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Taipei is hosting the 29th Summer Universiade beginning on Aug. 19 but the organizing federation appears to not be sure what to call the island where the event is being held. The International ... ( read original story ...)

China, Chinese Taipei and Japan shared the 7 table tennis gold medals on offer at the 27th Universiade, which saw 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries descend onto the Russian city of Kazan. ( read original story ...)

The founder of one of the companies said the vaccine donation "will give the people of Taiwan some breathing room and more confidence in facing the pandemic." ... ( read original story ...)

For months Taiwan had struggled to buy millions of Covid-19 vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech SE, in part because President’s Tsai Ing-wen’s administration sought to go around a Chinese company that ... ( read original story ...)

For many years, Taiwanese defense planners assumed that, if and when China invades the island democracy, the main Chinese force would sail across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait and assault the beaches of ... ( read original story ...)

The convoluted deal involves three different companies and a charity, reflecting the political tensions between Taiwan and China. ( read original story ...)

COVID-19 vaccine via two major Taiwanese companies reached a head last week, the German firm's Chinese sales agent put forward a template contract seeking access to Taiwanese medical records. ( read original story ...)

Beijing had offered Taiwan the vaccines, amid a major shortage on the island, but Taiwan’s ruling party did not want to deal with China directly ... ( read original story ...)

Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company agreed on Monday to purchase 10 million doses of Germany's BioNTech vaccine to donate them to Taiwanese health authorities ... ( read original story ...)

With support from the Bureau of Energy under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and the British Office in Taipei, Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI) and the UK's Offshore Renewable ... ( read original story ...)

Despite a global chip shortage, Chris Lin of Taiwan-based Aspeed Technology is finding ways to keep moving forward with growth at his tech firm. ( read original story ...)

Two Taiwanese high-tech companies announced a donation Monday of 10 million doses of the anti-coronavirus vaccine developed by Germany’s BioNTech to the island’s government. The announcement ... ( read original story ...)

The world's two biggest technology companies are buying 10 million doses of a Covid vaccine for Taiwan. Taiwanese firm Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwanese tech giants Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced Monday they will each donate five million coronavirus vaccine doses to the government in a deal with a ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's Foxconn and TSMC said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany's BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine, putting the total cost of the highly politicised deal at around ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's government has tried for months to buy the vaccine directly from BioNTech and blames China for nixing a deal. ( read original story ...)