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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
As retired Taiwanese admiral Wu looks back on his old days, he couldn't be prouder of his decades-long service sailing around the world on a guided-missile frigate.
He once led hundreds of Taiwanese naval officers on missions thousands of miles away (...)
Taiwan issued an islandwide air raid alert after a Chinese satellite flew over its southern airspace days before a crucial presidential election.
Mobile phone users across the self-ruled island received a message warning them to "be aware for your (...)
When US President Joe Biden recently signed off on a $80m (£64.6m) grant to Taiwan for the purchase of American military equipment, China said it "deplores and opposes" what Washington had done.
To the casual observer it didn't appear a steep sum. (...)
A retired Taiwan air force colonel has been jailed 20 years for running a military spy ring for China.
Liu Sheng-shu was convicted of recruiting other active-duty officers to transmit military secrets to Beijing.
Five other officers -- from the navy (...)
Taiwan's defense ministry has urged Beijing to stop its "persistent military harassment," after it detected more than 100 Chinese warplanes close to the island in a 24-hour span between Sunday and Monday.
The number of warplanes recorded posed (...)
At least 44 people were injured and tens of thousands of homes were left without power as Typhoon Haikui made its way across Taiwan, authorities said.
The storm made landfall along the southeastern coastal township of Donghe at about 3:40 p.m. local (...)
More than 40 Chinese warplanes flew over Taiwan's air defense zone on Saturday, as part of military drills that Taiwan called "irrational and provocative".
About 26 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's Ministry of (...)
She was an aspiring actress in Taiwan and her alleged attacker was a director. In shock and fearing a backlash, she says she did not report the alleged assault to the police at the time - although she later confided in friends.
One of them has (...)
A record 16 Chinese warships were spotted in waters around Taiwan in a 24-hour period late last week, the island's Defense Ministry reported, in what analysts said was the latest sign of an intimidation campaign against Taipei by China's ruling (...)
Investigations into the drugging of preschool children in Taiwan have sparked widespread alarm on the island.
Teachers at a kindergarten in New Taipei City have been accused of sedating students with cough syrups containing drugs like phenobarbital (...)
iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations.
In an exclusive interview, chairman and boss Young Liu told the BBC what the future may hold (...)
Taiwan has charged two former state officials with violating the national security law by organizing meetings between former senior military officers and Chinese intelligence personnel.
Those encounters allegedly allowed the Chinese to "contact and (...)
Taiwan will extend mandatory military service from four months to one year, President Tsai Ing-wen has said.
The decision comes amid growing tensions with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory.
Speaking at a press conference on (...)
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as head of the governing Democratic Progressive Party after its poor showing in local elections.
The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won several major races on Saturday, including in the capital Taipei.
The (...)
Millions in Taiwan are heading to the polls as the island's local midterm elections kicked off on Saturday.
Local council and city mayors are elected in the polls, which are held every four years.
But these elections are also drawing global (...)