Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide.
The 86-year-old's body was found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report. Emergency services said she took her (...)
Heavy rains and high winds lashed Taiwan on Thursday as the largest storm to hit the island in nearly three decades made landfall along its southeast coast, killing at least one person and injuring dozens.
Typhoon Kong-rey packed winds approaching (...)
Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, has made landfall on the island's eastern coast.
Schools and workplaces across Taiwan were closed on Thursday and supermarkets were stripped bare, as millions of (...)
Authorities in Taiwan are warning residents along its eastern coast to brace for the impacts Super Typhoon Kong-rey, which has rapidly intensified as it barrels towards the island after bashing the Philippines.
Kong-Rey, moving northwest over the (...)
President William Lai has pledged to uphold Taiwan's self-governing status in his most high-profile public address since taking office earlier this year.
In a thinly veiled reference to China's claim over the island, Lai said he would "uphold the (...)
Nine people have died in a fire at a hospital in southern Taiwan, according to local media.
The fire struck the Pingtung county hospital at around 09:40 local time (01:00 GMT) - just as Typhoon Krathon made landfall to the west, in neighboring (...)
The race to find the maker of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon has taken an unexpected turn - towards a Taiwanese company few had heard of until this morning.
At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured in Tuesday's explosions (...)
A powerful typhoon made landfall in northeastern Taiwan early on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds of others as authorities closed financial markets, schools and offices.
Conditions in Taiwan worsened as Typhoon Gaemi (...)
Taiwan is bracing for the arrival of powerful Typhoon Gaemi which is expected to make landfall on the island's North East coast in the next few hours.
The storm, the first typhoon of the season to affect the island, has led to the cancellation of (...)
China's coast guard detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel and its five-member crew near the mainland's southeast coast on Tuesday night, according to Taiwan authorities, in the latest flare-up of tensions in waters around a group of frontline islands (...)
Tens of thousands of supporters of Taiwan's ruling party are expected to gather outside parliament on Friday after it pushed ahead with a hugely controversial "contempt of parliament" bill.
The opposition Kuomintang party (KMT) says the new law is (...)
US lawmakers vowed to bolster Taiwan's deterrence against China on Monday during a bipartisan congressional visit to the self-governing democracy just days after Beijing surrounded the island with massive military exercises.
Last week's drills were (...)
China has launched two days of large-scale military drills surrounding Taiwan in what it called "punishment" for so-called "separatist acts," days after the self-ruling island swore in a new democratically elected leader who called on Beijing to (...)
A knife-wielding man who attacked people on a train car in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung early Tuesday was subdued by passengers, according to authorities.
The attack came on the tenth anniversary of a deadly knife rampage on Taipei's metro (...)
Lai Ching-te called on Beijing to cease its intimidation of Taiwan as he was sworn in as president Monday, marking the start of a historic third consecutive term for the island's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has championed (...)
Rescue teams Thursday were trying to reach more than 600 people in eastern Taiwan following the strongest earthquake to hit the island in decades, as the number of people injured passed 1,000.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the island a day after (...)
Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800 others.
The powerful 7.4 magnitude (...)
Taiwan's strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, damaging buildings and causing the deaths of four people.
Taiwan's national fire agency said four people died in Hualien County. Hualien (...)
Two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coastguard off Taiwan's northernmost Kinmen archipelago.
Taipei said the fishing boat trespassed into Taiwanese waters on Wednesday.
The four fishermen on board resisted an (...)
Taiwan has protested against China's "unilateral" adjustment of civil aviation flight routes that could result in civilian aircraft flying closer to the sensitive Taiwan Strait median line, adding pressure on Taipei in its aviation safety and aerial (...)
Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island's "democratic achievements."
The Pacific Island nation of Nauru on Monday (...)
Nauru has severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China, just days after Taiwanese voters elected a new president.
Nauru's government said it would "no longer recognize [Taiwan] as a separate country but rather as an inalienable part of (...)
China has accused the US of sending "a gravely wrong signal" to those pushing for Taiwan's independence after Saturday's election result.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent Taiwanese president-elect William Lai a message of congratulations (...)
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party pulled off a historic third consecutive presidential victory on Saturday as voters shrugged off warnings by China that their re-election would increase the risk of conflict.
Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's current (...)
Ziwei can still remember the months she spent huddling alone in a tiny shoebox apartment in Taipei.
There was no window in the 10-sq-m studio, just a small vent near the ceiling. It perpetually stank of sewage, even after she stuffed her shower (...)
