Taiwan News

The May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard set off an inadvertent naval competition between Taiwan and China.

Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Taiwanese Securities Sector here TAIPEI/SEOUL/SINGAPORE, May 23 Fitch Ratings says in a new report that credit profiles of Taiwanese securities companies have remained generally stable despite depressed trading volumes.

Hotels in the Asia/Pacific region experienced decreases in the three key performance metrics in April 2013 when reported in U.S. dollars, according to data compiled by STR Global.

Kiribati will open an embassy in Taipei May 31, with Kiribati President Anote Tong hosting the inauguration ceremony, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu on Tuesday awarded a medal to a former U.S. music advisor to Taiwan to commemorate his contribution to local armed forces who helped to create a military music school in 1955.

Finance Minister Chang Sheng-ford said in the Legislative Yuan yesterday that now is not the right time to introduce an energy tax, and confirmed that the tax will not to be launched in 2014.

Los Angeles, May 22 Taiwan's Tourism Bureau launched a campaign in Hawaii Wednesday to promote the country's summer landscape, particularly around the Tropic of Cancer, which bisects the island.

Yang Ming Marine Transport, Evergreen Line , Pacific International Lines and Sinotrans will launch a joint China-Australia-Taiwan service on June 7. The CAT service will employ six 4,250-TEU container vessels, including two each from Evergreen and Yang Ming and one each from PIL and Sinotrans.

Taipei, May 23 Legal precedent shows that the fatal May 9 attack on a Taiwanese fishing boat by a Philippine government vessel was a violation of international law, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

WD , a world leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced that it will demonstrate its solid state hybrid drives and 5 mm ultra-slim hard drive technologies in tablet and other thin-and-light devices at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013 trade event, held in Taiwan from June 4 to June 8, 2013.

He is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence which began in 2009. Central Propaganda Department: Do not report or comment on the May 11 villagers' attack on government workers in Dongqiao Township, Hui'an County, Fuzhou, Fujian Province.

Arvin Chen's Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, starring Richie Jen and Mavis Fan , has received rave reviews internationally.

Around 18,000 Filipinos working in in the manufacturing hub and port city are now more at ease after the outpouring of anger reached fever pitch here.

TAIPEI, Taiwan --Ministry of Economic Affairs chief Chang Chia-chu yesterday denied a report that the ministry has hidden research showing that antrodia camphorate , however, chose not to publish the research that was finished last February, the reports claimed.

Taipei Zoo yesterday announced that so far this year it has successfully nurtured 11 Taiwan Blue Pheasants , also known as the Swinhoe's Pheasant, a threatened bird species endemic to the mountains of Taiwan.

Taiwan , seeking to rein in the local dollar and boost export competitiveness, tightened limits on domestic banks' bullish bets on the currency following the yen's tumble to the lowest level since 2008.

Taipei, May 22 Taiwanese people are generally friendly toward Philippine nationals in Taiwan, Foreign Minister David Lin said Wednesday after a rumor of Filipino worker being mistreated as was determined to be untrue.

Democratic Progressive Party politicians from younger generations said Wednesday they wanted human rights to play a more crucial role in relations between Taiwan and The group of lawmakers and party officials with different factional backgrounds presented a resolution they wanted the opposition party to adopt during its congress this coming ... (more)

A Filipino worker in Tainan City, Taiwan is still recuperating after he was attacked by unidentified individuals while on his way to work.

Even before the Taiwan government had received the official letter containing the Philippine apology for the death of the Taiwanese fisherman, Taipei already knew its contents, highly knowledgeable sources said.