A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out an operation near the Chinese man-made islands in the South China Sea an effort to challenge China's territorial claims in the heavily trafficked international waters, Navy officials said.
Speaking with U.S. news agencies, the …
Read MoreTaipei--Legislative Yuan Speaker Su Jia-chyuan will lead a delegation of lawmakers to Japan in September to attend the annual meeting of the Asian-Pacific Parliamentarians' Union (APPU) and promote parliamentary diplomacy.
The delegation will visit Japan from Sept. 17 to 20 …
Read MoreTaipei--Shares in Taiwan closed at a 27-year high on Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average's latest record high at the end of last week gave investors confidence to push prices higher, dealers said.
Interest focused on large-cap high-tech stocks, …
Read MoreTaipei--A street parade that is part of the 2017 Luodong Arts Festival Fringe will now be held on Aug. 5 after it was postponed last weekend due to a typhoon, the organizers said Friday.
Some 60 performing groups from government …
Read MoreMILWAUKEE � At least one other state offered Foxconn more than the $3 billion incentives package Wisconsin used to lure a plant that will be the electronics giant's first in the U.S., Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday.
Walker said "at …
Read MorePHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA � Police in Cambodia have deported to China 17 telephone fraud suspects, among hundreds of alleged scam artists who have been caught and expelled in recent years.
The 17 were flown out Wednesday from the airport in …
Read MoreVice President Chen Chien-jen says Taiwan is doing its part to combat the global problem of human trafficking. Chen was speaking Tuesday at the start of a two-day international workshop on fighting human trafficking. The event has been organized by …
Read MoreTAIPEI � Plans in the Philippines to reopen a tract of the disputed South China Sea for oil and gas exploration are likely to complicate the foreign policy of Manila's new friend Beijing, which claims the same waters, and adds …
Read MoreTAIPEI � Plans in the Philippines to reopen a tract of the disputed South China Sea for oil and gas exploration are likely to complicate the foreign policy of Manila's new friend Beijing, which claims the same waters, and adds …
Read MoreA one-day cycling race will be staged Sept. 17 in central Taiwan's Taichung City as part of the L'Etape by Le Tour de France, a series of public competitions designed to replicate the Tour de France experience, according to French …
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