Taiwan News

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have almost concluded their negotiations on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation in financial supervision, Taiwan's top negotiator with China said Friday. "Negotiations have almost come to a conclusion, " said Chiang...

Taipei, Nov. 7 (CNA) For years, prostitutes caught in police raids in Taiwan were punished under the law, while their clients walked free. However, this law was challenged as "unfair" by two judges in a recent case involving two elderly...

AIG said Friday it was profitable for the second straight quarter as its core insurance operations continue to stabilize after the company's bailout by the government last year. American International Group also said the amount of its government financial assistance...

Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau says a moderate earthquake has struck the central part of the island...The earthquake struck at 5:32 p.m. (0932 GMT) Thursday and was centered in rural Nantou county, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of the capital,...

Is smart-phone pioneer BlackBerry in danger of becoming the AOL of the mobile-device market? Verizon Wireless's launch on Friday of the Droid phone, a Motorola-built handset using Google's Android operating system, signals the opening of a new front in the...

Nankuan music (南管) and Liyuan dance (梨園), one of the oldest Chinese music and dance styles, for the production. The chapter, based on an ancient panting “The Feast of Han Hsi-tsai” (韓熙載夜宴圖), tells the story of an Imperial official being...

Taipei, Nov. 4 (CNA) Nine Taiwanese companies in the animation and comics industry struck a deal Wednesday to invest a combined total of NT$500 million (US$15.36 million) in an animation industry park being constructed in the city of Guangzhou, in...

Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing -- the hosting and...

A region of Taiwan that prides itself on puppetry, an art that originated centuries ago in China, lost 400 to 500 of its best pieces to a fire, leaving just one major stash, county officials said on Wednesday. The fire,...