A COVID-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel at the Novotel Taoyuan International Airport hotel and among China Airlines pilots ends two-and-a-half months in which Taiwan saw no cases of domestic transmission of COVID-19...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has doubled down on comments emphasizing that the Taiwan People’s Party, which he is party chair of, aspires to move beyond the independence versus unification politics that characterize contestation between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps...
A fake agreement between the Taiwanese and Japanese governments was circulated on social media last week, claiming that the Taiwanese government had agreed to take on wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The incident led to a response from the Presidential Office and has led to warnings that Chinese disinformation efforts directed at Taiwan could be growing more sophisticated...
25 Chinese planes entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone yesterday. This marks the largest incursion by Chinese planes into airspace near Taiwan to date, after a year which has seen an increase in the occurrence of Chinese flybys to a nearly daily basis during some months...
Surangel Whipps Jr., the president of Palau, is currently visiting Taiwan as part of a diplomatic delegation intended to mark the start of a “travel bubble” between Taiwan and Palau...
Concerns that Taiwan could face an imminent Chinese invasion have been stoked by recent comments by Admiral Philip Davidson and Admiral John Aquilino, the outgoing and incoming heads of the US Indo Pacific Command respectively...
Taiwan began COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, with 44,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine distributed to 57 hospitals. Vaccination begins shortly after the 1,000th confirmed case of COVID-19 in Taiwan. Taiwan received its first batch of vaccines, 116,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, earlier this month....
KMT legislator Alex Fai accused Facebook of interfering in Taiwanese politics after the Facebook account of Pan Chong-cheng, the convenor of the current referendum on the construction of a liquified gas terminal off the coast of Datan District, Taoyuan, was briefly suspended from the social media website...