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A delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday on a previously unannounced trip, the latest group of senior officials from the country to visit the island and defy Beijing, which has ... ( read original story ...)

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said a Chinese invasion of Taiwan remains a “distinct threat,” while insisting that the Biden administration hasn’t changed its position over the island’s ... ( read original story ...)

KMT Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) on Monday posted a picture of Chen’s campaign team on Facebook, including their names and telephone numbers, saying that several of them are the daughter ... ( read original story ...)

Though it put up a relatively better show in the second (31-36), it was only in the third quarter that Taipei took the game away from the Asian powerhouse. Showing excellent defensive capabilities and ... ( read original story ...)

A group of eight U.S. lawmakers will mark the third visit to Taiwan by Congressional members after the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip there last month. ( read original story ...)

China's ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, said he wouldn't use the word "invasion" to describe a forceful takeover of Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

Tanks pounded targets and fighter jets roared overhead on Wednesday as Taiwan's military carried out its latest combat drills after weeks of sabre-rattling by giant neighbour China. ( read original story ...)

Tsai says in addition to intrusions by drones and aircraft, Beijing uses ‘false information to create disturbance in minds of people’ ... ( read original story ...)

STORY: Flares lit up targets on a mountain side at a base in Taiwan’s far-southern Pingtung County while tanks and cannons fired in almost complete darkness.Apache attack helicopters, Ching-kuo ... ( read original story ...)

Police yesterday arrested a man on suspicion of murder the day after officers found his brother’s dismembered body at a home in New Taipei City’s Yonghe District (永和). Liang Na-ke (梁納克), 54, was ... ( read original story ...)

Three Chinese fighter jets crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, which normally acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, on Tuesday, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as China continues its ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan offered to emergency responders to aid China's rescue efforts after an earthquake Tuesday, the first olive branch amid weeks of heightened military tensions. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan reported the presence of a Chinese military drone in its air defense identification zone for the first time on Monday. ( read original story ...)

The combat skills of Taiwan's military are now "more mature" and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government expressed its condolences to China on Tuesday for an earthquake in Sichuan province and said it was ready to send rescuers, in a sign of goodwill to Beijing despite weeks of ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered her sympathy to China on Tuesday after an earthquake in Sichuan province and expressed her condolences to those who died and their families, the presidential ... ( read original story ...)