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Taiwan government will work to revive the sport of baseball in Taiwan from the grassroots level, the country's sports chief said Monday. "Efforts will be made first to promote the baseball sport and consolidate its existence and development from the...

Tip-offs on Internet and mobile WAP sites containing pornographic contents have surged Saturday as authorities announced Friday to give each qualified informer with up to 10,000 yuan ($1,465) in reward. Authorities quickly arrested two registered co-owners of the club, its...

A delegation of biologists and plant scientists from Taiwan wrapped up on Saturday a visit to India that had focused on bamboo planting. The five-member mission was led by Lin Nan-sheng, director of the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology...

The crew members were working on four fishing boats that were seized by Myanmar authorities Nov. 18, probably because they intruded into that country’s exclusive economic zone. As soon as it was informed of the situation, Taiwan decided to send...

The ruling Kuomintang lost Ilan to the opposition Democratic Progressive Party and Hualien to an independent in Saturday’s local elections, with a review being demanded for Penghu. The KMT ended up with a total of 12 counties and cities, the...

Taiwanese voters on Saturday will cast ballots in a slew of local-level elections billed as a ''mid-term test'' for the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou, who took office last year on vows to improve relations with rival China. To access...

Primus Financial Holdings Ltd. and China Strategic Holdings Ltd. said Wednesday they will send a revised application to Taiwan regulators "hopefully next week" on the proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of American International Group Inc.'s Taiwan life insurance unit.

The French Consulate General opened Tuesday in Kyoto while an external relations office of Taiwan was set up in Sapporo, Hokkaido, the same day. The French consulate general was moved from Osaka and opened in the ancient Japanese capital where,...

Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has decided to hold a mass rally in central Taiwan's Taichung City on Dec...The party, which favors Taiwan's independence from China, also said the protest will serve to express disapproval against the "closed- door"...