: CNN Meet the 'Maple MAGA' of Alberta Separatists in the Canadian province of Alberta are courting votes for a referendum that could start the process for the province to secede from the rest of the country. Here's a look into what's motivating the movement. 02:50 - Source: CNN Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran President Donald Trump condemned both Iran and Israel as the ceasefire he brokered between the two countries appeared to grow more fragile. Trump was critical of both sides, but reserved his harshest condemnation for Israel, who he said 'unloaded' on Iran 'as soon as we made the deal.' 02:01 - Source: CNN Air defenses remain active in Iran after ceasefire announcement CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports anti-aircraft fire lighting up the sky over the Iranian capital Tehran, after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. 01:26 - Source: CNN Zakaria reacts to Trump's claim of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran CNN's Fareed Zakaria reacts to President Donald Trump announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran which he says he hopes to become permanent. Neither Iran nor Israel has made any comments about a pending ceasefire. 01:39 - Source: CNN Why Iran possibly warned Qatar about its attack ahead of time CNN's Clarissa Ward is in Tel Aviv as Iran launched strikes towards a US military base in neighboring Qatar, but according to one source, the Iranians warned the Qataris that the strikes were coming. In short, the US likely knew ahead of time. Ward breaks down why Tehran issued the warning and what it did. 01:15 - Source: CNN National security analyst explains why Iran's strike in Qatar was 'a gamble' National security analyst Peter Bergen details why Iran's strike against a US airbase in Qatar was "a gamble" considering the relationship between the two countries. 00:58 - Source: CNN World leaders divided after US attack on Iran The UN Security Council was deeply divided during an emergency session called after US military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. 01:27 - Source: CNN Why the Strait of Hormuz is so significant As Iran threatens to disrupt and close the Strait of Hormuz, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh breaks down why this narrow passage is so important. 00:58 - Source: CNN CNN team witnesses Israeli strike on Tehran Israeli airstrikes rocked the north of Tehran on Monday. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen shows the aftermath of the attack. 01:14 - Source: CNN Iranians demonstrate against US strikes US President Donald Trump's decision to launch direct strikes against Iranian nuclear sites has sparked a wave of anger in the country, with people on the streets of Tehran telling CNN they expect their country to strike back. 01:33 - Source: CNN Satellite images show before and after US strikes in Iran Iran's largest nuclear complex was dealt a series of severe blows in US strikes on Sunday, a CNN analysis of satellite imagery found. See the before and after images, provided by Maxar Technologies, showing the damage visible at three of Iran's nuclear facilities. Initial damage assessments to the three sites are ongoing, according to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. 00:54 - Source: CNN
National Observer
25-06-2025
- Business
- National Observer
Carney, NATO allies will debate new defence spending target today
NATO leaders are expected to decide today whether to more than double the alliance's defence spending target. Prime Minister Mark Carney is among the leaders around the table at the annual leaders' summit in The Hague, where a proposal is being discussed to increase the target to five per cent of annual GDP, up from the current two per cent. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte 's proposal would break that into two parts. The first 3.5 per cent would be for core defence needs including jets and weapons, and the remaining 1.5 per cent on defence-adjacent investments including infrastructure and cybersecurity. Before the official meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Carney held bilateral meetings with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, and the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kristen Michal. The agenda was delayed Wednesday, with leaders still arriving as of 10:30 a.m., when their meeting was scheduled to begin. Carney told CNN International on Tuesday that Canada will reach the target in part by developing deposits of critical minerals and that some of the work will be done in partnership with the European Union, EU member states, the U.K. and other allies. He also said five per cent of GDP would mean a $150 billion defence budget for Canada. NATO said in 2024 Canada spent $41 billion. All 32 NATO member states have to agree on a new spending target and will also have to debate the timeline for its implementation. US President Donald Trump left Washington for The Hague on Tuesday. Even before his arrival, Trump had a major effect on the summit. Earlier this year, Trump suggested the US might abandon its commitments to the alliance if member countries don't meet their defence spending targets. The president generated more uncertainty Tuesday when he said his commitment to the mutual defence guarantee in the NATO treaty "depends on your definition" of that guarantee. Pressed later by reporters, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said he has no doubt about the US commitment to NATO and Article 5, the portion of the NATO treaty which says an armed attack on one member is an attack on all. Trump, who has long accused the alliance of not paying its fair share toward the cost of its defence, is also the key driver behind the plan to hike members' defence spending target. At a dinner event with NATO leaders Tuesday, Rutte thanked Trump for pushing for a spending hike and getting Europe to "truly step up." Kerry Buck, the former Canadian ambassador to NATO, told The Canadian Press that it's in the interests of Canada and European allies to keep the US in NATO as "deep and as long as possible." "Whatever we can do to get through this NATO summit with few public rifts between the US and other allies on anything, and satisfy a very long-standing US demand to rebalance defence spending, that will be good for Canada because NATO's good for Canada," Buck said. Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany have all committed to the five per cent goal. NATO nations closer to the borders of Ukraine, Russia and its ally Belarus have also pledged to do so. But some are balking, including Spain and Slovakia. Rutte warned Monday that no country can opt out of the target and that progress made toward the new target will be reviewed in four years.
Winnipeg Free Press
25-06-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Carney, NATO allies to debate new defence spending target today
THE HAGUE – NATO leaders are expected to decide today whether to more than double the alliance's defence spending target. Prime Minister Mark Carney is among the leaders around the table at the annual leaders' summit in The Hague, where a proposal is being discussed to increase the target to five per cent of annual GDP, up from the current two per cent. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte's proposal would break that into two parts. The first 3.5 per cent would be for core defence needs including jets and weapons, and the remaining 1.5 per cent on defence-adjacent investments including infrastructure and cybersecurity. Carney told CNN International on Tuesday that Canada will reach the target in part by developing deposits of critical minerals and that some of the work will be done in partnership with the European Union, EU member states, the U.K. and other allies. He also said five per cent of GDP would mean a $150 billion defence budget for Canada. NATO said in 2024 Canada spent $41 billion. All 32 NATO member states have to agree on a new spending target and will also have to debate the timeline for its implementation. U.S. President Donald Trump left Washington for The Hague on Tuesday. Even before his arrival, Trump had a major effect on the summit. Earlier this year, Trump suggested the U.S. might abandon its commitments to the alliance if member countries don't meet their defence spending targets. The president generated more uncertainty Tuesday when he said his commitment to the mutual defence guarantee in the NATO treaty 'depends on your definition' of that guarantee. Pressed later by reporters, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said he has no doubt about the U.S. commitment to NATO and Article 5, the portion of the NATO treaty which says an armed attack on one member is an attack on all. Trump, who has long accused the alliance of not paying its fair share toward the cost of its defence, is also the key driver behind the plan to hike members' defence spending target. At a dinner event with NATO leaders Tuesday, Rutte thanked Trump for pushing for a spending hike and getting Europe to 'truly step up.' Kerry Buck, the former Canadian ambassador to NATO, told The Canadian Press that it's in the interests of Canada and European allies to keep the U.S. in NATO as 'deep and as long as possible.' 'Whatever we can do to get through this NATO summit with few public rifts between the U.S. and other allies on anything, and satisfy a very long-standing U.S. demand to rebalance defence spending, that will be good for Canada because NATO's good for Canada,' Buck said. Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany have all committed to the five per cent goal. NATO nations closer to the borders of Ukraine, Russia and its ally Belarus have also pledged to do so. But some are balking, including Spain and Slovakia. Rutte warned Monday that no country can opt out of the target and that progress made toward the new target will be reviewed in four years. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 25, 2025.
