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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In the first week of September, Taipei Zoo bid farewell to three of its oldest mammals.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taipei has introduced a new travel pass, the WMG2025 FunPass, to promote tourism ahead of the World Masters Games (WMG) 2025. The event is scheduled to take place from May 17-30 in Taipei and New Taipei, It aims to promote lifelong sports, foster international exchanges, and highlight the cities' innovative technology.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told sailors aboard a combat-ready warship at a major base in the Taiwan Strait on Friday that he had their backs, thanking them for safeguarding Taiwanese security at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing.

Taiwan's semiconductor industry, a linchpin of the global tech supply chain, is grappling with an existential challenge: how to maintain growth while dramatically reducing its environmental footprint.

Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes has been selected to open the 2024 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival where it will also make its Asian premiere. The festival takes place from Nov 7 to 24.

China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait.

He has been embroiled in a corruption scandal involving a property development. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Moscow and Beijing lashed out at Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te after he said China would reclaim land lost to Russia if its territorial concerns were driving its claim over Taiwan. "In a recent interview on Taiwanese TV program The View with Catherine Chang,

The Taipei District Court ruled on Thursday that Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je should be detained and held incommunicado over alleged corruption from when he served as Mayor of

Amongst those accused is Naura Technology Group, one of the suppliers to China’s largest chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. The organization has denied the allegations, affirming that the Taiwan office was established “in accordance with local laws and regulations.”

The ongoing corruption investigation into Ko Wen-je, the founder and leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and a candidate in Taiwan’s most recent presidential election, has sent shockwaves ...

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An ex-Taipei mayor and former presidential candidate was detained on Thursday for alleged corruption after a Taiwanese court reversed a decision to release him, citing the risk of him destroying evidence and colluding with witnesses. Ko Wen-je, leader of ...

Ko Wen-je, founder of the Taiwan People’s Party, has been detained amid a corruption investigation into a property redevelopment project from when he was Taipei mayor.Most Read from BloombergHow Air ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taipei District Court detained Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) without bail and visitation rights on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 5) amid an ongoing corruption investigation, per CNA.

Taiwanese badminton star Tai Tzu-ying has advanced to the top 16 of this year's Taipei Open. She has reiterated that she still plans to retire by the end of this year, choosing to participate in this tournament because it's held in her home country.