Risk of South China Sea Strife if Beijing Attempts Defense Zone
Sep 14, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Risk of South China Sea Strife if Beijing Attempts Defense Zone
TAIPEI, TAIWAN An air defense zone declared by Beijing, or any effort to stop civilian ship traffic, would raise the risk of conflict in the disputed South China Sea after years of calm, because...
World Economic Forum Helps Vietnam Bill Itself as a Business Alternative to China
Sep 12, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on World Economic Forum Helps Vietnam Bill Itself as a Business Alternative to China
TAIPEI Vietnam has a chance this week as World Economic Forum host to show curious foreign investors they can ship exports from the fast-growing country to China or the United States without the...
Tainan reports year’s first indigenous dengue fever case
Sep 11, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Tainan reports year’s first indigenous dengue fever case
Taipei, A 78-year-old woman has become the first reported indigenous dengue fever case in Tainan this year, health authorities in the southern city announced Tuesday.The woman living in Tainan's...
Sep 10, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Taiwan, Luxembourg sign working holiday deal
Taipei, Taiwan and Luxembourg have signed an agreement paving the way for a reciprocal working holiday program between the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Monday.The...
Anti-Drug Campaign Sparks Shootings of Philippine Mayors
Sep 07, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Anti-Drug Campaign Sparks Shootings of Philippine Mayors
TAIPEI, TAIWAN Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drug campaign has motivated people to gun down five mayors and deputy mayors since July, the latest casualties in a trend that has...
South Korea Proposes Reclassifying North Korean Abductees as Missing
Aug 31, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on South Korea Proposes Reclassifying North Korean Abductees as Missing
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA A proposed South Korean law to reclassify abductees held in the North as missing persons, is drawing strong criticism from human rights advocates.Abduction is a crime. Missing...
Aug 24, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Taiwan will not bow to China’s plundering: MAC
Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) Taiwan will never bow to China's bullying and plundering, and what China has done will also not alter the fact that the Republic of China (Taiwan) is a sovereign country,...
Aug 20, 2018adminPoliticsComments Off on Vietnam Controls Inflation, Avoids Broader Economic Fallout
TAIPEI Vietnam is trying to get a grip on inflation that might otherwise threaten its quick economic growth again as it did a decade ago, analysts and domestic media say.Consumer prices in June...
