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U.S. denies China policy shift after Taiwanese leader gives speech in LA
President Donald Trump's administration denied Tuesday any change to its "One-China" policy after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen made a political speech in the U.S., the first time in 15 years a Taiwanese leader has done so. Beijing said that it had lodged an official protest ...
A bronze statue symbolizing women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military was unveiled at a ceremony in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan on Tuesday, marking the first installation of such a memorial in the country. Although the statue could cast ...
Struggling furniture retailer Otsuka Kagu Ltd. is negotiating a tie-up with Taiwan's Abico Group in hopes of achieving a turnaround, informed sources have said. Otsuka Kagu aims to obtain financial and business assistance from a number of Taiwanese companies through the Abico Group's powerful network, ...
The Chinese military has kicked off "major" exercises in the Yellow Sea ahead of Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen's planned departure Sunday for Paraguay, the only Taiwanese ally in South America, and the tiny Central American country of Belize. China's Defense Ministry said late Friday that ...
Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen seeks $11 billion defence budget as China threat grows
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said Monday she is seeking to ramp up spending on the armed forces, as relations with China deteriorate. Her proposal to increase the 2019 defence budget by 5.6 percent to 346 billion New Taiwan dollars ($11.3 billion) will go before parliament ...
U.S., Japan in hunt for title at Women's Softball World Championship
Alison Aguilar and Delaney Spaulding drove in three runs each as the United States beat Taiwan 7-0 Saturday to improve to 2-0 in Group A at the Women's Softball World Championship, a qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Aguilar hit a bases-loaded double in a ...
Payment due: Pacific islands in the red as debts to China mount
Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation's central business and government districts. Out of the rubble, the government hatched a plan to rebuild the city, including constructing a new cruise ship wharf ...
Fukushima 'ambassadors' visit Taiwan school to offer thanks for 3/11 aid
Three students from Fukushima Prefecture visited a junior high school in Taipei to offer thanks for Taiwan's reconstruction support after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. The three junior high and high school students, acting as "reconstruction ambassadors," called on the Taiwanese students ...
Beijing says four U.S. airlines missed deadline to list Taiwan as part of China on websites
Chinese regulators appear to have rejected a possible attempt by U.S. airlines at a compromise over Beijing's demand to call self-ruled Taiwan a part of China, an order Washington opposed. The communist mainland's latest effort to use China's growing economic clout to isolate Taiwan's democratically ...
U.S. airlines to yield to Beijing's demands, will refer to 'China Taiwan'
U.S. airlines plan to comply with a Chinese government demand that they revise their website identifications of Taiwan to reflect China's claim on the island territory, said a person familiar with the discussions. The U.S. carriers affected by the mandate — American Airlines Group Inc., ...
Taiwan says it will stop employing North Korean workers on its fishing boats in compliance with U.N. sanctions on such contracts. The foreign ministry said in a notice Tuesday that the last three North Koreans working on Taiwanese vessels would be put to shore at ...
Taiwan fruit farmer raises funds for Japan flood victims
A Taiwanese farmer held a two-day dragon fruit sale in Taipei over the weekend to raise money for victims of the floods and landslide in western Japan. Lin Ting-tsai, 65, said he harvested 1,380 kg of red dragon fruit at his farm in Yilan County ...
