The Latest Breaking News from Kaohsiung

Taiwan prepares for Typhoon Krathon with evacuations and closures as the storm approaches.

Taiwan closed schools and evacuated thousands of people in the south of the island Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Super Typhoon Krathon as the president warned it was likely cause "catastrophic damage".

Taiwan’s president tells military academy cadets that the main challenge they face is the strong rise of Beijing.

When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is prepping to roll out an all-new process technology, it usually builds a new fab to meet demand of its alpha customers and then either adds capacity by upgrading existing fabs or building another facility. With N2 (2nm-class), the company seems to be taking…

Once political outsiders, Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party is now seen as ‘establishment’ by younger voters.

Foxconn (2317.TW) is planning to invest T$25 billion ($820 million) in the next three years in new manufacturing facilities in southern Taiwan to support its electric vehicle (EV) ambitions, the company said on Sunday. The company, formally called Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, said the investments in Kaohsiung will…

A large explosion hit Taiwan's state-backed CPC Dalin Refinery in the southern city of Kaohsiung on Thursday night, videos and images from the Fire Deparment showed, with heavy fire seen above the plant but no injuries initially found, officials said.

Taiwan's navy took delivery on Friday of a new, domestically made amphibious warfare ship that can be used to land troops and bolster supply lines to vulnerable islands, part of President Tsai Ing-wen's defence self-sufficiency push.

China’s military exercises are making ship operators think twice about heading into one of Taiwan’s most important ports, creating potential delays for shipments of electronic goods.

Bloomberg reports that government investigation ascribed Taiwan's recent power outage to defective design and inferior communication ending speculations of possible cyberattack. A maintenance team at Hsinta had removed insulating gas from a circuit breaker at the plant on March 2 and warned operators not to route electricity through the equipment. However, a…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd's (NYSE:TSM) multiple plants in Taiwan experienced short "power dips" after large parts of the island were hit by power cuts, Reuters reports. The leading contract chipmaker was checking for "any actual impact." Bloomberg reports that a failure at the Hsinta coal-fired power plant in Kaohsiung led to a…