Taipei: Taiwan’s prosecutors have sought a court permit to detain a retired insurance firm manager and hold her incommunicado over her alleged involvement in selling problematic trust certificates and reaping more than NT$50 million (US$1.58 million) …
Taipei: A man in New Taipei was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for abusing his 2-year-old stepson to death, while the child’s mother received a 19-year prison term for failing to stop the violence, according to a ruling by the New Taipei Dis…
Tainan: A restored Japanese colonial-era railcar returned to the rails Saturday at an event marking Taiwan Sugar Corp.’s (Taisugar) 80th anniversary and ties between Suantou Sugar Factory Cultural Park and the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway (WLL…
Kaohsiung: A traditional voyaging canoe from Palau arrived at Kaohsiung Port on Saturday, greeted by a ceremony hosted by Taiwan’s Ocean Affairs Council (OAC) to honor the crew undertaking an ambitious Pacific journey using traditional navigation tech…
Taipei: Around 300 people joined an annual march in Taipei on Saturday to commemorate the 1959 Tibetan uprising, with organizers warning that China’s “expansion of authoritarian rule will not stop in just one place.”
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Taipei: Kalinga Province, the Philippines Nestled in the northern Philippine village of Buscalan, 109-year-old Apo Whang-Od has made the once-quiet community famous for her role in preserving Indigenous hand-tapped tattoos. Buscalan, about 420 kilomet…
