Tag: Taiwan

Taiwan has protested to the Venice film festival authorities for wrongly listing a film vying for the Golden Lion award as co-produced by China,...

A city in central Taiwan has made July 3 "Lady Gaga Day" to mark the pop diva's highly anticipated first concert on the island,...

A boat built completely from plastic bottles and other recycled materials, including old advertising banners, set sail in Taiwan to raise awareness about the...

At least five people were killed and 84 injured Wednesday when a falling tree struck a train carrying Chinese tourists on a popular but...

TAIPEI - Taiwan on Thursday said it had found radioactive particles on a batch of clams imported from Japan amid growing anxiety about food safety.
The discovery came after Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council for the first time on Sunday found a shipment of fava beans from southern Japan had been slightly contaminated. The latest radiation was found on 12 kilograms (26.4 pounds) of geoduck, better known to locals as "elephant trunk clam."
The clams from Aichi prefecture, in

TAIPEI: Taiwan and China agreed on Tuesday to hold a fresh round of negotiations next week focusing on medical and health cooperation, officials said.
Top Taiwanese envoy Kao Koong-lian arranged the talks with Chinese counterpart Zheng Lizhong in Shanghai, said Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation which handles civil exchanges with the mainland in the absence of official contacts. China's chief negotiator Chen Yunlin is scheduled to fly to Taipei on Monday and hold talks with his