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Peruvian police liberate 44 individuals, mostly Malaysians, from a Taiwanese organized crime group's extortion scheme in La Molina, Lima. Concurrently, six Taiwanese and two Peruvians are arrested, and the victims, who were deceived with job offers and trafficked via Amsterdam, Netherlands, will be extradited to Malaysia following an investigative process.
2023-10-9

One passenger is killed and ten others are injured when a metro train collides with a fallen tower crane in Taichung, Taiwan.
2023-05-10

Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China.
2023-03-26

Twenty-nine Chinese military aircraft enter the Taiwanese air defence zone, prompting the Taiwanese Air Force to send their own aircraft in response.
2022-06-21

At least 46 people are killed and 79 others are injured in a fire at a 13-storey tower block in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2021-10-14

Taiwan severs diplomatic relations with Kiribati, according to Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. Only the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu maintain formal relations with Taiwan in the Pacific.
2019-09-20

China stages joint war games featuring mock beach landing, helicopter assaults and tank battles along its east coast, just days before the inauguration of Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen.
2016-05-18

Archaeologists in Taiwan discover 48 sets of remains unearthed in graves in Taichung. The most striking discovery among them is the 4,800-year-old skeleton of a mother looking down at a child cradled in her arms.
2016-04-27

Typhoon Goni leaves seven people dead and two people missing as it moves from the Philippines towards Taiwan and Okinawa, Japan.
2015-08-22

Taiwan's Control Yuan investigatory agency reports that the Taiwan Power Company's Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant has been leaking radioactive water for three years.
2013-08-9