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Taiwan's transportation minister Lin Chia-lung has offered to resign after a deadly train crash Friday killed at least 51 people and left scores more injured according to the country's state run ... ( read original story ...)

Maintenance worker issues tearful apology as investigations continue into what caused vehicle to slide down embankment A maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in ... ( read original story ...)

And Taiwan knows China best, which is why cooperation with Taipei makes strategic sense for New Delhi. Plus, with the troop disengagement process in eastern Ladakh stalled, Beijing clearly doesn ... ( read original story ...)

A construction site manager whose lorry slid on to a railway track and led to Taiwan's worst train disaster in decades has expressed "deep regret". Lee Yi-hsiang, 49, said he was "deeply remorseful" ... ( read original story ...)

A construction site manager whose lorry slid on to a railway track and led to Taiwan's worst train disaster in decades has expressed "deep regret". Lee Yi-hsiang, 49, said he was "deeply remorseful" ... ( read original story ...)

By Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien and Joy Dong HUALIEN, Taiwan — Two days after Taiwan’s deadliest rail disaster in decades, investigators were working on Sunday to determine why a truck had slipped ... ( read original story ...)

The owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan's worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sunday said Taiwan’s peace and stability is key to the region and that Japan will cooperate with the United States to calm rising tensions ... ( read original story ...)

Rescue and recovery efforts continued Sunday after Taiwan's worst rail accident in over seven decades. More than fifty people were killed after a train carying more than 500 passengers collided with a ... ( read original story ...)

HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan's transport minister said on Sunday he would not shirk his responsibility for a deadly train crash even as his resignation offer was rejected amid growing questions ... ( read original story ...)

A man held his 5-year-old daughter in his arms in the minutes before she died. By Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien and Joy Dong HUALIEN, Taiwan — Crawling through the smoky wreckage, she first found her ... ( read original story ...)

new video loaded: Mourners Gather at Site of Taiwan Train Crash transcript [singing] [crying] Relatives of the 51 people killed on Friday in a train derailment in Hualien, Taiwan, came together on ... ( read original story ...)

At about 6pm on Friday last week, police officers on patrol in New Taipei City’s Rueifang District (瑞芳) noticed that a vehicle had been parked for a long time in front of a restaurant that serves ... ( read original story ...)

Police suspect rail accident that killed at least 50 was caused by ‘improperly parked’ truck ... ( read original story ...)

Officials investigating a train crash in Taiwan that killed at least 50 people are focusing on a maintenance lorry that slid onto the track. The train hit the lorry then crashed inside a tunnel on ... ( read original story ...)

European countries are providing help for Taiwan’s indigenous submarine project, the island’s defence ministry said, in a rare admission that the sensitive programme is not getting assistance solely ... ( read original story ...)