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April 7 (UPI) --China's military conducted air and sea exercises near Taiwan amid Beijing's continued opposition to closer ties between Washington and Taipei. Beijing's forces deployed the aircraft ... ( read original story ...)

Newly released video footage from the front of a train shows the dramatic moments when it crashed in Taiwan last week and killed dozens of people. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has accused Beijing of offering Chinese-made Covid vaccines to pressure Paraguay to sever ties with the island. Foreign Minister Joseph Wu claimed China had promised millions of doses for ... ( read original story ...)

The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for retaking Taiwan, the island democracy that's widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Cabin exposed, with half of its walls and roof gone, workers pulled out the last remaining train car in Taiwan’s worst rail accident in seven decades. The crash site on the ... ( read original story ...)

Taoyuan is adjacent to the Greater Taipei area, the political and economic ... the complementary advancement of the airport and the city to push forward Taiwan’s economic development. Since the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said China was 'flexing its muscles' with its vaccine diplomacy. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

Computer simulations of a Chinese attack on Taiwan will be conducted between April 23 to 30, and will form the first phase of Taiwan's largest annual war games. ( read original story ...)

China's armed forces conducted simultaneous military exercises to the west and east of Taiwan on Monday in a move analysts said was a warning to the self-ruled island and its supporter, the United ... ( read original story ...)

Train hit vehicle at more than 120km/h, about a minute after the truck rolled onto the tracks, crash experts say Last modified on Wed 7 Apr 2021 01.19 EDT The runaway truck that caused Taiwan’s worst ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s foreign minister said Wednesday that China’s attempts at conciliation and military intimidation are sending “mixed signals” to people on the island China claims ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan will fight to the end if China attacks, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that the United States saw a danger that this could happen amid mounting Chinese military pressure, ... ( read original story ...)

If China ever makes good on decades of threats and posturing and attacks Taiwan, Chinese hackers, rocketeers and bomber crews likely would fire the first shots, initiating a potentially devastating ... ( read original story ...)

Ma Chen-kun, a China military affairs analyst based in Taipei, likened the region to the Balkans before the outbreak of the First World War. ( read original story ...)

In March, Chinese President Xi Jinping threatened Taiwan with the "punishment of history" for its resistance against absorption by the Chinese Communist Party, which for decades has eyed the island ... ( read original story ...)

April 6 (UPI) --Taiwan has started to cut water supply to its central region for two days a week as an ongoing drought threatens chipmakers amid a global semiconductor shortage. The Taiwanese ... ( read original story ...)