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Japan will make additional donations of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan and other Asian neighbors this week, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday.  Japan will ship 1 million ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will ship out 1 million doses each to Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam on Thursday as part of bilateral deals with those governments, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said. ( read original story ...)

Japan believes rising tension surrounding Taiwan requires its attention “with a sense of crisis” as China intensifies military activities in the area and the United States steps up support for the ... ( read original story ...)

Growing military tensions around Taiwan as well as economic and technological rivalry between China and the United States threaten peace and stability in East Asia as the regional power balance shifts ... ( read original story ...)

BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million COVID-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei's top diplomat in Berlin said on Tuesday, detailing how the ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei is hosting the 29th Summer Universiade beginning on Aug. 19 but the organizing federation appears to not be sure what to call the island where the event is being held. The International ... ( read original story ...)

China, Chinese Taipei and Japan shared the 7 table tennis gold medals on offer at the 27th Universiade, which saw 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries descend onto the Russian city of Kazan. ( read original story ...)

The founder of one of the companies said the vaccine donation "will give the people of Taiwan some breathing room and more confidence in facing the pandemic." ... ( read original story ...)

For months Taiwan had struggled to buy millions of Covid-19 vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech SE, in part because President’s Tsai Ing-wen’s administration sought to go around a Chinese company that ... ( read original story ...)

For many years, Taiwanese defense planners assumed that, if and when China invades the island democracy, the main Chinese force would sail across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait and assault the beaches of ... ( read original story ...)

The convoluted deal involves three different companies and a charity, reflecting the political tensions between Taiwan and China. ( read original story ...)

COVID-19 vaccine via two major Taiwanese companies reached a head last week, the German firm's Chinese sales agent put forward a template contract seeking access to Taiwanese medical records. ( read original story ...)

Beijing had offered Taiwan the vaccines, amid a major shortage on the island, but Taiwan’s ruling party did not want to deal with China directly ... ( read original story ...)

Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company agreed on Monday to purchase 10 million doses of Germany's BioNTech vaccine to donate them to Taiwanese health authorities ... ( read original story ...)

With support from the Bureau of Energy under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and the British Office in Taipei, Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI) and the UK's Offshore Renewable ... ( read original story ...)

Despite a global chip shortage, Chris Lin of Taiwan-based Aspeed Technology is finding ways to keep moving forward with growth at his tech firm. ( read original story ...)