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Octogenarian laundry owners amass nearly 600,000 followers with attitude-filled fashion portraits ... ( read original story ...)

Pacita Abad is the Filipino artist who was honored with a Google Doodle on July 31. Abad was born in Basco, Batanes, an island in the South China Sea in 1946. The island is located between Luzon and ... ( read original story ...)

The neglected basement of this Taipei apartment has been overhauled by KC Design Studio to feature a series of greyscale rooms and an indoor courtyard. ( read original story ...)

The Taiwanese government on Friday said it will hold a state funeral for former President Lee Teng-hui, a figure respected on the island for ending autocratic rule but branded by mainland Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

Its first popularly elected president, he transformed a police state into a vibrant country while angering Beijing by insisting that Taiwan be treated as a sovereign state. ( read original story ...)

Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, dubbed “Mr. Democracy” for burying autocratic rule in favour of freewheeling pluralism, died at the age of 97, the official Central ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, July 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan's ruling party on Thursday urged the China and Hong governments to stop the "oppression" of people in the city following the disqualification of election ... ( read original story ...)

Australia granted “major project status” to an ambitious A$22 billion (US$15.8 billion) plan to export power from a giant solar farm in the country’s north to Southeast Asia via undersea cable. The ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan contest is adding fuel to volatile local affairs in places like the Solomon Islands, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

A Taipei hospital has dismissed rumors claiming that former Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui has died after he choked while drinking milk in February, saying he is still under treatment. Rumors of Lee's ... ( read original story ...)

Ever since Mao Zedong triumphed in 1949, prompting his Nationalist enemies to flee to Taiwan, Communist Party leaders have bolstered their legitimacy to rule by taming rebellious corners of China’s ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan on Tuesday was investigating its first possible local coronavirus infection in more than a month, a Thai man who tested positive last week, as the island also faces a rise in cases brought from ... ( read original story ...)

Kuala Lumpur, July 29 (IANS) The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has cancelled four tournaments, including Taipei Open 2020 and Korea Open, due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ( read original story ...)

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said that it would not ease border restrictions in the short term, as the COVID-19 pandemic is still in a dangerous situation globally, reiterating ... ( read original story ...)

The destruction of critically important wetlands by politically connected developers in Cambodia threatens to flood more than 1 million Phnom Penh residents, ruin the city’s wastewater system, force ... ( read original story ...)