The Latest Breaking News from Taiwan

Joseph Wu backs Chinese protesters but says Beijing ‘might try to create external crisis to divert domestic attention’

This blog is now closed

The European Union and its member states are enhancing their political relations with Taiwan, but it comes more expressly from the action of their legislative branches rather than their executive actors.

Taiwan's air force may be on the front lines of defending against China's daily incursions into the skies near the democratically governed island, but for downtime and to boost morale they have a secret weapon - their own band.

China says a delegation of Australian MPs are 'playing with fire' visiting Taiwan, but one coalition senator says it's simply business as usual.

The White House said on Monday that the U.S. administration is continuing to work with Congress on ways to "reinforce deterrence" against any changes to the status of Taiwan.

The semiconductor industry is poised to benefit from the megatrend of digitization, which may not lose momentum soon. Furthermore, growing corporate investments and government support should drive the industry’s growth. Thus, fundamentally sound semiconductor stocks Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), United Microelectronics (UMC), Photronics (PLAB), and Xperi (XPER) could be ideal…

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

YONAGUNI, Okinawa -- Yonaguni Island, Japan's westernmost island, held its first evacuation drill on Wednesday over possible ballistic missile strikes.