Taiwan

The fire was said to start on the fourth floor of the building in the city’s Zhonghe District at around 8:00 p.m. and quickly spread to rooms on the fifth floor before being put down an...

News Hour: Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen landed in Honolulu on Saturday en route to the island’s diplomatic allies among Pacific nations and set off for a visit to a Pearl Harbor memorial, despite strong objections to...

News Hour: China warned self-ruled Taiwan on Wednesday that it would “reap the consequences” of promoting formal independence, a red line for Beijing which claims the island as its own. Taiwan’s government hit back, saying it...

News Hour: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has accepted the resignation of Premier Lin Chuan, the ruling party said on Monday, a departure that had been widely expected because of declining public support for the president. Taiwan...

News Hour: China flew several fighter and reconnaissance aircraft near Taiwan in a training exercise, the self-ruled island’s defense ministry said on Friday. Despite decades of growing trade across the Taiwan Strait, China has never renounced...

News Hour: Taiwan plans to spend T$1 billion ($32.73 million) every year over a period of five years on artificial intelligence research centers, the government said, in a move that will help its technology firms enter...

News Hour: Taiwan has culled nearly 130,000 poultry since the start of this year as authorities on Tuesday reported a fresh strain of bird flu cases on the island. The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has...

News Hour: Protesting Uber drivers circled Taiwan’s transport ministry on Friday as the ride-hailing app halted operations on the island following an impasse with the government which deems the service illegal. The US firm announced last...

News Hour: Taiwan confirmed a new bird flu case on Thursday, the fourth this year, according to a statement posted on the website of the island’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. The H5N2...

News Hour: Beijing has lodged a protest with the United States over a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. “We have already...