カテゴリー: Taiwan
After fleeing Hong Kong for Taiwan, Lam Wing-kee speaks of the danger the island faces and the ordeal of his detention in ChinaLam Wing-kee leans forward in his chair, answering quickly and sharply to issue a warning to the people of his new home, Taiw…
Amid Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The…
Legislators from Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier, Su Tseng-chang, from taking questions, in a bitter dispute o…
Opposition party’s ‘disgusting’ offal protest prompts scuffle in Taipei legislative yuanParliamentarians in Taiwan have thrown pig guts at each other before coming to blows over plans to allow US meat imports.Members of the opposition Chinese nationali…
Exclusive: Thinktank urges UK to build democratic counterweight to China’s growing influenceThe UK should make a major post-Brexit tilt towards the Indo-Pacific region, ploughing military, financial and diplomatic resources into building a major democr…
Countries emphasise potential for cooperation and future partnerships, which Beijing opposesTaiwan and the United States have held their first high-level meetings under a new economic dialogue, inking a five-year agreement and pledging future cooperati…
Decision removes 150 planes from service, leaving the island with a limited fleet amid increased flyovers by Chinese forcesTaiwan has grounded all its F16 fighter jets for safety checks as rescuers continue to search for one that went missing during a …
Regulator says it will not renew licence of Chung T’ien Television after repeated violationsA pro-China TV station will be taken off air after Taiwan’s media regulator found it had failed to address serious and frequent findings of bias and disinformat…
Health body says countries’ names had been blocked on their Facebook page because of an ‘onslaught’ of cyber attacksThe World Health Organisation has removed social media filters which were censoring the words “Taiwan” and “China” from its Facebook pag…
Increase in sorties comes amid reported unease in Taipei over softer China stance if Joe Biden wins US presidency China’s military sent planes towards Taiwan on 25 of the 31 days of October, the highest frequency of the antagonistic sorties all year, a…
Pride march follows national success story in curbing Covid-19 pandemicAt the entrance to Taipei’s Pride march on Saturday, Pearl Jain and Lance Xie held up a sign offering free hugs. Similar placards were waved above the pulsating crowd of 100,000 swe…
Authorities thank public for helping to reach milestone, as cases surge in many countriesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reached a record 200 days without any domestically transmitted cases of Covid-19, underlinin…
Two female soldiers and their civilian partners are due to take part in this year’s ceremonyTwo same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army’s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island’s government legalised marria…
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Raytheon named along with US officials who played a role in weapons salesChina will sanction several major defence companies in retaliation for multibillion dollar US arms sales to Taiwan, the f…
Lee Meng-chu is accused of filming Chinese troops gathering at the border with Hong Kong during protests in 2019A Taiwanese man detained in China and accused of endangering national security appeared on Chinese television on Sunday evening, “confessing…