Former Taipei mayor and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je has been charged with accepting bribes in connection with real estate dealings during his time in office. Taiwan's Presidential Office has carried out tabletop exercises to practice a nationwide civil defense response to an invasion by China. And how the Taiex, Taiwan's main stock index came to outperform all other major Asian markets in 2024. Plus:
●Twenty years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, survivors in Thailand describe what they lost in the disaster and what they have found in the two decades since.
●New Taipei residents oppose plans to demolish a centuries-old home next to a historic canal system.
- Russia launched a massive aerial attack into Ukraine on Christmas Day, targeting the country's energy infrastructure with the war now in its third winter.
