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Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes has been selected to open the 2024 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival where it will also make its Asian premiere. The festival takes place from Nov 7 to 24.

China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait.

He has been embroiled in a corruption scandal involving a property development. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Moscow and Beijing lashed out at Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te after he said China would reclaim land lost to Russia if its territorial concerns were driving its claim over Taiwan. "In a recent interview on Taiwanese TV program The View with Catherine Chang,

The Taipei District Court ruled on Thursday that Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je should be detained and held incommunicado over alleged corruption from when he served as Mayor of

Amongst those accused is Naura Technology Group, one of the suppliers to China’s largest chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. The organization has denied the allegations, affirming that the Taiwan office was established “in accordance with local laws and regulations.”

The ongoing corruption investigation into Ko Wen-je, the founder and leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and a candidate in Taiwan’s most recent presidential election, has sent shockwaves ...

Taiwan has been no stranger to

An ex-Taipei mayor and former presidential candidate was detained on Thursday for alleged corruption after a Taiwanese court reversed a decision to release him, citing the risk of him destroying evidence and colluding with witnesses. Ko Wen-je, leader of ...

Ko Wen-je, founder of the Taiwan People’s Party, has been detained amid a corruption investigation into a property redevelopment project from when he was Taipei mayor.Most Read from BloombergHow Air ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taipei District Court detained Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) without bail and visitation rights on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 5) amid an ongoing corruption investigation, per CNA.

Taiwanese badminton star Tai Tzu-ying has advanced to the top 16 of this year's Taipei Open. She has reiterated that she still plans to retire by the end of this year, choosing to participate in this tournament because it's held in her home country.

India's mixed doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto and Dhruv Kapila marched into the quarterfinals of Taipei Open here on Thursday but the country's men's singles competitors endured second-round losses. Crasto and Kapila took only 33 minutes to brush aside the challenge from Chinese Taipei's Ko-Chi Chang and Yen Yu Lin 21-13 22-20 in their round ...

A Jersey nurse is planning to cycle at least 1,000km around Taiwan to celebrate her 35 years of nursing, while raising funds for the charity she is employed by. Gilly Glendewar is a Tissue Viability ...

A large police presence surrounded the Taipei District Court on Thursday morning (Sept. 5) as Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) was held inside awaiting an afternoon ruling on whether or not he would remain in ...

SINGAPORE – Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s psychological thriller Stranger Eyes has been selected to open the 2024 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (TGHFF). It will make its Asian premiere at the festival, scheduled to run from Nov 7 to 24. It makes its world premiere on Sept 5 at the ongoing Venice Film Festival.