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Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) Taiwanese paddlers Cheng I-ching () and Li Yu-jhun () took the women's doubles title at the WTT Contender Amman on Sunday, rallying to beat Prithika Pavade and Camille Lutz of France in the final....

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The Taiwanese military is participating in the government's ongoing efforts to provide post-disaster relief to Turkey, by transporting in-kind donations for survivors of a devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck the coun...

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Monday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The U.S. dollar was traded at NT$30.242 at 10 a.m. Monday on the Taipei Foreign Exchange, up NT$0.106 from the previous close....

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened down 21.89 points at 15,564.76 Monday on turnover of NT$2.67 billion (US$88.38 million)....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) Taiwanese long jumper Lin Yu-tang ( ) on Sunday won gold with a jump of 8.02 meters at the biannual Asian Indoor Athletics Championships....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) More than 1 million viewers visited the Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taipei on Saturday, the highest single-day figure so far for the 2023 edition of the annual event, though the crowd did not hit 90 percent capacity which would requir...

Taipei Feb. 12 (CNA) Taiwan's Formosa Satellite 5 (Formosat-5) has been providing satellite imagery to assist disaster relief work in Turkey following a deadly magnitude 7.8 earthquake in that country last Monday, with its latest orbital rotation sche...

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) Sunday was the most memorable day for Kaohsiung basketball in many years, if not ever, as former NBA players Jeremy Lin and Dwight Howard played their first professional games in the city for P.LEAGUE+ (PLG) and T1 LEAGUE, respective...

Adiyaman, Turkey/Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) A Turkish volunteer with the Taiwan Research and Rescue team in Adiyaman, one of the areas hit worst by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Turkey, praised the team's perseverance after watching it race against time to...

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) Kenyan runners Joseph Mwangi Ngare and Priscila Chepatiy Kipruto won the men's and women's categories, respectively, of the Kinmen Marathon on Sunday, while local runners Chiang Chieh-wen () and Joymei Lee () finished right b...

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) Taiwan's international flight operations are set to reach pre-COVID-10 levels in around mid-2024, a senior Boeing executive has forecast....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) The first batch of donations from Taiwan for survivors of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey early Monday has arrived in Turkey on Sunday morning, according to the Taiwan-based Tzu Chi Foundation....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) Taiwan reported 17,199 new cases of COVID-19 and 57 deaths from the disease on Sunday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) The annual Baishatun Mazu Pilgrimage began in Miaoli County early Sunday, with more than 110,000 worshippers set to attend the nine-day event, one of the largest annual religious processions in Taiwan....

Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) on Saturday called on people to choose a different channel to make their donations for Turkey and Syria if they feel uncomfortable about the one set up by the Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) The search and rescue team dispatched by Taiwan's government to Turkey, to help rescue possible survivors after a deadly earthquake devastated the southeastern part of the country and neighboring Syria, is scheduled to return hom...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwan's team to the inaugural Youth Baseball5 Asia Cup on Saturday won the gold medal by defeating China in the final, while also securing a place in the inaugural Youth Baseball5 World Cup....

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world's largest contract electronics maker, took the 10th place in semiconductor purchases worldwide last year, according to U.S.-based market advisory firm Gartner Inc....

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taichung Suns head coach Chris Gavina told CNA his team's 95-90 come-from-behind road win against the TaiwanBeer HeroBears in the T1 LEAGUE on Saturday reflected...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwan table tennis women's doubles pairing Cheng I-ching () and Li Yu-jhun () secured their 2023 WTT Contender Amman semifinal spot by dispatching Sarah De Nutte and Ni Xialian () of Luxembourg in Jordan on Friday....

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has urged Beijing to resume talks with Taipei without preconditions, following a meeting between the opposition Kuomintang's (KMT) officials and China's top Taiwan affairs leader Wa...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) As the death and injury toll in earthquake-struck Turkey continues to rise, cash donations continue to pour in from different parts of Taiwan's society, with more than NT$271.77 million (US$9 million) received as of Friday aftern...

Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwanese boxer Chen Nien-chin () won gold at the Golden Belt Series Marrakesh 2023 by a unanimous decision over Brazilian boxing star Beatriz Iasmim Soares Ferreira in Morocco on Friday....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan's manufacturing activity stayed in contraction mode for the seventh consecutive month in January following a fall in new orders and production during the prolonged Lunar New Year holiday, the Chung-Hua Institution for Econ...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Friday said it has denied a request by China's former top religious affairs official Ye Xiaowen () to visit Taiwan for the funeral of Hsing Yun (), founder of the Kaohsiung-based Buddhist org...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Traffic controls will be in place on Taipei's Yangde Boulevard on weekends and holidays from Saturday until March 19, amid expected heavy traffic due to the 2023 Yangmingshan Flower Festival....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) overcame a Lunar New Year-truncated working month to generate record-high January revenues of NT$200.05 billion (US$6.64 billion), the world's largest contract chipmaker announced Fri...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The organizer of the World Baseball Classic's (WBC) Pool A games in Taiwan said Friday it had filed a protest with Major Baseball League (MLB) over the absence of Taiwanese players on official posters....

Adiyaman, Turkey, Feb. 10 (CNA) Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolu on Thursday thanked the Taiwan Search & Rescue Team for helping his country in the aftermath of a devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria earlier this w...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan closed slightly lower Friday as sentiment turned cautious after the U.S. markets gave up their earlier gains overnight amid renewed concerns over an aggressive Federal Reserve, dealers said....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said Friday that it has received more than NT$83.53 million (US$2.77 million) in cash donations for relief efforts in earthquake-hit Turkey....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan reported its first hantavirus infection of 2023, involving a woman living in central Taiwan, according to a press statement released by the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Friday....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Former NBA stars Dwight Howard and Jeremy Lin will be playing on different courts in Kaohsiung on Sunday afternoon, but they will still be competing against each other in a battle for fan interest....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The Ankeng Light Rail (LRT) began trial operations Friday, with passengers able to ride the line in New Taipei's Xindian District for free until March 12....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) MSCI Inc., a global index provider, has raised Taiwan's weighting in one of its major indexes but left the country's weighting in another two unchanged....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan's lawmakers on Friday decided to invite Markta Pekarov Adamov, speaker of the Czech parliament's lower house, to deliver a speech in the Legislature when she visits Taiwan next month....

Washington, Feb. 9 (CNA) Ely Ratner, United States assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said at a Senate hearing Thursday that he does not think China will engage in any...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Members of the Taiwan Search & Rescue Team miraculously pulled a woman from a collapsed residential building in the Turkish province of Adiyaman on Thursday (local time), about 89 hours after a massive earthquake devastated the area....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Members of the Taiwan Search & Rescue Team miraculously pulled a woman from a collapsed residential building in the Turkish province of Adiyaman on Thursday (local time), about 89 hours after a massive earthquake devastated the area....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Vice Premier Cheng Wen-tsan () said Friday that the government will soon propose a law amendment aimed at imposing heavier fines on private companies found guilty of leaking people's personal data....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The U.S. dollar rose against the Taiwan dollar Friday, gaining NT$0.068 to close at NT$30.136....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan has increased its fines on pork products brought into the country from Singapore after the city-state became the 17th African swine fever (ASF)-affected country in Asia, Taiwan's Central Emergency Operation Center for ASF ...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan on Friday reported 19,629 new cases of COVID-19 and 70 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Taiwan shares ended down 12.06 points, or 0.08 percent, at 15,586.65 Friday on turnover of NT$209.77 billion (US$6.96 billion)....

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Vice Chairman Andrew Hsia () called for better understanding across the Taiwan Strait to improve people's lives in a meeting with Song Tao (), head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, in Beijing on T...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) has predicted warm and...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Friday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The U.S. dollar was traded at NT$30.096 at 10 a.m. Friday on the Taipei Foreign Exchange, up NT$0.028 from the previous close....