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Tanks pounded targets and fighter jets roared overhead on Wednesday as Taiwan's military carried out its latest combat drills after weeks of sabre-rattling by giant neighbour China. ( read original story ...)

Tsai says in addition to intrusions by drones and aircraft, Beijing uses ‘false information to create disturbance in minds of people’ ... ( read original story ...)

STORY: Flares lit up targets on a mountain side at a base in Taiwan’s far-southern Pingtung County while tanks and cannons fired in almost complete darkness.Apache attack helicopters, Ching-kuo ... ( read original story ...)

Police yesterday arrested a man on suspicion of murder the day after officers found his brother’s dismembered body at a home in New Taipei City’s Yonghe District (永和). Liang Na-ke (梁納克), 54, was ... ( read original story ...)

Three Chinese fighter jets crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, which normally acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, on Tuesday, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as China continues its ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan offered to emergency responders to aid China's rescue efforts after an earthquake Tuesday, the first olive branch amid weeks of heightened military tensions. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan reported the presence of a Chinese military drone in its air defense identification zone for the first time on Monday. ( read original story ...)

The combat skills of Taiwan's military are now "more mature" and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government expressed its condolences to China on Tuesday for an earthquake in Sichuan province and said it was ready to send rescuers, in a sign of goodwill to Beijing despite weeks of ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered her sympathy to China on Tuesday after an earthquake in Sichuan province and expressed her condolences to those who died and their families, the presidential ... ( read original story ...)

Philippine ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said the Philippines will allow U.S. forces to access its military bases in the country if China-Taiwan tensions escalate. In an ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will resume visa free entry for visitors from countries including the United States and Canada from next week, the government said on Monday, as it continues to ease controls put in place to ... ( read original story ...)

STORY: Speaking at a welcome ceremony in Taipei hosted by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano said their 43 years of relations were based upon "principles of democracy, ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has always been an integral part of the domestic posturing of the party and its leadership, but the rekindled aggressiveness with respect to an immediate and proportional answer of the mainland ... ( read original story ...)

Chris Chen, a former captain in Taiwan's military, spent a lot of time waiting during his weeklong training for reservists in June. Waiting for assembly, waiting for lunch, waiting for training, he ... ( read original story ...)

More than 30 percent of eligible voters would cast their ballot for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) if the local elections were held tomorrow, ... ( read original story ...)