Taiwan Politics News

Taiwan's president has urged the island's armed forces to become a small, elite unit, saying a voluntary military rather than conscription was key to the island's defence, local media said Thursday. Ma Ying-jeou's call, made Wednesday at a seminar at...

The Taipei District Prosecutors Office opened an investigation into the animated news presented by Apple Daily Thursday despite the paper’s apologies for its violent content. A prosecutor specializing in cases involving women and children would handle the initial stage of...

In the largest robbery in Taiwan ’s history, three gunmen stole more than $2 million in cash from a gold dealer on Monday in a violent, 30-second crime, the news media said Tuesday. A shot was fired at the dealer...

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that the briefing by American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt about U.S. President Barack Obama's China trip was one of the smoothest and most comprehensive ever. Burghardt visited Ma at the Presidential Office yesterday,...

Taiwan will probe claims that its national baseball squad deliberately lost to China in last year's Olympics preliminary round in the latest twist of a match-fixing scandal...They questioned Richard Yang, a vice-president at the lottery-administrating Taipei Fubon Bank, who reportedly...

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that he hopes for religious exchanges with China when he received a special envoy from Pope Benedict XVI. Jozef Cardinal Tomko, who arrived here Nov. 18, was in Taiwan to attend...

Taipei, Nov. 8 (CNA) Although Taiwan is set to lift its restrictions on U.S. beef imports on the basis of a recent protocol between the two countries, Taiwan importers are being turned off by costs and the complicated paperwork required...

Taipei, Oct. 4 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) issued a land warning for the Hengchun peninsula in southern Taiwan Sunday as medium Typhoon Parma continued its approach to the country. Parma, with winds gusting up to 162 kilometers per...

Mainland to push normalization of economic relations with Taiwan XI'AN�A Chinese mainland official on Taiwan affairs said here Thursday that the mainland would work actively for "normalization" of economic relations with Taiwan...The results show that signing the agreement would produce...