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Taiwan has no realistic hope of reaching military parity with China but swarms of cheap kamikaze drones could even the odds.

Complaints by Taipei residents about defective park playgrounds have risen to more than 1,000 cases in the past two years, Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City Councilor Hung Wan-jen (洪婉臻) said ...

Others have set up the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine (TWAFP), an informal coalition of five groups, urging unity around the four demands stated in an online petition. Thus far, well over sixty Taiwanese groups have endorsed the petition. Screenshot ...

The Taipei Department of Health yesterday said it would expand its good restaurant hygiene certification mark system to more shopping districts this year, and issue the mark in four languages. After a ...

Xi Jinping, China’s 21st-century communist emperor, has vowed that Taiwan’s “unification with the motherland” is part and parcel of his goal of restoring the People’s Republic of China to global prominence if not preeminence.

Legacy seen as a reminder of Taiwan’s authoritarian past and historical mainland ties, both contrary to the ruling DPP’s political stance.

Manila and Tokyo signed a landmark pact allowing troop deployment on each other’s soil. Neither US ally is on the best terms with Beijing.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Dry cask storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel for the First Nuclear Power Plant passed administrative mediation with the New Taipei City Government on April 1, paving the ...

Throughout the festival, a 500-meter stretch of lighting and art installations will illuminate the Yanping Riverside Park in western Taipei. On Aug. 3, Yongle Plaza in Dadaocheng will host a classic ...

Taiwan said its power consumption over the next decade will grow more than previously expected, complicating its efforts to secure supplies as it undertakes an energy transition and nuclear phase-out.

On April 10, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the Taiwan Relations Act into law. It was a fraught time in the Cold War, and indeed, world history. The Soviet Union that year invaded Afghanistan.

Observing the Chinese military's rapid pace of modernization and the war in Ukraine, where drones and satellites have shown their tactical values, Taiwan is gradually waking up to the reality of ...

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence reports heightened Chinese military activity near its borders, with 10 aircraft and 6 naval vessels detected. Actions by Taiwan's Armed Forces highlight ongoing ...

Angeles City in Pampanga is a World Culinary Awards 2024 nominee! At the M.I.C.E. 2024 press conference by the Department of Tourism (DOT) on Thursday, DOT Secretary Christina Frasco announced the ...

Taiwan hopes to receive all 66 of its on-order Lockheed Martin F-16Vs by the end of 2026. The country’s defence ministry says that technical issues related to the aircraft have been resolved, according to a report by the national Central News Agency.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence on Monday issued a statement detailing heightened military activity near its borders, involving multiple aircraft and naval vessels from China’s People’s ...