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Taiwan is set to recall 285 passports that mistakenly feature Washington's Dulles International Airport instead of Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport. The error was pointed out by social media users after the new version of the biometric passport went ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will gradually get used to Chinese air force drills that encircle the island, China said on Wednesday, while Taiwan's premier reiterated the self-ruled island's desire for peaceful relations with its giant neighbor. ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's air force has carried out 16 rounds of exercises close to Taiwan in the last year or so, Taiwan's defense ministry said on Tuesday, warning that China's military threat was growing by the day. China considers self-ruled and ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is proof that a country can make a swift and huge change to its health care system, even in the modern day. The United States, in part because of political stalemate, in part because it has been hemmed in by its history, has been unable to be as bold. ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - China’s air force has carried out 16 rounds of exercises close to Taiwan in the last year or so, Taiwan’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, warning that China’s military threat was growing by the day. China considers self-ruled and ... ( read original story ...)

Li Chen-yu, director of the Taipei Smart City Project Management Office under the city government’s Department of Information Technology, says the ultimate objective is to put driverless buses into service during off-peak hours, especially in the middle ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) pledged Sunday that his administration will make combating drug abuse among junior high school students its No. 1 priority next year. Speaking during an address at an anti-drug fair in the city, Ko ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s growing economic, political and diplomatic power means it is achieving an “overwhelming advantage” in bringing self-ruled Taiwan to heel, and time is on China’s side, a senior official said in a comments published on Monday. ( read original story ...)

Beijing venerates Mao Zedong; Taiwan is trying to forget its former leader. Cindy Sui - born under Mao but now living in Taiwan - on why they're getting such different treatment. Photo: Statues of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek at a park in Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

Taipei, Dec. 22 (CNA) Taipei is rolling out a new ban at the beginning of next year that forbids the sale of plastic shopping bags at hypermarkets, supermarkets, and convenience stores. Lu Shih-chang (盧世昌), the deputy commissioner of Taipei's ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is investigating four members of a small political party that advocates unification with China, on the suspicion that they gave Chinese officials classified information related to an espionage case. Beijing said it was watching ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) The Taipei metro will run for 42 hours non-stop from Dec. 31 to provide transport for the huge crowds expected to attend the city's New Year's Eve countdown party and fireworks display, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp. (TRTC) said Thursday. ( read original story ...)

* TAIWAN CENTRAL BANK SEES CURRENT INFLATIONARY PRESSURES AND FUTURE OUTLOOK AS VERY STABLE - C.BANK GOVERNOR Source text for Eikon: bit.ly/2BUYb2A (Reporting by Jess Macy Yu and Liang-sa Loh) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Beijing court on Thursday handed down jail sentences of up to 15 years to 50 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 22 from self-ruled Taiwan. Taiwan’s government criticized the case, saying China had ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is investigating four members of a small political party that advocates unification with China, on the suspicion that they gave Chinese officials classified information related to an espionage case. Beijing said it was watching ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has condemned a Taiwan government probe into a tiny but passionately pro-China opposition party, the latest flashpoint between Beijing and a self-ruled island it considers its own. Taiwanese investigators searched the homes ... ( read original story ...)