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Starting on November 1, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation will provide menstrual products on request at 20 of its busiest stations. ( read original story ...)

Avoiding war in the Taiwan Strait requires all sides to be deterred. At a minimum, Taiwan must be deterred from declaring formal independence, Washington must be deterred from recognizing Taiwan as an ... ( read original story ...)

The Senate hopes to pass a defense policy bill later this year, and that bill now includes significant military aid to Taiwan despite warnings from China. ( read original story ...)

In September this year a retired tech billionaire in Taipei, white-haired and bespectacled, called the island's media to a press conference to tell them he was pledging one billion Taiwan dollars ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s economy minister warned that a Chinese blockade of the island would harm other nations in the region, including China itself, while stressing that Taipei has made plans for such a scenario. ( read original story ...)

Entry rules to island lifted to allow unfettered access, while mainland China remains one of the few places keeping borders closed ... ( read original story ...)

The female of a pair of Formosan pangolins borrowed by Prague Zoo from Taipei Zoo earlier this year for a breeding project is pregnant ... seeks to eradicate the invasive species from Taitung City’s ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s navy plans to update its aging fleet of warships, a move intended to counter ramped up military pressure from China.Most Read from BloombergHere’s How Weird Things Are Getting in the Housing ... ( read original story ...)

Jay Park was showered with undergarments from several die-hard fans during a recent concert in Taipei. Fans started throwing their bras at the Seattle-born rapper, whose full name is Park Jae-beom, ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has threatened to shoot down any Chinese drones that approach its airspace, suggesting that by deploying them Beijing would be firing “the first shot” in ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's largest metro line will begin a trial next month offering women free sanitary products, spurred by a recent push in some neighbouring Asian countries to tackle "period poverty". ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has been carefully studying the lessons of the Ukraine war to inform how it may react should China, which views the democratically ruled island as its own territory, ever makes good on threats ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is bolstering its defences and steeling itself for the possibility of war with China as leader Xi Jinping readies to assume a third term in power and tries to achieve what no predecessor has ... ( read original story ...)

Elon Musk's suggestion in an interview with the Financial Times sparked an angry reaction from Taipei, which has opposed unification calls with China. Watch this video for more details. #china #taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

When Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met before the Russian invasion of Ukraine there was some fanciful speculation in the West about a territorial carve-up. Coul ... ( read original story ...)

Defending far-off Taiwan and our allies seems to many like yet another foolish military misadventure for our country. But it is not. ( read original story ...)