Taiwan

Prosecutors investigating Taiwan’s worst railway disaster in seven decades have appealed to the public for any photographs they may have taken of the crash that killed at least 50 people last week

A train has collided with unmanned vehicle that had rolled down a hill in eastern Taiwan

A Taiwan train carrying around 350 people derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring dozens more in the in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters.

A promotion prompted an unexpected craze that was dubbed “salmon chaos” on social media and by Taiwanese news outlets

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said in a Facebook post that Taiwan did not experience a typhoon in 2020, which usually produces plenty of rainfall.

Taiwan’s economy grew 3.11% in 2020 compared to a year ago — outpacing China’s 2.3% expansion during the same period.

President Donald Trump broke with decades of U.S. foreign policy by moving his country closer to Taiwan over the last four years — angering Beijing.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s latest move on Taiwan could upend a major foundation underpinning the U.S.-China relations, said Kevin Rudd.

China’s state media lashed out at the latest move on Taiwan by the departing Trump administration

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the State Department is voiding longstanding restrictions on how U.S. diplomats and others have contact with their counterparts in Taiwan

Countries close to the international date line, including Australia, China and Taiwan, began to ring in 2021 with fireworks shows.

The best pockets of recovery are domestic travel in Taiwan, Thailand and increasingly, Vietnam, said John Brown of Agoda, a subsidiary of Booking Holdings.

The Trump administration has notified Congress that it has approved the sale of $600 million in armed drones to Taiwan, the latest in a series of arms transfers for the island

The State Department says it has notified Congress of plans for a $2.37 billion sale of Harpoon attack missiles to Taiwan, a move likely to anger China.

A 3-year-old girl is safe in Taiwan after she was caught by the tail of a large kite during a Nanlioao kite festival on Sunday. Horrified bystanders caught the little girl as the wind slackened, but not before she was thrown into the air for several seconds.

A 3-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported safe after becoming caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several meters into the air

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has arrived in Taiwan in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979

Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that it says is linked to the Chinese government and was pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers. Beijing denied involvement Friday and said the company should instead take down accounts smearing China.

Taiwan has found success in the fight against the coronavirus, recording only 440 cases as of last week out of the 23 million people on the Island, including seven deaths. The Chinese Professional Baseball League was the first to return during the pandemic and this month they have even started letting fans in the stands.