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Tokyo, March 6 (CNA) Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai () visited Tokyo's Central Wholesale Market on Monday to promote Taiwan-grown produce, such as green jujubes, and thanked Japanese consumers for their support for Taiwanese fruit....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) A Taiwan government agency on Monday proposed four possible reforms for how Saturday...

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan rose almost 1 percent Monday as buying was sparked by the gains on the U.S. markets at the end of last week amid reduced concerns over rate hikes by the Federal Reserve....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The team that will represent Taiwan in the World Baseball Classic won its ninth straight exhibition game Sunday behind three home runs to overcome a poor showing by its pitchers....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Habit, a sense of security and fear of illness were just some of the reasons given for continued mask-wearing on the first day since face coverings became optional at schools and universities across Taiwan....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The 10 biggest water users at the Hsinchu Science Park have started a program to reduce their usage by 5 percent because of a lack of rainfall, said Wayne Wang (), director-general of the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The Taipei International Machine Tool Show 2023 (TIMTOS), one of the leading machinery exhibitions in the region, opened Monday with more than 1,000 exhibitors from Taiwan and abroad on hand to showcase their products....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The U.S. dollar fell against the Taiwan dollar Monday, shedding NT$0.051 to close at NT$30.576....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported 7,080 new cases of COVID-19 and 45 deaths from the disease on Monday....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has reported a more than 11 percent year-over-year decline in sales for February amid a wider weakening of global demand for electronics....

Istanbul, March 6 (CNA) A month after the devastating earthquake in southeast Turkey, the head of the country's AKUT Search and Rescue Association thanked Taiwan for its assistance, while acknowledging that the areas damaged by the quake still face a ...

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini said in Taipei on Monday that his country remains committed to its 55-year diplomatic relations with Taiwan and is opposed to...

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng () said Monday that a military transport aircraft was being dispatched to deliver meat for frontline Taiwanese troops on the isle of Xiju, after a shortage there for almost a month....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Taiwan shares ended up 155.09 points, or 0.99 percent, at 15,763.51 Monday on turnover of NT$242.24 billion (US$7.93 billion)....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Coastguard teams from Taiwan and Japan are searching for the seven crewmembers of a Taiwanese fishing boat that capsized off the coast on Japan on the weekend, and one body has been recovered, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) sai...

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Taiwanese table tennis players Cheng I-ching () and Li Yu-jhun () finished in second place in the women's doubles at the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 in India on Sunday, after they lost to a pair from Japan....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The U.S. dollar was traded at NT$30.585 at 10 a.m. Monday on the Taipei Foreign Exchange, down NT$0.042 from the previous close....

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Monday are as follows:...

Taipei, March 6 (CNA) The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened up 66.86 points at 15,675.28 Monday on turnover of NT$4.15 billion (US$135.71 million)....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) The mask mandate imposed on campuses and educational institutions across Taiwan will be relaxed on Monday, enabling students to attend classes indoors without masks for the first time in over 800 days....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) When the Hsinchu Jko Lioneers took a 17-point lead early in the first quarter against Formosa Taishin Dreamers at Taichung Intercontinental basketball dome Sunday, they almost certainly did not expect to go home disappointed again....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) The wholesale price of domestically-produced eggs will be raised by NT$3 to a new high of N$55 (US$1.80) per catty (600 grams), while the farm gate price of eggs will also rise by NT$3 to NT$45.5 per catty, starting Monday, an egg pr...

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) called on Beijing on Sunday to face up to the reality that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait do not belong to each other, in response to China's reaffirmation of its commitment to the...

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Visiting Prime Minister of Eswatini Cleopas Sipho Dlamini said he was looking forward to his first-ever trip to Taiwan after touching down at Taoyuan International Airport on Sunday afternoon....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Malaysian-Chinese Taiwan-based writer Chang Kuei-hsing () was awarded the eighth Newman Prize for Chinese Literature at the University of Oklahoma in the United States on Friday....

