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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's China-friendly former President Ma Ying-jeou was found innocent Tuesday of libel and leaking confidential information in a case involving suspected influence peddling by a powerful lawmaker. The Taipei District Court found Ma ... ( read original story ...)

Filmmaker Huang Hui-chen felt bound by labels while growing up in Taiwan -- impoverished, a school dropout and daughter of a lesbian Taoist priestess who she yearned to understand. Her award-winning directorial debut "Small Talk" is the culmination of two ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is pursuing a two-pronged upgrade to its armed forces as people on the island worry about recent shows of force by powerful rival China during a political stalemate. Last week, the Taiwanese navy signed a memorandum of understanding with two local ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen. Source: AP. CHINA’S failure to respond on the matter of a Taiwan man missing on the mainland is causing his family “anxiety and panic”, Taiwan’s ruling party said on Saturday, as it called on authorities to protect ... ( read original story ...)

Let’s assume, hypothetically, that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) successfully conquers Taiwan. Most analyses of an attempted invasion consider only if the PRC could successfully subdue Taiwan. The consequences of an attempted invasion –even a ... ( read original story ...)

Wang Hao thrived during her semester as an exchange student in Taiwan. As a native of mainland China, she found it exotic to hang out with Taiwanese students, sitting under a thicket of banyan trees and listening to local bands. Now a fourth-year ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s independence-leaning government under President Tsai Ing-wen has tried to open “back door” communications channels with Beijing since formal ties were severed last year, but the efforts have proved fruitless, according to a former premier of ... ( read original story ...)

The source of the cash crunch for that project: money that was to have come ... Another “Tram-Train” Line Announced for Taipei Region The China Post reports that the northern port city of Keelung, Taiwan, located about 13 miles northeast of the capital ... ( read original story ...)

The case has been brought by a gay activist as well as municipal authorities from the capital, Taipei. Taiwan's parliament has also been debating whether to pass laws that would allow same-sex marriage. The movement has split society and prompted a ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's constitutional court heard a landmark case Friday that could make the island the first place in Asia to allow same-sex marriage. A panel of 14 grand justices heard a debate over a disputed law that critics say is unconstitutional because it ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI Taiwan announced a T$882.4 billion ($29 billion) stimulus package on Thursday to boost its export-driven economy in the face of uncertainty from its two largest trading partners, the United States and China. Taiwan's trade-reliant economy is showing ... ( read original story ...)

Enraged Taiwan is planning to build new submarines to protect itself and US bases from China - and has vowed to shoot down any missiles fired at the island. Beijing has included new medium-range ballistic weapons in a terrifying arsenal of 1,500 rockets ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank is asking some custodian banks to stem the flow of fresh capital into its financial markets, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, as the local dollar hovers at more than two-year highs. ( read original story ...)

Tsai called the launch of the submarine plan a "historic moment" at a naval base in southern city of Kaohsiung ... relations with Taipei after switching recognition to Beijing in 1979. But Taiwan has turned to the domestic submarine project after years ... ( read original story ...)

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan will build its own submarines to get around Beijing's efforts to prevent it from purchasing such craft from overseas and ensure an adequate defense against Chinese threats, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday. During a visit ... ( read original story ...)

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan Taiwan will build its own submarines, President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday, as the self-ruled island looks to fresh arms sales by the United States, accompanied by key submarine technology, to counter a growing military threat from ... ( read original story ...)