Markets defy Taipei, Seoul intervention

Authorities are stepping up actions, including introducing curbs on short selling, readying market stabilization funds to buy assets and intervening in currency markets in moves reminiscent of the ... ( read original story ...)

Vilnius-Taipei ties exceed money: speaker

Relations between Lithuania and Taiwan are difficult to measure in money, Lithuanian Seimas Speaker Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen told media in her country. Lithuania’s export value to Taiwan in the first ... ( read original story ...)

Supreme Court upholds jail terms for ex-officers

Photo: Wu Cheng-feng, Taipei Times Former officer Lin Chang-ling (林長玲 ... Lin Chang-ling was found guilty of forced seizure of workers’ property in addition to demanding and taking bribes, and Tsai’s ... ( read original story ...)

Democracy group gathers in Taipei

The 11th Global Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy is to convene in Taipei tomorrow, with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) scheduled to attend the opening of the three-day event. About 300 ... ( read original story ...)

Will China Try to Take Taiwan in Xi’s Third Term?

Some analysts speculate that China will try to achieve unification by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. A U.S. Navy official, meanwhile, has warned that Xi ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan defies China with hope, Pride and parties

For the flourishing democracy of Taiwan, which China claims is simply a renegade province, the headlines could have sounded like harbingers of doom.Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, opened the Communist ... ( read original story ...)