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Young woman dies in paragliding accident in east Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A 27-year-old woman surnamed Hsiao (蕭) died while paragliding in Hualien on Saturday (Nov. 18) due to an equipment malfunction. The woman had traveled with her boyfrie...

Consumers’ Foundation files class action suit against Costco Taiwan

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Consumers’ Foundation held a press conference on Tuesday (Oct. 31) announcing a class action suit on behalf of 135 citizens affected by frozen berries tainted wi...

Live updates | Titan's catastrophic implosion likely killed 5 occupants instantly, experts say

Follow along for live updates on the submersible that imploded deep in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all five people aboard during a voyage down to the Titanic shipwreck. ___ ...

Air India plane flying to San Francisco lands in Russia's Siberia after engine problem

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India plane flying from New Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to Russia after it developed an engine problem, the airline said Wednesday. The plane, a Boeing 77...

IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned discharge of Fukushima nuclear plant water

TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the w...

South Korea experts say Japan carefully answered questions on plan to release radioactive water

TOKYO (AP) — The head of a South Korean team of experts said Wednesday they saw all of the facilities they had requested to visit at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and Japanese offici...

South Korean experts visit Fukushima nuclear plant before release of treated water into sea

TOKYO (AP) — A team of South Korean government experts began a two-day tour of Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday to examine a contentious plan to release treated but sti...

Taipei takeout sushi seen glowing in dark

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A customer who ordered takeout sushi in Taipei last week inadvertently discovered that parts of the meal glowed in the dark. A female user of the Facebook group Breakin...

Strong quake in central Japan; 1 dead, more than 20 injured

TOKYO (AP) — A strong, shallow earthquake hit central Japan on Friday afternoon, killing at least one person and injuring more than 20 others and disrupting plans for holidaymakers. The ...

Air Force unit in document leaks case loses intel mission

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mis...

German government rejects new call to delay nuclear shutdown

BONN, Germany (AP) — The German government dismissed calls Wednesday for a last-minute delay in shutting down the country's last three nuclear power plants this weekend. Opposition poli...

Jet pitched wildly, killing 1, amid cockpit warnings: NTSB

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A business jet flying over New England violently pitched upward then downward, fatally injuring a passenger, after pilots responding to automated cockpit warnings switched off a...

Workers dig by layers in search for 47 missing at China mine

ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after a collapse at an open-pit mine in northern China have had to change their excavation methods to avoid causing more lan...

Workers dig by layers in search for 47 missing at China mine

ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after a collapse at an open-pit mine in northern China have had to change their excavation methods to avoid causing more landslide...

Taipei MRT bomb threat comes with demand Taiwan reject Swiss delegation

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taoyuan Metro Corporation received an anonymous bomb threat on Friday (Feb. 3) along with a demand that Taiwan’s authorities refuse to meet the Swiss delegation of l...