Sources: BusinessWeek
Taiwan carries out its first execution in five years on a man who was convicted of the 2013 murder of his former girlfriend and her mother. 2025-01-16
The "Wall Street Journal" reports a contingent of U.S. special forces soldiers have been deployed in Taiwan to train Taiwanese forces amid tensions with China. The military trainers were first deployed under the Trump administration. 2021-10-7
Taiwan announces that it will open a representative office in Aix-en-Provence to serve southern France. This is the second Taiwanese representative office in France and the third office to open this year, coming after the establishment of an office in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and the re-opening of the office in Guam. 2020-08-25
Taiwan decriminalises adultery in what is considered a landmark ruling. Marital infidelity was a crime with a maximum sentence of a year in prison. 2020-05-29
The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Taiwan rises to 41 with 109 people missing. 2016-02-9
Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in Taiwan killing at least four people with four people missing and 64 injured. 2015-08-8
The World Health Organization monitors an avian flu outbreak in Taiwan, as H5N8 avian flu virus infects nine farms. 2015-01-13
Heading toward Taiwan, slow-moving Typhoon Saola's torrential rains lead to the deaths of at least 12 people and displacement of 154,000 in the Philippines. 2012-08-1
Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan. 2010-09-9