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HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) - Chip giant TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said on Friday the Taiwanese company remains rooted to the island as the world's largest contract chip maker ramps up expansion abroad. Wei made the comment at a ceremony to open a massive global research and development center in Taiwan's chip hub of Hsinchu.

Six years after the #MeToo movement rose to global prominence and toppled powerful perpetrators of sexual abuse, Taiwan is racing to reform laws and provide training and support as it reckons with its own wave of complaints.

Japan has stepped up its alarm over China’s assertiveness in the region, its growing military ties to Russia and its claims on Taiwan in a defense paper that is the first under Tokyo’s new security strategy calling for a major military buildup.

The United States is expected to announce as early as Friday that it will provide Taiwan with military assistance worth more than $300 million, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a move likely to anger China.

A bipartisan group of senators seeks to boost defense spending beyond the debt ceiling cap amid resistance from House Republicans.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government said on Thursday that China had released a Taiwanese citizen who had been detained on charges of spying, and that he had already left the country.

Taiwan is now reckoning with our long-delayed #MeToo movement, an experience that has shown us just how far women — even in the most progressive and woke places — still have to go to win and preserve their safety and autonomy.

The coastal Chinese city of Shantou on Thursday joined parts of Taiwan in shutting down schools and offices as Typhoon Doksuri brings heavy wind and rain to the Taiwan Strait and surrounding areas. Doksuri weakened further on Thursday,