Government Information Office (GIO) Minister Su Jun-pin announced yesterday that his agency will launch an online newspaper titled Taiwan Today tomorrow to replace the 45-year-old Taiwan Journal and enhance the timeliness of the government’s information service. “In light of the fact that the Taiwan Journal was mostly in print copies, which limited its circulation and time validity, the launch of the new online daily news service, Taiwan Today, is aimed at providing up-to-the-minute information of developments in Taiwan to people abroad,” Su said.

“Taiwan Today will select important political, economic, social, cultural and lifestyle news from major Chinese-language newspapers every day to be translated into English, presenting the diversity of Taiwanese society through the Internet,” he added.