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Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) A survey of Taiwanese adults aged 50-64 has found that they think they will need savings of NT$8.37 million (US$275,245) on average to retire, or NT$1.12 million more than they would be likely to receive from government-run retiremen...

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) Basketball Hall of Famer Allen Iverson will visit Taiwan during the summer, the 2001 NBA MVP said in a video posted on sports promoter Evolution Sports social media platform Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) Taiwan shares closed up 11.77 points, or 0.08 percent, at 15,563 Tuesday on turnover of NT$221.27 billion (US$7.28 billion)....

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has tightened its control of organotin compounds, banning the use of the chemicals in the production of pesticides after violations that took place due to loopholes in the old rule....

Taoyuan, Feb. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's Army held a media event Tuesday to showcase its new shooting training program that puts more of an emphasis on simulating real battlefield conditions so that soldiers are better prepared for real combat environments....

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) Representatives of eight of Taiwan's largest industrial trade associations expressed concerns over potential electricity or labor shortages affecting the economy in a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen () on Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) The U.S. dollar was traded at NT$30.375 at 10 a.m. Tuesday on the Taipei Foreign Exchange, up NT$0.004 from the previous close....

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Tuesday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened down 15.59 points at 15,535.64 Tuesday on turnover of NT$1.92 billion (US$63.12 million)....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Orders to Taiwan-based exporters dropped for a fifth consecutive month in January amid continuing sluggish demand in global consumer markets, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Taiwan has sought assistance from Palau, the Philippines and other countries to locate a fishing boat operating in the western Pacific Ocean that the owner has been unable to contact since early Saturday, the Fisheries Agency said in...

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Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) A top official with the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), who recently concluded a visit to China, said Monday that Taiwan's 2024 presidential election was an internal affair and was not discussed with Chinese officials on the trip....

Taoyuan, Feb. 20 (CNA) Some Hong Kong citizens who arrived in Taiwan Monday as the first independent travelers to visit the country in three years identified Taiwanese night markets and popular eateries as what they missed the most since the imposition of...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen () on Monday took to Facebook to celebrate the first day of the relaxed indoor face mask mandate which further eases Taiwan's COVID-19 policies as the nation seeks to return to pre-COVID normalcy....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The world's first traditional Chinese-friendly chatbot that can replicate Chat GPT functions in Chinese while serving as a browser was released Monday for Taiwanese users to test, software company MixerBox announced....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Kaohsiung Aquas' T1 LEAGUE champion coach Brendan Joyce said he is grateful to be part of the league's first-ever All-Star Game after being asked to coach one of the teams, which also includes Dwight Howard as one of the play...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The T1 LEAGUE has announced several suspensions and fines for a melee late in the game between the Taoyuan Leopards and the TaiwanBeer HeroBears in Taipei on Sunday that led to the ejections of a coach, a team executive and 10 player...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Monday expressed gratitude toward United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his reiteration of support for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait during his Saturday...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival wrapped up in Taipei on Sunday after drawing a record of over 12 million visitors in one of Taiwan's first large-scale international events since it began easing COVID-19 restrictions....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) One person died and three were injured on Monday morning when a semi-trailer truck crashed into six other vehicles in the northbound lanes of National Freeway No. 3 in Hsinchu's Xiangshan District, authorities said....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Sixty-five percent of the cellphone numbers being used in Taiwan have been hacked and put on sale, the second highest in Asia, according to an annual fraud report released Monday by Gogolook, the Taiwan-based developer of call-filter...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced Monday that Taiwan will no longer distribute rapid antigen test kits for COVID-19 to overseas arrivals and close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients starting March 1....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Migrants rights groups rallied outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei on Monday to demand the government overturn what they called discriminatory obstacles faced by workers who vacation in their home countries....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The U.S. dollar fell against the Taiwan dollar Monday, shedding NT$0.039 to close at NT$30.371....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Taiwan reported 12,060 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 44 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Incumbent deputy chief aide-de-camp to President Tsai Ing-wen (), Major General Lee Ching-jan (), has been tapped as Tsai's new chief aide-de-camp, a military source told CNA on Monday....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Taiwan shares closed up 71.53 points, or 0.46 percent, at 15,551.23 Monday on turnover of NT$208.37 billion (US$6.86 billion)....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) A cold front that arrived in Taiwan overnight will keep temperatures in the mid-teens in northern Taiwan on Monday, while atmospheric pollutants carried by the system caused air quality to drop to unhealthy levels in parts of the sou...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Monday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The U.S. dollar was traded at NT$30.393 at 10 a.m. Monday on the Taipei Foreign Exchange, down NT$0.017 from the previous close....

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened down 27.69 points at 15,452.01 Monday on turnover of NT$2.41 billion (US$79.26 million)....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) The T1 League's Taoyuan Leopards notched up a first-ever three-game winning streak Sunday in a tempestuous 120-108 triumph over the TaiwanBeer HeroBears marred a bench-clearing brawl and 11 ejections....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Starting Monday, people in Taiwan will no longer be required to wear face masks in most indoor settings as part of the latest easing of COVID-19 regulations announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Two waves of cold air are expected to hit Taiwan over the next seven days, with lows of 13 degrees Celsius forecast for much of the island, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Sunday....

Kaohsiung Feb. 19 (CNA) The Kaohsiung City Government on Sunday announced that ships from Hong Kong will be allowed to dock at the southern port city's cruise terminal from April....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Sunday protested remarks from Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi () the previous day that Taiwan has been a part of China...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Eight hotels and two spas in Taiwan were among the winners selected by this year's Forbes Travel Guide Star Awards, with the Mandarin Oriental in Taipei receiving a five-star rating for the seventh consecutive year....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Poor air quality was recorded in parts of southern Taiwan and the offshore Kinmen County early Sunday, as an arriving cold front brought high concentrations of pollutants from China, according to the Environmental Protection Administ...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) The guard on an armored cash transport car was arrested in Taichung late Saturday after he allegedly stole about NT$2 million (US$66,249) from the vehicle and fled with the cash, police said....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Taiwan reported 15,877 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and 68 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC)....

San Francisco, Feb. 18 (CNA) American eighth grader Kayla Tenney Villalobos, who took the queen bee title at a nail-biting spelling competition in Idaho on Feb. 11, gained the winning edge when she correctly spelled the word...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) A customer of Chunghwa Telecom Co. has been ordered to pay the company NT$17 million (US$559,21) in damages, after he was sued for reselling 3,525 cellphones he had obtained under Chunghwa's preferential contracts, the New Taipei...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) The T1 LEAGUE defending champion Kaohsiung Aquas suffered a 78-74 road game upset against the TaiwanBeer HeroBears in Taipei on Saturday, picking up their third consecutive loss after back-to-back defeats at home last weekend....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday are as follows:...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) A bipartisan American congressional delegation arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a five-day visit, during which they will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen () and other senior government officials, according to the Ministry of Foreign A...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Taiwan's military on Saturday night made public a photograph of the wreckage of a suspected Chinese weather balloon found on one of its offshore frontline islets near China on Thursday, saying it had concluded the device did not ...

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Two soldiers were arrested in Taichung Friday, after an illegal gun and bullets were found in their possession during a police search, according to the Taipei City Police Department's Shilin Precinct....

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Yilan County, eastern Taiwan at 7:32 a.m. Sunday, nearly eight hours after a magnitude 5.0 quake rocked Nantou County in central Taiwan, according to the Central Weather Bureau....