Taipei News

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...

Taiwan's famous Ju Percussion Group is banging the steel drums at two concerts in Taipei this weekend...The group's founder and artistic director, Ju Tzong-ching, said the instrument was difficult to play, partly because of its variety...Therefore it was also suitable...

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...

The MMO Champion website reported the man's character "Little Grey" is the first to complete every achievement in the game, reaching 986 out of a possible 986 points . Along the way he's virtually slain 390,895 creatures and died 8,543...

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...

At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broader 50-share S&P CNX Nifty shut at 5,108.9 points, against the previous close at 5,131.7 points, a loss of 22.8 points or 0.44 percent. Broader market indices ended mixed as the BSE midcap...

It's not so outlandish to suggest that the sport's very future rides on Tiger's new, more vulnerable persona...So he's a bit of a rogue, as it turns out; the world won't end. The horribly and admittedly flawed John Daly would...