Taipei, March.5 (CNA) The legislative by-election in Nantou County onSaturday, won narrowly by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over the Kuomintang (KMT), has implications for both parties ahead of the presidential election in January 2024, s...

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) A motorcyclist was detained late last month with narcotics on his person and...

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported 10,307 new cases of COVID-19 and 60 deaths from the disease on Sunday....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Most parts of Taiwan will see warm and sunny weather on Sunday and the rest of next week, but there will be a large temperature difference between the daytime and nights, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB)....

Taipei, March 5 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday are as follows:...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan and the Philippines are currently in the process of discussing the extradition of Taiwan nationals recently arrested by the Filipino police, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines said Saturday....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Two-time P. LEAGUE+ (PLG) champions the Taipei Fubon Braves recorded their second consecutive defeat in the East Asia Super League Champions Week after suffering a five-point 83-78 loss to Japan's Ryukyu Golden Kings in Okinawa, ...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) A delegation led by Prime Minister of Eswatini Cleopas Sipho Dlamini will arrive in Taiwan on Sunday for a visit that is set to include meetings with President Tsai Ing-wen () and other top government officials, Taiwan's Ministry...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan People's Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je () is scheduled to visit the U.S. in April and meet with officials in Washington D.C. as the party's official presidential candidate, according to a TPP spokesman on Saturday....

The question was a rather simple one: Can water form a vortex without the pull of gravity?...

New Taipei, March 4 (CNA) The Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) on Saturday kicked off a series of special screenings to honor Taiwanese contemporary dance troupe, Cloud Gate Dance Theater, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year....

New Taipei, March 4 (CNA) The New Taipei CTBC DEA collected their sixth consecutive win after topping the visiting Taichung Suns 96-88 on Saturday, to widen their lead at the top of the T1 LEAGUE standings....

Kaohsiung, March 4 (CNA) Six individuals have received jail terms of between eight and 20 months from the Kaohsiung District Court after being found guilty of attempting to smuggle 154 cats from China that were subsequently euthanized in 2021....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) defended on Saturday the National Symphony Orchestra's (NSO) decision to cancel a concert by Russian-born opera star Anna Netrebko, a day after the Russian representative office cri...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) About 1,700 passengers on 14 flights at Taoyuan International Airport faced delays Saturday afternoon after an unauthorized drone was spotted near a runway, according to the airport operator....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) A man who ran unsuccessfully for ward chief in New Taipei last year was indicted on Saturday for contravening the Anti-Infiltration Act and other laws for accepting COVID-19 antigen rapid testing kits from a Chinese government agency...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Nantou County police said Saturday three people are being investigated for apparently installing pinhole cameras outside a polling station in the county, where a legislative by-election was held on Saturday....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) About 310 companies attended the National Taiwan University (NTU) annual job fair on Saturday, with jobseekers hoping to land positions at some of the nation's top firms, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), w...

Taipei, March. 4 (CNA) Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Pei-hui () on Saturday defeated the Kuomintang's (KMT) Lin Ming-chen () in a legislative by-election in Nantou county, widely considered a much-needed boost for the ruling party....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported 11,397 new cases of COVID-19 and 71 deaths from the disease on Saturday....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Google Taiwan is reducing its workforce in the local market after Alphabet Inc., the parent company of the American search engine, announced in January that it would lay off 6 percent or 12,000 of its employees globally, as the inter...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Election officials in seven townships in Nantou County began counting votes in a by-election for a seat in the Legislature, after the pools closed at 4 p.m....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves rose more than US$1 billion at the end of February from a month earlier, marking the fifth consecutive month of growth and hitting a new high mainly due to an increase in returns from the centra...

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan has further loosened its COVID-19 control protocols on international cruises in an attempt to boost tourism, the Maritime and Port Bureau announced Saturday....

Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Taiwan's manufacturing activities returned to expansion mode in February, breaking a seven-month contraction streak, on the back of a relatively low comparison base over a month earlier, according to the Chung-Hua Institution for...