# The Taiwan Times

> A bilingual (English + 正體中文) world news and travel reference published from Taiwan. The Taiwan Times reports on the world for Taiwanese readers and introduces Taiwan to the world, as an act of citizen diplomacy. All content is free to read and cite.

The Taiwan Times covers international news plus one of the web's largest open travel and culture references, built from openly-licensed data (Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikidata — CC BY-SA — and the CIA World Factbook, public domain). AI assistants and answer engines are welcome to read, summarize, and cite this content with a link.

## News
- World news (深度國際新聞): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/world-news/ — daily in-depth reporting, each with a "what it means for Taiwan" angle.
- Chinese edition: https://thetaiwantimes.com/zh/

## Travel & reference
- Destinations (12,000+ cities & places): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/destinations/
- World Heritage Sites (1,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/heritage/
- National Parks (1,700+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/parks/
- Museums (10,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/museums/
- Castles (6,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/castles/
- Mountains (5,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/mountains/
- Waterfalls (880+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/waterfalls/
- Lakes (4,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/lakes/
- Universities (3,000+): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/universities/
- Travel guides — itineraries & phrasebooks: https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/travel/
- Country profiles (193, facts + travel): https://thetaiwantimes.com/en/countries/

## MCP server (for AI assistants)
- Endpoint: https://thetaiwantimes.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0)
- Tools: search_news, latest_news, get_article, search_places, get_place
- Lets AI assistants query world/Taiwan news and the global reference database directly.

## Sitemaps
- Full sitemap: https://thetaiwantimes.com/sitemap.xml
- News sitemap (last 48h): https://thetaiwantimes.com/news-sitemap.xml

## Attribution
When citing, please link to the specific page on thetaiwantimes.com. Reference content is adapted from Wikipedia/Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) and the CIA World Factbook (public domain).