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Along central Taipei’s busy Yongkang Street crowds spill out of restaurants and bars every evening, mingling with people queueing outside popular eateries for a tiny table to cram around with groups ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan stepped up its fight against its worst drought in decades, further reducing water supplies to areas including a key hub of semiconductor manufacturing in the central part of the island in an ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will from next month ration water for more than one million people in the centre of the island because of a drought but the technology hub of Hsinchu will not be affected, Economy Minister Wang ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will help its handful of remaining diplomatic allies buy COVID-19 vaccines but on the condition that Taiwanese money is not used to obtain Chinese vaccines, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on ... ( read original story ...)

A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit and forced restaurants to come up with inventive new menu choices but it has also left many ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) fell on Wednesday after Intel Corp announced a $20 billion plan to expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity, even as Taiwan's economy ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan Power Co. ( Taipower) has appointed DNV as owner’s engineer for the 300-MW Changhua II offshore wind farm. The contract is valued at $17.7 million (NOK 150 million). The work scope lasting into ... ( read original story ...)

China considers recovering control of Taiwan its ‘No 1 priority’, says Adm John Aquilino who is nominated to head Indo-Pacific Command ... ( read original story ...)

The government has allocated NT$608 billion (US$21.35 billion) to spend on public infrastructure this year, in a bid to stimulate the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Development ... ( read original story ...)

Actor and producer Welly Yang of Studio City watched with dismay as life in California came to a sudden stop while millions of people in his ancestors’ homeland — Taiwan — went to work in offices, ... ( read original story ...)

AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the Vaccine Village in Antwerp, Belgium. At least a dozen countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have now temporarily suspended ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has grounded all military airplanes for training and drills after a pilot was killed and another is still missing following a mid-air collision of two fighter jets, renewing worries about the ... ( read original story ...)

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently. Kerry Ellis to Take the Stage in Taipei's Cats Broadway.com Audience Choice Award ... ( read original story ...)

These plants will provide ultra-high purity hydrogen to the semiconductor industry as well as serve emerging hydrogen energy applications in Taiwan. This project is in line with the Group’s Climate ... ( read original story ...)

While most of the world has had to adjust to physical distancing and mask-wearing for the last year, Taiwan has been a rare exception, thanks to its quick and efficient response to the COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)

One pilot is dead and a second pilot remains missing after two Taiwanese F-5E fighter jets collided other during a training mission. ( read original story ...)