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Taiwan has denied prominent Hong Kong film producer and entertainment mogul Charles Heung Wah-keung and his son visas to live there, citing national security concerns. Heung is known for founding ... ( read original story ...)

The film “Taipei Suicide Story,” a drama about a “suicide hotel” in Taiwan, has won the top prize from the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. The film, written and directed by KEFF, won the Narrative Grand ... ( read original story ...)

Washington reacted forcefully and nearly with war over nearby missiles in Cuba. What makes anyone think Beijing would not do similar over missiles in Taiwan? In 1962, the United States and the Soviet ... ( read original story ...)

The drama is about a receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei who forms a friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die. The pic, which was ... ( read original story ...)

Around $800,000 will be used to create a program on “Taiwan in the World” and $1.2 million is earmarked to “establish a Taiwan Studies Endowment Fund”. “The Taiwan in the World program will cover ... ( read original story ...)

The Arleigh Burke -class destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur transited the Taiwan Strait this week, the Navy announced. The Wilbur, which transited the strait on Wednesday, is the second U.S. vessel to do so ... ( read original story ...)

China has approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for wider use, adding to its growing arsenal of shots.It gave conditional approval to a ... ( read original story ...)

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order calling for a 100-day review to increase domestic production of chips in the long term. And in a letter sent last weekend, his economics adviser ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has refused to grant residency to a famous Hong Kong entertainment tycoon -- whose family are vocally pro-Beijing -- on "national security" grounds, the government and media said Thursday. ( read original story ...)

The World Health Organization’s Europe unit is reporting that about one in 10 people who contracted COVID-19 continue to show “persistent ill health” 12 weeks after infection. ( read original story ...)

The U.S.S. Curtis Wilbur made the Navy's second Taiwan Strait transit under Biden on Wednesday, in a move showing Washington's "commitment to secure Taiwan against China's armed aggression," an ... ( read original story ...)

China’s increasing naval power, the country having surpassed the United States as the world’s largest maritime force, is giving Beijing crucial sway in negotiations with Asian governments that dispute ... ( read original story ...)

Malaysian singer Lin Min-chen (林明禎) received praise on Wednesday after inadvertently showing off her beautiful headshot featured on her Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI, 健保署) card. ( read original story ...)

A Taiwan influencer went viral online on Wednesday after she accidentally fell asleep with her camera on, earning around NT$2,000 in just one night. ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan will begin slightly easing restrictions on foreign visitors coming to the island beginning Monday. The Central Epidemic Command Center says foreign nationals wishing to come to ... ( read original story ...)

Wave of migration comes amid worsening crackdown on freedoms following the introduction of Beijing’s national security law ... ( read original story ...)