TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said Wednesday that China ordered Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat in what is seen as an increasing Chinese attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory. Taiwan’s coast guard also repeated its call for the release of the boat and its crew members who […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said the Chinese coast guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat Tuesday before steering it to a port in mainland China, and demanded that Beijing release the vessel. The Dajinman 88 was intercepted by two Chinese vessels Tuesday evening near the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China’s coast […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Most Taiwanese can visit China with no need to worry and can come “in high spirits”, the Chinese government said, condemning Taiwan for warning its citizens not to go following a threat from Beijing to execute “diehard” separatists. Taiwan’s government raised its travel warning for China this week, telling people not to […]
Credit: TSMC Taiwanese companies, led by TSMC, are the world’s foremost manufacturers of logic chips. Taiwan’s semiconductor industry will maintain that lead until at least 2032, according to Yang Ruei-Lin, Director of the Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), reports TechNews.tw. The Semiconductor Industry Association has made similar predictions. […]
HONG KONG (AP) — A suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has stepped up its targeting of Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as government, education, technology and diplomacy, according to cybersecurity intelligence company Recorded Future. In recent years, relations between China and Taiwan, a self-governed island across the Taiwan Strait that Beijing claims as […]
HONG KONG (AP) — A suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has stepped up its targeting of Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as government, education, technology and diplomacy, according to cybersecurity intelligence company Recorded Future. In recent years, relations between China and Taiwan, a self-governed island across the Taiwan Strait that Beijing claims as […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Chinese coast guard personnel briefly boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat near Taiwan-controlled islands next to China’s coast on Monday, the government in Taipei said, in an escalation of tensions after China said it would carry out regular patrols. China announced on Sunday that its coast guard would strengthen law enforcement activity around […]
Two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by Taiwan’s coastguard off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, the coastguard has said. The deaths are unusual despite the level of Chinese activity in the waters near Kinmen, which is closer to China than it is to Taiwan’s main island. China claims all of Taiwan as […]
Taiwan has become the biggest exporter of metalworking equipment to Russia during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a new joint investigation by the Russian independent media The Insider and Taiwanese The Reporter, published on Jan. 27, revealed. The investigation brings to light the latest instance of Russia’s successful effort to circumvent sanctions, importing tech and […]
The ruling party candidate is leading the race for the Taiwanese presidency with half of the votes counted, according to local media reports. Polls closed on Saturday in Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary election that will chart the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy’s relations with China over the next four years. At stake is the peace […]
Polls have closed after Taiwanese cast their votes for a new president and legislature in an election that could chart the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy’s relations with China over the next four years. At stake is the peace and stability of the island 100 miles off the coast of China that Beijing claims as […]
As Jean Tsao prepared a feast with her son on Thanksgiving, her phone kept pinging. She and many other Taiwanese Americans were glued to what some have described as a “soap opera” of a presidential election across the Pacific. That day in Taiwan, after an attempt to unify the opposition parties had collapsed, the candidates […]