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Now it’s about to get a lot more. The island country, just 100 miles from its most powerful enemy, is turning into heavily-armed fortress. Or to borrow the Taiwanese government’s own metaphor, an ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is taking two big steps to strengthen the island’s presence in the South China Sea. The first is to commission its first 4,000-tonne coastguard offshore patrol vessel. The second step is to ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan said on Tuesday that planned "stimulus coupons" for its coronavirus-hit economy could boost consumer spending by T$100 billion ($3.3 billion) this year. ( read original story ...)

If Hong Kong falls, we don’t know what’s going to be next — it might be Taiwan,” Joseph Wu, the country’s foreign minister, said in an interview with Fox News last week, referring to the new security ... ( read original story ...)

Today, a video that surfaced on Twitter shows a Tesla Model 3 driving, without waiver or interruption, directly into a flipped-over truck on the highway. The clip, which occurred in Taiwan, has some ... ( read original story ...)

The artist known as Christo, who made his name transforming landmarks, such as Germany’s Reichstag, by covering them with reams of cloth, died on Sunday, aged 84, his official Facebook page announced. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan beat the virus with efficient government and advanced technology—the same ingredients that power the economy. ( read original story ...)

The 4,000-tonne vessel could be launched on Tuesday, while the island is to begin production of advanced training jets amid growing hostility from Beijing. ( read original story ...)

Daily life in Taiwan looks different as precautions are taken against the coronavirus, but the country just 100 miles from China is one of a few that never took lockdown measures, but avoided a major ... ( read original story ...)

The Kuomintang (KMT) soundly lost the presidential and parliamentary polls. Since then, under a youthful new leader, Johnny Chiang, it has tried to rethink its unpopular policy of seeking closer ties ... ( read original story ...)

China reiterated on Friday that it is prepared to use all means necessary - including force - to prevent the self-ruled island of Taiwan from becoming independent. Speaking at Beijing's Great Hall of ... ( read original story ...)

With communist authorities in China openly and gleefully shredding the post-World War II liberal order, it may be time for the United States and Taiwan to show Beijing the dangers of doing so by ... ( read original story ...)

For nearly a decade, the UN Security Council has been frequently paralyzed by Russia’s obstinacy over the Syrian crisis. Today, however, it is the US-China rivalry that has infected a growing array of ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government said on Saturday it had approved Gilead Sciences' potential COVID-19 treatment, remdesivir, to treat the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. ( read original story ...)

Despite its progressive reputation, Taiwan was the last place in East Asia where "adulterous" couples faced jail. ( read original story ...)

China will attack Taiwan and “smash separatists” if all else fails in efforts towards reunification, a Chinese general has warned.Li Zuocheng, chief of the joint staff department and a member of the ... ( read original story ...)