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Both Super 100 tournaments have now been removed from the BWF's revamped calendar. However, badminton's World Tour is due to restart with the Taipei Open during the first week of September, followed ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking at the Taipei Water Park this spring, Mayor Ko Wen-je urged audience members to "think about where water comes from when they drink it." Ko's comment came at the premiere of "Tracing Roots," ... ( read original story ...)

The imposition of a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong has sent chills through Taiwan, deepening fears that Beijing will focus next on seizing the democratic self-ruled island. China and ... ( read original story ...)

Somaliland, a self-declared independent region of Somalia in east Africa, has formally recognized Taiwan, another government that lacks United Nations recognition.  The establishment of ties between ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan recorded net foreign fund inflow of US$4.135 billion last month, ending four consecutive months of outflows, Financial Supervisory Commission data showed yesterday. The net inflow came as ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan opened a government office this month to help Hong Kong citizens apply for residency as China passed a security law that worries people in the former British colony who have protested over the ... ( read original story ...)

A newly restored building constructed in Taipei over a century ago to house the railway headquarters of the Japanese colonial government will be opened to ... ( read original story ...)

Giant panda Yuan Zai enjoys its special birthday cake at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 6, 2020. Yuan Zai, the female cub of giant panda Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan as goodwill ... ( read original story ...)

Burton died in 1899, leaving his student, Yashiro Hamano, to complete the project, which eventually ... pipeline leading to the city below. When the Japanese left in 1945, 20 per cent of Taipei ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan would welcome a visit by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, its foreign ministry said on Monday, a trip that would infuriate Beijing which views him as a dangerous separatist. The ... ( read original story ...)

Intense pressure from China has reduced self-governing, democratic Taiwan to having just 15 diplomatic allies and being excluded from the United Nations and most other international organizations ... ( read original story ...)

Hand it to CCP strongman Xi Jinping: he is a uniter. His bluster and saber-rattling may well unite Taiwanese behind the cause of independence. Beijing could respond quite aggressively. What would ... ( read original story ...)

With the loss of Hong Kong to China, Trump should visit Taiwan to show that the U.S. is serious about advancing its interests and values in the region. ( read original story ...)

Shan Airport offers a fake travel experience. Customers get a fake itinerary, boarding passes, and they even go through security and immigration before getting on an actual plane. About 7,000 people ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 was reported near Taipei, Taiwan on Friday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology. ( read original story ...)

The Taipei Zoo this week announced that it had for the first time bred poison dart frogs that arrived in Taiwan last year, although it warned that a sharp eye is needed to see the young frogs. The ... ( read original story ...)