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Three people are killed and five more injured in a mass stabbing near a subway station in Taipei, Taiwan. The perpetrator, who also threw smoke bombs at the train station, dies during the chase with police.
2025-12-19

The Taiwanese Coast Guard intercepts the Cameroon-registered container ship "Shunxin39" after it was suspected of damaging an undersea cable north of Taiwan yesterday.
2025-01-4

The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, returns the remains of four Paiwan warriors to the Taiwanese indigenous community, marking the first international repatriation of ancestral remains for Taiwan. The skulls, which the university acquired in 1907 and are believed to have been taken by Japanese forces in 1874, will be housed at the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung while awaiting a final resting place decision from Mudan authorities.
2023-11-3

Taiwan's Central Election Commission approves three referendums in late August. The referendums will allow the public to decide on banning pork containing ractopamine, on holding referendums on the same day as general elections, and whether to change the location of a planned new liquefied natural gas terminal to protect the maritime environment.
2021-05-14

The Typhoon Jebi in Taiwan killed six people while another was declared missing.
2018-09-3

Taiwan authorities arrest three construction company executives of the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building, which collapsed Saturday, on suspicion of negligent homicide. Almost all of those killed have been recovered from the rubble from this building; the 100-plus missing are likely buried in the debris.
2016-02-9

The death toll from the Taiwan earthquake rises to 38 with more than 100 people missing.
2016-02-8

The death toll from yesterday's earthquake in Taiwan rises to at least 29, with at least 120 trapped under collapsed buildings in Tainan, while 198 people have been rescued.
2016-02-7

Taiwan evacuates hundreds of people ahead of Typhoon Soudelor (2015).
2015-08-7

A fire in a bowling alley causes a roof collapse in Taoyuan City, Taiwan killing six firefighters.
2015-01-20