TAIPEI (Reuters) -Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses are on their way to Taiwan, the health minister said on Tuesday, as he extended virus-related restrictions until the middle of June even though the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Strategy To Hold Back A Chinese Invasion Doesn’t Instill Confidence
If forty years of improving ties culminate in threats to wipe out your negotiating partner’s political existence, you shudder to think how forty years of deteriorating ties across the Taiwan Strait ... ( read original story ...)
John Cena Apologizes to China After Calling Taiwan a Country
The professional wrestler called Taiwan a country while promoting his appearance in the new "Fast & Furious" movie during an interview in Mandarin earlier this month. ( read original story ...)
Fitch Affirms Taiwan’s IBF Group’s Ratings; Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has affirmed IBF Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.'s (IBF Holding) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB ... ( read original story ...)
Millions of COVID Vaccine Doses on the Way for Taiwan, Alert Level Extended
Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are on their way for Taiwan, the health minister said on Tuesday, as he extended virus-related restrictions until the middle of June even though the trend in new ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Tsai’s approval rating slips as Taiwan reports over 500 cases for fourth day
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has seen her approval rating drop below 50 per cent for the first time in a year as the island grapples with a worsening Covid-19 outbreak. Health authorities reported ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan hit by triple blow of drought, blackouts and COVID surge
The calm of a sunny May afternoon in Taiwan was broken by a crescendo of smartphones buzzing due to a national emergency alert. Electricity blackouts were coming due to a malfunction at a power plant ... ( read original story ...)
Microsoft to open Taiwan datacenter by early 2022
Microsoft is poised to open its datacenter in Taiwan at the end of this year or early 2022, according to industry sources. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s “Pineapple War”: Opportunity Amid an Industry Crisis
China’s recent ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan provides an occasion for policymakers to rethink the island’s dependence on the Chinese market for ... ( read original story ...)
China offers to send Covid vaccines to Taiwan, draws angry response from Taipei
China on Monday offered to urgently send Covid vaccines to Taiwan to help it fight a spike in coronavirus infections, drawing an angry response from Taipei. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan criticizes WHO ‘indifference’ after failing to gain access to annual meeting
Taiwan has criticized what it called World Health Organization (WHO) "indifference" to the health rights of Taiwan people and for capitulating to China after the island failed to get invited to a ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s Sudden Unraveling Masks a Serious Climate Problem
Taiwan is being squeezed by a resurgent coronavirus on one side and a yearlong drought that is disrupting agriculture, industry and power supplies on the other. Only one of those forces is likely to ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan denied access to WHA observer role
The 74th World Health Assembly, or WHA, approved on Monday a recommendation by its general committee not to include the proposal by a few countries for China's Taiwan to be an observer in the WHA ... ( read original story ...)
China has crushed opposition in Hong Kong, Taiwan fears it is next
In the face of an increasingly hostile China, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu joined Network's Power & Politics Monday to call on fellow democracies to voice more support for Taiwan. "We cannot ... ( read original story ...)
Global chips supply is in danger unless Taiwan gets vaccines
Back in February, as the world was beating a path to Taiwan’s door for help to tackle a shortage of semiconductors, the health minister got into a scrap with China over Covid-19 vaccines. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s COVID-19 crisis could make global semiconductor shortage even worse
Taiwan is paying the price for a lack of vaccines, with a surge in virus cases that threatens to trigger a lockdown that could disrupt the chip industry that is critical to an already-squeezed global ... ( read original story ...)