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US officials voice hope that isolation measures are working amid accusations of racism in fight between Taiwan and WHOCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGlobal cases of Covid-19 approached 1.5 million, as both the US and the UK…
US officials voice hope that isolation measures are working amid accusations of racism in fight between Taiwan and WHOCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGlobal cases of Covid-19 approached 1.5 million, as both the US and the UK…
Daily numbers of confirmed cases rising again as people rush home to beat border closuresCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAsian countries that started to feel tentative hope that their responses to the coronavirus pandemic we…
Canadian Bruce Aylward, who visited Wuhan in February, appeared to hang up or be cut off when pressed on Taipei’s record Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA senior advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO) appeared to han…
Country learned ‘harsh lesson’ from Sars and has kept infections under 50, despite being blocked by Beijing from being part of the WHOCoronavirus – latest updatesShawn Bryant knew he would be under quarantine for two weeks when he arrived in Taiwan fro…
After the Sars outbreak on the island state in 2003, when 150,000 were quarantined, Taiwan vowed to be better prepared next timeAs I stepped into a cosy restaurant in Taipei, the waiter signalled for me to stop, then ran at me, gun in hand. He held it …
Beijing’s draconian measures to contain outbreak have delayed global transmissionThe World Health Organization is having to perform a diplomatic balancing act over the new coronavirus outbreak, caught between China – whose draconian measures to contain…
Taxi driver with diabetes and hepatitis B is fifth fatality outside mainland ChinaA taxi driver has died from the coronavirus in Taiwan, marking the first such death on the island and the fifth fatality outside mainland China from an epidemic that has …
President castigates Beijing, saying it should be containing coronavirus outbreak insteadTaiwan has scrambled fighter jets after Chinese military aircraft briefly entered its airspace, the first major incursion since the island’s Beijing-wary president…
The World Health Organization should not exclude Taiwan from efforts to tackle the outbreak, writes David YL Lin of the Taipei Representative Office. David E Hanke says an anthropomorphic explanation of viruses can be dangerous. And Robert East warns a…
China has repeatedly said that it will bring Taiwan under its authority, but president says election result shows citizens don’t agreeTaiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has called on China to “face reality” and “review” its current policy toward the de fa…
After re-election of Tsai Ing-Wen, who vowed to protect the country from China, the foreign minister pushes backBeijing has said that anyone seeking to keep Taiwan separate from China would “leave a stink for 10,000 years” in its strongest remarks sinc…
7 January 1950: Unconditional recognition of Mao Zedong’s regime as the legitimate government of all China sees the withdrawal of support from NationalistsLondon, FridayBritain’s recognition of the Communist Central People’s Government as the legitimat…
Air force general Shen Yi-ming died when aircraft carrying 13 people went down near TaipeiTaiwan’s top military official was among eight people killed when a helicopter crash-landed on Thursday in a mountainous area near the capital, Taipei, the defenc…
Contest is in effect a referendum on the future of the self-governed island’s relationship with ChinaCitizen groups in Taiwan are fighting a Russian-style influence and misinformation campaign that is believed to originate across the strait in mainland…