The local press has been dominated by the multiple unfolding scandals, financial crisis, arrests and revelations coming out coming out in a such a steady stream that since August 6 every day usually ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) yesterday welcomed African leaders to Beijing, where he would be holding a smaller checkbook and have a clearer sense of what China wants in exchange: bigger returns ...

After protesters blocked the entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Tuesday in an attempt to stop a judicial overhaul, lawmakers took the first steps to jam through the proposal at a nearby gymnasium. The ...

The minimum monthly wage is to rise to NT$28,590 and the minimum hourly rate to NT$190 pending Executive Yuan approval, the ninth minimum wage increase since the Democratic Progressive Party took ...

The Russian city of Vladivostok lies approximately 45km from the Sino-Russian border on the Sea of Japan. The area was not always Russian territory: It was once the site of a Chinese settlement. The ...

Prosecutors in Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) corruption case filed a request for his detention on suspicion of accepting bribes and profiteering. The Taipei District Court ...

Japanese actor Satoshi Tsumabuki yesterday holds a sign promoting Taiwan at a news conference at which the Tourism Administration named him its new tourism ambassador in Japan.

The amendments to three gender equality laws — the Gender Equity Education Act (性別平等教育法), the Gender Equality in Employment Act (性別平等工作法) and the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act (性騷擾防治法) — were ...

The High Court yesterday overturned a Taipei District Court decision to release Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and sent the case back to the lower court. The Taipei District ...

Taiwanese para table tennis player Cheng Ming-chih won silver on Tuesday in the men’s singles event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Cheng missed the gold after losing to Tommy Urhaug of Norway ...

Half of the population experience pain at least once a week, with more than 90 percent being accustomed to enduring it, a pharmacists’ association survey found. Taipei Pharmacists’ Association ...

During her final years of high school, Chinese teenager Xu Yunting found an unusual way to make some pocket money: transforming herself into male video game characters and taking their female devotees ...