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Anonymous posts Taiwan flag on UN site

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — "Anonymous" hacked into a U.N. website to call for calm in the Guyana-Venezuela crisis and uploaded Taiwan's flag, emblem, and photos of famous leaders. ...

Art teacher sentenced to 8 years for molesting 9 girls in south Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An art teacher has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting nine girls a total of 308 times. Chen Chin-ching (陳進清) is an art studio teacher in Tainan City,...

Taiwanese professor killed in UNLV shooting

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Taiwanese professor was among three victims who were killed in a mass shooting that took place at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on Wednesday (Dec. 6). Th...

Delta to launch 1st-ever direct flights to Taiwan in 2024

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Delta announced that it is planning on offering direct flights to Taiwan for the first time, starting with a route between Seattle and Taipei that is slated to launch in t...

Chinese balloon crosses Taiwan Strait median line

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced that a People's Liberation Army (PLA) balloon was detected crossing the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday (Dec. 7)...

Family of 4 trapped in Taipei Dome stairwell for 20 minutes

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A family of four became trapped for 20 minutes inside a basement stairwell of the Taipei Dome after watching a baseball game on Wednesday (Dec. 6). On Thursday morning ...

Japan's Don Don Donki opens biggest store in Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The new Don Don Donki store, part of the largest Japanese discount chain Don Quijote, officially opened in Kaohsiung City on Thursday (Dec. 7). At 900 pings (one ping e...

More Japanese than Taiwanese consider China major threat

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A new poll by Pew Research Center showed that a higher percentage of Japanese consider China a major threat, while in Taiwan, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters...

Taiwan's TSMC, Arizona unions reach deal after months-long dispute

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and an Arizona labor union council have reached an agreement to resolve ongoing labor disputes that have plagued TSMC'...

1st snow of winter falls on Taiwan's Xueshan

Update: 12/07/2023 12:00 p.m. Rangers from the Shei-Pa National Park Headquarters reported that as of 6 a.m. on Thursday (Dec. 7), 10 cm of snow had fallen on Xueshan Cirque No. 1, per UDN. TAIP...

Taiwan president ranked 30th most powerful woman in world

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has dropped to 30th on Forbes' annual World's 100 Most Powerful Women list for 2023. The results were announced Tuesday (Dec...

Taiwan rated only 'open' Asian country for 5th year running

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — For the fifth year in a row, Taiwan is the only country in Asia with an open civic space, according to a report by the human rights organization Civicus. In its report ...

Taiwan People's Party VP fails to report assets of Belgian baron husband

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan People's Party (TPP) vice presidential candidate Cynthia Wu (吳欣盈) is suspected of failing to declare the property of her foreign spouse, a Belgian baron. Wu ...

US P-8A sub-hunter patrols over Taiwan Strait

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A U.S. submarine hunting aircraft flew over the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday (Dec. 6), according to the Ministry of National Defense (MND). The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fl...

Soft hail falls on Taiwan's mountains, snow possible

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Soft hail and frost were spotted on Taiwan's high mountains on Wednesday morning (Dec. 6), and there is a possibility of snow at higher elevations. According to the...