News: Taiwan

We have started to collect the most important news related to Taiwan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Taiwan – overview

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• December 19th 2009 – September 23rd 2009
• September 21st 2009 – August 17th 2009
• August 17th 2009 – July 26th 2009
• July 24th 2009 – December 30th 2008
• December 26th 2008 – November 7th 2008
• November 6th 2008 – August 30th 2008
• August 8th 2008 – May 26th 2008
• May 23rd 2008 – March 21st 2008
• March 16th 2008 – October 18th 2007
• October 10th 2007 – June 7th 2007
• June 7th 2007 – March 10th 2007
• March 6th 2007 – December 22nd 2006
• December 15th 2006 – October 2nd 2006
• September 16th 2006 – June 1st 2006
• May 25th 2006 – January 26th 2006
• January 25th 2006 – December 3rd 2005

Taiwan: news

Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan

Saturday, December 19th 2009, 14:40
related places: Taipei

A strong earthquake rocks parts of Taiwan, rattling buildings in Taipei, although no serious casualties are reported yet.
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Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan

Saturday, December 19th 2009, 14:40
related places: Taipei

A strong earthquake rocks parts of Taiwan, rattling buildings in Taipei, although no serious casualties are reported yet.
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Taiwan polls hint at China unease

Monday, December 7th 2009, 9:14
related countries: China

Local elections in Taiwan suggest unease at President Ma Ying-jeou's policies, including closer ties with China.
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Taiwan paper fined over cartoons

Thursday, November 26th 2009, 12:50

Taiwan's Apple Daily newspaper is fined $15,000 for using lurid moving cartoons to illustrate stories of violence and child abuse.
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Mao and Chiang heirs bridge gap

Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 12:13
related countries: China

The grand-children of former combatants over the fate of China, Mao Tse-tung and Chiang Kai-shek, meet in Taiwan.
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Taiwan's Chen 'shooting' mystery

Thursday, November 12th 2009, 15:14

New suspicions are raised about the 2004 apparent shooting of former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian.
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Taiwanese puppets burned in fire

Wednesday, November 4th 2009, 15:41

Hundreds of rare antique glove puppets from Taiwan are destroyed in a warehouse fire.
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China stamp without Taiwan fetches a record price at auction

Monday, November 2nd 2009, 12:17
related countries: China, Hong Kong

A 1968 stamp withdrawn from use by China for its failure to show Taiwan under Chinese rule, fetches a record price in Hong Kong.
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Taiwan warns of China 'threat'

Tuesday, October 20th 2009, 18:11
related countries: China

Taiwan says China's military strength is far more than it needs for self-defence, and is a threat to the Asia-Pacific region.
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Art 'reunion'

Wednesday, October 7th 2009, 23:37
related places: Taipei

Historic China-Taiwan exhibition opens in Taipei
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Taiwan rejects 'looted' China art

Wednesday, October 7th 2009, 11:34
related countries: China
related places: Taipei

Taipei's main museum refuses to exhibit two controversial Chinese sculptures, as a new joint Taiwan-China exhibition opens.
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Witches' lore

Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 23:26

Taiwan's aboriginal mediums pass on traditional skills
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Alternative view

Tuesday, September 29th 2009, 16:35
related countries: China

How 60 years of China communism is seen in Taiwan
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Taiwan stops Uighur activist trip

Friday, September 25th 2009, 10:38
related countries: China

Taiwan says it will not allow exiled Chinese Uighur Muslim activist Rebiya Kadeer to visit the island as she had planned.
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China lends rare art to Taiwan

Wednesday, September 23rd 2009, 13:54

China says it will lend some of its cultural artefacts to a Taiwan museum next month, for the first time since the civil war.
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