Asia Pacific Jul 26, 2021

Medics see complacency behind Taiwan's unusually deadly COVID-19 wave

The self-ruled island once went 200 days without a case in the community, but wasn't prepare for what came next.

Asia Pacific Jul 21, 2021

Taiwan angers China with first Europe office using its name

Lithuania has backed Taiwan before, donating COVID-19 vaccines and supporting participation in the World Health Assembly.

Asia Pacific / Politics Nov 19, 2020

Taiwan shuts pro-China TV channel in battle over press freedom

Taiwan’s broadcast regulator has ordered the closure of one of the island’s most ardently pro-China cable news networks following a monthslong battle over journalistic standards and freedom of the press. The National Communications Commission will not renew the broadcast license of Chung T’ien News, its ...

Asia Pacific Nov 13, 2020

Trump’s Taiwan and Hong Kong support poses early test for Biden

Biden faces a tough choice on China: Restore the status quo and face accusations of weakness, or continue Trump’s provocations and risk undercutting cooperation with Beijing.

Asia Pacific Oct 29, 2020

Record 200 days with no local coronavirus cases makes Taiwan envy of world

Taiwan holds the world’s best virus record by far and reached the new landmark on Thursday, even as the pathogen explodes anew in Europe and the U.S.

Business Jan 13, 2020

Tsai's election victory set to bolster Taiwan's buoyant markets

A winning run for Taiwan's financial markets is set to be reinforced by Saturday's landslide election victory for President Tsai Ing-wen. That's the view of market watchers and analysts, with the result seen helping extend what has been a positive period of investor sentiment toward ...

Asia Pacific / Politics | FOCUS Sep 11, 2019

Hong Kong unrest gives Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen a timely boost

Heading into 2019, Tsai Ing-wen looked at risk of becoming Taiwan's first one-term president. Then came the unrest in Hong Kong. Tsai had clawed back some ground in opinion polls before protesters started taking to the streets of Hong Kong in the hundreds of thousands ...

Business / Corporate | FOCUS May 19, 2019

Royalty feud threatens to tear apart FamilyMart's profitable joint venture in China

FamilyMart, the most successful Japanese convenience store chain in China, is embroiled in a royalty payments fight between its Japanese and Chinese joint-venture partners that could change how much money each side makes or scuttle the partnership entirely. FamilyMart UNY Holdings Co. is suing to ...

Business / Corporate Oct 3, 2017

Founder of TSMC, Apple's top chip supplier, to hand over reins in June

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder and Chairman Morris Chang will retire next June, handing the helm of the world's largest producer of made-to-order microchips to the company's two co-chief executives. Breaking with tradition, Chang used his retirement announcement to issue a 2017 revenue forecast that ...