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The Terry Fox Run, a charity event to raise funds for cancer research, is scheduled for Saturday at Breeze Park (微風運河) in New Taipei City’s Lujhou District (蘆洲). Known as “Run for Courage 2024” this ...

project is to be completed in four stages, it said. In the first stage, the hall leading to the Blue Line near the art exhibition area is to be closed from Nov. 1 to the end Prosecutors yesterday ...

In playgrounds across Taiwan, a jumbo surprise awaits children in the form of colorful elephant slides, evoking nostalgia for older Taiwanese, who say the structures used to be ubiquitous across the ...

Sanbanqiao Cemetery (三板橋) was once reserved for prominent Japanese residents of Taipei, including former governor-general Motojiro Akashi, who died in Japan in 1919 but requested to be buried in ...

The 59th annual Golden Bell Awards Ceremony was held in Taipei at the Taipei Music Center on Saturday (Oct. 19), hosted by Jack Yao (姚淳耀). Stars began arriving on the red carpet outside the venue at 5 ...

The role of the elite unit may be limited but not inconsequential. "You don't use a scalpel for a job a hammer can do," a former SEAL said.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Ministry of Examination is collecting opinions about a move to scrap height requirements and a ban on tattoos for police officers, reports said Saturday (Oct. 19). The Constitutional Court ruled in May that setting height ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would impose additional tariffs on China if China were to "go into Taiwan," the Wall Street Journal reported.

Authorities in Taiwan are under pressure to scrap a two-decade-old provision that allows high school students to be enlisted into wartime non-combat service. Under the island’s All-Out Defence Mobilisation Readiness Act of 2001, minors can be mobilised for the non-combat youth service corps during conflicts and natural disasters.

The group’s mandate is to foster economic development with diplomatic allies, forge new ties with friendly governments and align Taiwan’s international outreach with key policies in President William ...

The 344-unit apartment complex is planned across Interstate 17 from where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is developing its campus.

An underage driver crashed into a snack bar in northeast Taipei's Neihu District, killing three people and injuring two. Police say he did not have drugs or alcohol in his system.

South Africa's government said on Friday that it had asked Taiwan to relocate its de facto embassy out of the capital Pretoria, while Taiwan accused it of bowing to pressure from China.

"This will help prevent systemic collapse of the core communication network in potential future conflicts,” said the CEO of Tron Future.

Xinhua, the official news service, noted that instead of referring to China as the “the mainland”, which would suggest that China and Taiwan are one country, he referred to it as “China”, as if they were separate.

South Africa has told Taiwan to move its de facto embassy out of its administrative capital at the urging of China, according to a Foreign Ministry official in Taipei — highlighting Beijing’s expanding sway among developing nations.