# taiwan - Monday 19 September, 2022
# Up In The Air
# Up In The Air
The US president said it ‘remains to be seen’ if he will seek re-election.
# taiwan - Sunday 28 August, 2022
# Tensions
# Tensions
It is the first transit since China staged unprecedented military drills around the island following the visit of US Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
# taiwan - Sunday 14 August, 2022
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
The five-member delegation is led by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
# taiwan - Thursday 11 August, 2022
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
China has repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under control.
# taiwan - Tuesday 9 August, 2022
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
China launched its largest-ever air and sea exercises around Taiwan last week.
# taiwan - Monday 8 August, 2022
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
Taiwan is also due to begin its own live-fire drills tomorrow.
# taiwan - Sunday 7 August, 2022
# Nancy Pelosi
# Nancy Pelosi
Beijing has raged at a trip to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
# taiwan - Saturday 6 August, 2022
# Tensions
# Tensions
China launched live-fire military drills following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan earlier this week.
# taiwan - Friday 5 August, 2022
The move came after the Chinese military staged military drills and fired missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
# taiwan - Thursday 4 August, 2022
# Tension
# Tension
China’s military drills were prompted by a visit to the island by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
# taiwan - Wednesday 3 August, 2022
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
China is gearing up for military exercises dangerously close to the island’s shores in retaliation for the visit.
# taiwan - Tuesday 2 August, 2022
# Us China Relations
# Us China Relations
The Democrat’s trip to Taipei is the highest-profile visit by an elected US official in 25 years.
# Tension
# Tension
China’s ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday that a visit would be “very much dangerous, very much provocative”.
# taiwan - Friday 29 July, 2022
# China
# China
The leaders of China and US agreed to hold their first in-person summit.
# taiwan - Friday 22 July, 2022
# Global Relations
# Global Relations
The report calls Russia’s war on Ukraine a “serious violation of international law”.
# taiwan - Monday 11 July, 2022
# Courts
# Courts
The 15-year-old is challenging the requirement that examination answers must be in simplified Mandarin characters.
# taiwan - Friday 10 June, 2022
# Tensions
# Tensions
China’s defence minister made the comments during his first face-to-face meeting with his US counterpart in Singapore.
# taiwan - Monday 23 May, 2022
# US
# US
A Chinese official referred to the Taiwan issue as a “purely internal affair for China”, in reaction to Biden’s remark.
# taiwan - Saturday 6 November, 2021
# Tzu-Pao Yang
# Tzu-Pao Yang
Tensions between Beijing and Taipei have spiked to their highest level in years.
# taiwan - Wednesday 27 October, 2021
# United Nations
# United Nations
The US has ratcheted up tensions, calling for Taiwan to have greater involvement in the world body.
# taiwan - Thursday 14 October, 2021
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
The 13-storey building caught fire early today in the city of Kaohsiung.
# taiwan - Sunday 10 October, 2021
# Tensions
# Tensions
Tsai Ing-wen also firmly rejected Chinese military coercion in a speech to mark the country’s National Day.
# taiwan - Saturday 9 October, 2021
# Tensions
# Tensions
Self-governed Taiwan , which has never formally declared independence, lives under the constant threat of invasion by China.
# taiwan - Saturday 2 October, 2021
# Tensions
# Tensions
Beijing marked its National Day on Friday with its biggest aerial show of force against Taiwan to date.
# taiwan - Friday 10 September, 2021
# Typhoon Chanthu
# Typhoon Chanthu
The Philippine meteorological agency said Typhoon Chanthu could become a category 5 ‘super typhoon’.
# taiwan - Saturday 3 April, 2021
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
The owner of the unmanned truck that caused the accident has been questioned.
# taiwan - Friday 2 April, 2021
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
A passenger train reported collided with a truck which had crashed onto tracks from a cliff above.
# taiwan - Thursday 29 October, 2020
# Covid19
# Covid19
A domestic case was last reported on April 12.
# taiwan - Monday 22 June, 2020
# Ring Of Fire
# Ring Of Fire
It was known as a ‘ring of fire’ because the moon covered most, but not all, of the sun
# taiwan - Saturday 25 April, 2020
# Censorship
# Censorship
Lam Wing-kee was a bookseller from Hong Kong who disappeared and then reappeared in custody of mainland China’s authorities.
# taiwan - Wednesday 23 January, 2019
# Gigi Wu
# Gigi Wu
Gigi Wu became a social media star for taking selfies on top of mountains dressed in a bikini.
# taiwan - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
# Speech
# Speech
China still sees democratic Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified, despite the two sides being ruled separately since the end of a civil war on the mainland in 1949.
# taiwan - Tuesday 23 October, 2018
# Taipei
# Taipei
The earthquake struck 104 kilometres off the coast of Hualien city.
# taiwan - Monday 22 October, 2018
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
Among those who died, the youngest was nine years old.
# taiwan - Friday 21 September, 2018
# Cody Wilson
# Cody Wilson
Austin Police Department announced on Wednesday that the 30-year-old is wanted for sexual assault.
# taiwan - Saturday 28 April, 2018
# Live Fire Drills
# Live Fire Drills
The live fire drills will take place in June.
# taiwan - Thursday 8 February, 2018
# Taiwan
# Taiwan
At least nine people died in Tuesday’s earthquake in the popular tourist city of Hualien.
# taiwan - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
# Rescue Efforts
# Rescue Efforts
Tower blocks have partially collapsed and it is unclear how many people remain in these buildings.
# taiwan - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
# Trapped
# Trapped
Local media are reporting that a number of people are trapped inside.
# taiwan - Wednesday 24 May, 2017
# Love Is Love
# Love Is Love
“I’m leaping with joy like a bird,” one person said. Activists have fought for almost 30 years for gay marriage equality.
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