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Fresh off a historic sixth-place finish in the women's shot put competition at the IAAF world track and field championships, Brittany Crew says she was feeling a little jet lagged just a couple of days after arriving in Taipei City, Taiwan for the 2017 ... ( read original story ...)

This rsidential project deigned by Van der Vein, covers ana rea of 131 sqm and is located in Taichung city, Taiwan. The abode is an eclectic extravaganza of natural marble paneling. Without too sumptuous measures, the space accentuates the innate elegance ... ( read original story ...)

As the United States wrestles with the problem of what to do with monuments to a divisive history, Taiwan has found a solution -- a park dedicated to unwanted statues of a controversial figure from its past. More than 200 memorials to Chiang Kai-shek, the ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Canada’s open water swimmers won’t compete at the Summer Universiade because of unusually hot water temperatures. The open water marathon race was scheduled for early Sunday morning, but Swimming Canada said a temperature measurement ... ( read original story ...)

Involved city government officials and Farglory employees are ... For its part, Farglory has cited that halting construction on the Taipei Dome would lead to the project growing increasingly expensive, with need to remove rust which had accumulated on ... ( read original story ...)

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (AP) -- An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan's National Space Organization was launched into orbit from California on Thursday. The Formosat-5 satellite lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:51 a.m ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Halifax’s Ellie Black won her first gold medal at a World University Games, in 2013. Black is no stranger to earning medals: She took home one of each colour from the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships and the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s second largest city is reinventing itself from an industrial port to ... taken in by the temple's abbot when the construction project that hired them went awry, leaving them stranded in Taiwan. To thank the monks, the men fashioned this ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — One attended the University of Pennsylvania, the other Harvard. Both have fenced for their Ivy League schools’ teams, even facing off against each other to break ties in decisive matches. But this time, brothers Jason and Jerry Chang ... ( read original story ...)

This beautiful contemporary apartment situated in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, was designed in 2017 by Vattier Interior ... The post sebast ... the project suggests that if dwellings could be disguised as air conditioning infrastructure, thousands of pop-up ... ( read original story ...)

If shares of Taiwan’s largest airline are anything to go by, Apple Inc.’s next iPhone will be a runaway success. China Airlines Ltd. has surged more than 30 percent in the past 8 days, adding about $4.1 billion in market value and outperforming almost ... ( read original story ...)

Aug 23 (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings said on a conference call on Wednesday that: * It sees Taiwan's life insurers facing higher currency hedging risk this year amid stronger Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar. * It sees hedging risk facing the sector ... ( read original story ...)

Incumbent says he won’t seek new term after 20 years in job As Taiwan searches for a new central bank governor for the first time in two decades, economists see the government choosing more of the same. Deputy central bank governor Yang Chin-long is the ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China warned the United States on Tuesday against any military contacts with Taiwan ahead of brief visits by the self-ruled island's defense minister to the United States on his way to and from Central American allies. The United ... ( read original story ...)

To some, he is a hero despite losing a civil war. To others, he is a symbol of oppression. Some of the statues built in his honor have since been removed, but others remain because the cause he represented still has support. Chiang, then the president of ... ( read original story ...)

FILE PHOTO - The logo of Foxconn on top of the company's headquarters in New Taipei City Taiwan Thomson Reuters TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn on Monday said it plans to build three facilities in the U.S. state of Wisconsin ... ( read original story ...)