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Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) A memorial service was held Tuesday to commemorate former Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Lin I-hsiung's () mother and twin daughters killed at their home 43 years ago, one of the highest-profile unsolved case committed dur...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Eight-time NBA All Star Dwight Howard and his Taoyuan Leopards teammate Michael Efevberha posted 37 and 36 points, respectively, in the inaugural T1 LEAGUE All-Star Game, contributing to a 55-point 179-124 blowout team Infinity win o...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Protesters rushed Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an's () speech at a 228 Incident memorial Tuesday, with demonstrators calling on Chiang to apologize for the deadly 1947 government crackdown overseen by his purported great-grandfather f...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Eleven individuals, including nine migrant workers from Thailand, were arrested Sunday after New Taipei police raided a Thai restaurant in Shulin District that was used as a clandestine gambling den, the Shulin Precinct reported on T...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) on Tuesday announced the cancellation of a concert by Russian-born opera star Anna Netrebko this weekend amid criticism of the singer's position on Russia's war in Ukraine....

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen () attended an event in Tainan on Tuesday to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the 228 Incident, a civil uprising in 1947 that led to a bloody government crackdown, vowing that the government...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported 10,120 new cases of COVID-19 and 40 deaths from the disease on Tuesday....

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) The daughter of late Taiwanese democracy advocate Nylon Cheng () on Tuesday urged Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an () to face his family's alleged dark history....

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) The Taipei Fubon Braves, the back-to-back P. LEAGUE+ (PLG) defending champion, are set to compete in the East Asia Super League's Champions Week that opens Wednesday in Japan against teams from South Korea and Japan in the group ...

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) A senior U.S. defense official and the U.S. Army's commanding officer in the Pacific have downplayed the possibility of China imminently attempting to invade Taiwan, citing the risks and complexity of such an operation....

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Most parts of Taiwan are expected to see warm and sunny weather on Tuesday and Wednesday before seasonal winds begin affecting the island again, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) has forecast....

Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Tuesday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Guishan Island off the coast of Yilan County will again allow tourists starting in March, the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration said Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taipei ranked as the city with the highest dependency ratio in Taiwan in 2022, reflecting the city's ageing population, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of the Interior (MOI)....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taichung Suns star shooter Rayvonte Rice put up 35 points against the TaiwanBeer HeroBears in the T1 LEAGUE on Monday but it was not enough as the Suns fell to the visitors 97-91....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) on Monday said it expects some issues relating to the reported shortage of 88 drugs around the country to be partially resolved in around March....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taiwan has taken delivery of 50,000 imported breeder chickens as part of efforts to import 300,000 such chickens this year and address a nationwide egg shortage, a Council of Agriculture (COA) official said Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) An American naval aircraft on Monday made a rare transit through the Taiwan Strait, a flight the United States Navy said showed Washington's...

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Investor confidence in the local economy improved in February with sentiment toward the equity market also growing, according to Cathay Financial Holding Co....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Koo Kwang-ming (), an advisor to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidents and founder of the pro-independence Taiwan New Constitution Foundation, has died at the age of 97....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taiwan-based contract electronics maker Pegatron Corp. teamed up with Microsoft Taiwan to demonstrate on Monday a jointly developed 5G application used to build smart supply chains at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 currently un...

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Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Former NBA and PBA forward Chris McCullough will return to Taiwan's P. LEAGUE to play for the Formosa Taishin Dreamers, the Taichung-based club announced Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taiwan on Monday had its first day with fewer than 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in over 300 days, reporting 7,745 new infections and 44 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) A member of Taiwan's Marine Corps was arrested by police in Pingtung Saturday for allegedly trying to sell a pistol and 20 bullets to an undercover officer for NT$65,000 (US$2,114)....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Taiwanese women's doubles tennis player Wu Fang-hsien () and Chinese partner Wang Xinyu () fell at the final hurdle of the Merida Open Akron in Mexico after losing 6-0, 7-5 to Diane Parry and Caty McNally Sunday....

