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Authorities in Taipei have located 27 foreign women allegedly working as hostesses in Wanhua District (萬華) and arranged for them to be tested for COVID-19, police said yesterday. The women are ... ( read original story ...)

The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. Meanwhile, vaccinations have already started in some countries as cases continue to rise. Follow here for the latest. ( read original story ...)

Island's entire population of 24 million put under tighter restrictions as infections rise, and just 1% are vaccinated. ( read original story ...)

A number of events and trends are coming together now to drive Taiwan and with it the whole Asia-Pacific region, to the edge of disaster. These include the recent election for Taiwan’s leadership, the ... ( read original story ...)

It’s easy to be in favor of U.S.troops defending the island if you don’t address the arguments on the other side. ( read original story ...)

The whole of Taiwan will move into level 3 of its four-tier coronavirus alert system, after cases spread to more than half the island’s counties, infecting more than 1,300 people and killing two. ( read original story ...)

Chinese nationalism on the internet has a new target: The popular Thai drama “Girl from Nowhere" distributed by Netflix. Comments online Wednesday complained the series' Facebook page showed the flags ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government has called for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines during a meeting with senior Western diplomats, as it faces a dwindling supply of shots during a spike in domestic infections. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will step up water usage curbs from June 1 for the major chip making hub of Hsinchu in a battle on islandwide drought, should there be no significant rain by month-end, the government said on ... ( read original story ...)

China accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait after a U.S. warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from its ... ( read original story ...)

All the virus had to do was get through the border.Until this week, Taiwan’s Covid-19 containment appeared to be so effective that virtually no other defenses were put in place: few tests, no local ... ( read original story ...)

Iveda Solutions Inc. announced that the company signed a new contract for $1.5 million (NTD 42 million) with Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is an ... ( read original story ...)

Now, Taiwan faces its worst outbreak of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 new local infections in 10 days. Residents, suddenly eager to be vaccinated, are being turned away as authorities ration a ... ( read original story ...)

New variants of COVID-19 are spreading across Asia, reversing the success of governments such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. Japan's new outbreak is amplifying calls to cancel the Summer ... ( read original story ...)

In doing so, the world’s largest contract chipmaker is carefully balancing the demands on that capacity from the geopolitical rivals that are driving its growth: the US and China.  The glaring example ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is mobilising its diplomatic corps to hunt for speedier delivery of COVID-19 vaccines - a quest that has become more urgent since a sudden rise in domestic cases on an island that has ... ( read original story ...)