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Over the weekend, the streets of Taipei saw a massive 82,000 people marching for same-sex marriage to be legalised. Holding placards calling for marriage equality, participants dressed up and carried rainbow flags as they filled the streets of the Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Having taken up the cause of a fellow Taiwanese held by Somali pirates, former legislator Tsai Cheng-yuan faced one hurdle after another. Government agencies at home and in three foreign capitals snubbed his pleas for help. ( read original story ...)

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Taiwan's capital, Taipei, to participate in Asia's biggest gay pride parade. Many of those who attended carried placards calling on the government to legalise same sex marriage. Dressed in colourful ... ( read original story ...)

Following India and South Korea’s decisions to become the first Asian nation to ban animal testing on cosmetics, Taiwan has also voted to end cosmetics animal testing. The approved legislation, which has a three-year implementation period and so will ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING (AP) — The chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party was due to meet with Chinese President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday as part of a continuing dialogue between the former bitter foes against the background of ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party is pushing for peace with mainland China and it holds out the possibility of a peace pact, the party's chairwoman told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the party said. Xi, general secretary of the ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI China is embarking on a divide-and-rule campaign on self-ruled Taiwan, offering to boost tourism to pro-Beijing towns and counties while giving the new pro-independence government the cold shoulder, government officials and politicians say. ( read original story ...)