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The United States is strongly condemning Taiwan’s exclusion from the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO).   WHA began its annual meeting Monday ... ( read original story ...)

Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) at a city council session yesterday apologized for taking three months off last year to campaign for January’s presidential election. Han said that he was now ... ( read original story ...)

Ambassador Lily Hsu told Newsweek that China does not want to work with the world to establish how the COVID-19 coronavirus spread worldwide. ( read original story ...)

Despite strong efforts Taiwan did not get invited to this week's meeting of a key World Health Organization (WHO) body due to Chinese pressure, its foreign minister said on Monday, adding they had ... ( read original story ...)

Its launch comes a week before the one-year anniversary of the day Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. ( read original story ...)

This is an expanded version of a piece we have published in the current issue of National Review.NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the middle of the 20th century, there was an expression: “He had a good war.” ... ( read original story ...)

More than 120 countries back call for inquiry into origins of virus while US-led coalition is lobbying for Taiwan to attend as an observer ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has fared better than many of its peers in containing Covid-19, having suffered just seven deaths and fewer than 500 infections, despite its close travel connections with China, where the virus ... ( read original story ...)

Political tensions across the Taiwan Strait have been reinforced during the coronavirus pandemic. The last thing that Taiwan should want to do is to provoke Beijing with direct and indirect actions to ... ( read original story ...)

Canada, the United States and six major allies have told the World Health Organization that its ongoing exclusion of Taiwan has created a serious public health concern during the COVID-19 crisis. ( read original story ...)

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the nation’s medical system must be bolstered to shoulder disease prevention duties ranging from border controls to aiding local communities, Minister of Health ... ( read original story ...)

Origin story aside, the personal protective equipment marked another small but meaningful moment in Taiwan’s recent ascent in the geopolitical consciousness. Those three words emblazoned on the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of legalising same-sex marriage, as gay couples and rights groups called for full recognition of unions involving foreigners. The island is at the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has been applauded internationally for quickly and effectively stemming the spread of the virus, and says it should have a platform to share its experiences with the world. But China - which ... ( read original story ...)

To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, landlords are reducing rents everywhere except in cultural and creative parks. In Taiwan, bookstores are a sunset industry and a hundred of them have closed, but ... ( read original story ...)

Cities across Asia and Australia were among the first to welcome the new year. Here's a look at celebrations in four places. ( read original story ...)