Washington, Feb. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's top envoy to the United States Hsiao Bi-khim () has held talks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on potential cooperation with the state's electric vehicle and bourbon industries....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) Temperatures will rise to above 20 degrees Celsius across much of Taiwan on Monday as a cold air mass weakens, giving way to gradually warmer weather and mostly clear skies through the middle of the week, forecasters said....

Taipei, Feb. 27 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Monday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) A dogfight between the Taoyuan Pauian Pilots and the Taipei Fubon Braves came down to the wire in Taoyuan on Sunday before the Pilots edged the back-to-back P.LEAGUE+ (PLG) defending champion 83-80 and snapped their eight-game winnin...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) The government is strictly controlling the water supply from reservoirs in southern Taiwan after low rainfall in 2022 in the region caused its worst drought in 30 years, which might result in a water shortage in the near future, the ...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) With the number of workers over the age of 60 growing significantly in Taiwan, a development expert has called for government measures to prevent age discrimination in the workplace and foster workplace environments that are friendly...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) has proposed revisions to existing laws that would set or increase penalties for spreading misinformation and failing to comply with mobilization or requisition orders during wartime....

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) New Taipei recorded a low of 9 degrees Celsius in the early hours on Sunday, while temperatures in northern Taiwan are still likely to fall below 10 degrees before a cold air mass weakens on Monday, according to the Central Weather B...

Tsai Kun-lin's () life was upended in 1950. Working overtime as a civil servant, he was suddenly taken to a jail where he was wired up to a machine and electrocuted until he gave up the names of so-called...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) The family of a girl who fell into a coma and died after getting a second Pfizer-BNT (BNT) COVID-19 vaccine dose will receive NT$3.5 million (US$114,111) after she was named on the list of relief fund recipients who suffered adverse ...

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Taiwan on Sunday reported 13,090 new cases of COVID-19 and 46 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's Hsu Yu-hsiou () and his Korean partner Yunseong Chung took the men's doubles title on Saturday at the 2023 Bengaluru Open, rallying to beat Anirudh Chandrasekar and N Vijay Sundar Prashanth of India....

Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) Taiwanese sisters Latisha Chan ( ) and Chan Hao-ching () finished second in the women's doubles at the Dubai Tennis Championships after losing to Russians Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova 4-6, 7-6(4), 1-10 in the final...

Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) Taipei will offer free sightseeing bus tickets to select non-group tourists to try to entice more tourists to visit at a time when Taiwan has reopened its borders to foreign arrivals, the city's Department of Information and Tour...

Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) Taiwanese sisters Latisha Chan ( ) and Chan Hao-ching () reached the women's doubles final at the Dubai Tennis Championships after overcoming third seeds Dutch-American duo Demi Schuurs and Desirae Krawczyk in a three-setter on F...

Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) issued cold surge advisories on Saturday for nine cities and counties as a continental cold air mass caused the temperature to plunge to 10.1 degrees Celsius in New Taipei's Fuguijiao (Cape Fugui)...

Taipei, Feb. 25 (CNA) Veteran Taiwanese paddler Huang Yi-hua () finished second at the WTT Feeder Dsseldorf II 2023 in Germany after succumbing to 16-year-old Qin Yuxuan () in straight games in the women's singles final....

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Various parts of Taiwan's freeway network will face high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) restrictions to regulate traffic over the upcoming four-day weekend, the Freeway Bureau said Friday....

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Several foreign representative offices in Taiwan expressed solidarity with Ukraine with film screenings on Friday, marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Premier Chen Chien-jen () gave his first policy address since taking office on Jan. 31 at the Legislative Yuan Friday outlining the administrative goals of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government....

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) The T1 LEAGUE has revised the penalties it handed down against three players and one executive with the Taoyuan Leopards who were involved in a brawl that broke out with the TaiwanBeer HeroBears in a game in Taipei on Feb. 19....

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) Business sentiment in Taiwan's manufacturing sector increased for the third consecutive month in January on the back of China's economic recovery and the easing of inventory adjustments by customers, the Taiwan Institute of E...