Taipei: Taipei introduced its first five negative-pressure smoking rooms on Thursday, with Mayor Chiang Wan-an calling the initiative a major milestone in the local government’s wider efforts to promote a

Taipei: Visiting Paraguayan President Santiago Pe±a on Thursday reaffirmed his country’s diplomatic ties with Taiwan, stating he recently met with his Honduran counterpart in the United States before arriving in

Taipei: The government plans to amend relevant laws to grant each parent an additional month of parental leave allowance if both apply for the full six months of parental leave

Kaohsiung: As a part of its eighth round of dive tests, the Narwhal, Taiwan’s first domestically built submarine, conducted torpedo launch trials, CSBC Corp., Taiwan, the vessel’s primary contractor, said

Taipei: A standoff between the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and the Ministry of Culture (MOC) escalated Thursday after Public Television Service (PTS) Chairperson Hu Yuan-hui was asked to leave a

Taipei: The Supreme Court: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by prosecutors and television personality Mickey Huang, making final his four-year suspended sentence for purchasing sexually explicit material involving

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to focus on trade and economic matters during his expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, although the Taiwan issue is

Taipei: The Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to tighten penalties for illegal gravel mining, doubling the maximum fine for offenders to NT$10 million (US$319,050), in the wake of a

Taipei: Taiwan-based GlobalWafers Co., the world’s third-largest silicon wafer supplier, announced that its 12-inch production sites worldwide are fully utilized, even as its net profit for the first quarter decreased