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Taipei is undertaking a “food vendors long-term advancement project” in the hopes that more of its traditional markets would be awarded “five stars” by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taipei Mayor K ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 2021 Taipei Traditional Market Festival opened on Saturday (April 10) at the Yuanshan Plaza of Taipei Expo Park, featuring nearly 60 vendors from public markets across the c ... ( read original story ...)

WASHINGTON • The US State Department has issued new guidelines that will enable US officials to meet officials from Taiwan more freely, a move that deepens relations with Taipei amid stepped-up ... ( read original story ...)

The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island. ( read original story ...)

The State Department on Friday unveiled new rules for U.S. government contacts with Taiwan that are likely anger China but appear to reimpose some restrictions that had ... ( read original story ...)

The United States will still consider only Beijing as China's legitimate government, consistent with its switch of recognition in 1979, but will do away with some of the convoluted rules that ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's representative office in Washington welcomed a move "substantively reflecting deepening ties between Taiwan and the United States." It noted that it came at a time of increasing cooperation ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu (left) met with Palau president Surangel Whipps Jr and the US ambassador to Palau, John Hennessey-Niland, last month © RITCHIE B TONGO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Share on ... ( read original story ...)

The White House on Friday said it was keeping a close watch on increased Chinese military activities in the Taiwan Strait, and called Beijing's recent actions potentially destabilizing. ( read original story ...)

That’s partly because reading his volumes Les Fleurs du Mal or Le Spleen de Paris requires a degree of application, but also because the idea of an individual moving through the city streets and ... s ... ( read original story ...)

The threat comes amid a series of provocative actions and warnings in recent days by the Chinese military – the People's Liberation Army or PLA – including a series of air and naval incursions into ... ( read original story ...)

Kissinger’s Chinese counterpart, Zhou Enlai, had only one focus: Taiwan. The U.S. needed to recognize the government in Beijing, not Taipei, as the only legitimate China, and the United Nations needed ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's worst drought in 56 years has dried up one of its most iconic lakes - but this has resulted in good news for at least one man. The man surnamed Chen claims he dropped the mobile phone while ... ( read original story ...)

Allison Sherlock from Eurasia Group explains why she doesn't think Beijing is preparing for an imminent military attack on Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's worst drought in 56 years has dried up one of it's most iconic lakes - but this has resulted in good news for at least one man. The man surnamed Chen claims he dropped the mobile phone while ... ( read original story ...)

A growing chorus of officials and experts in the United States has been raising alarm about the risk of a Chinese attack against Taiwan. Adm. Philip S. Davidson, the United States Indo-Pacific ... ( read original story ...)