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Taiwan Eyes US To Help Supply Covid-19 Jabs

Taiwan is in talks with the United States for a share of the Covid-19 vaccine doses President Joe Biden plans to send ab... Read more

Taiwan Launches Power Outage Amid Heatwave

Taiwan launched island-wide power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and fai... Read more

Taiwan Scrambles For Vaccines As Covid Cases Rise

A surge of coronavirus infections in Taiwan, one of the world's Covid-19 mitigation success stories, has left it scrambl... Read more

No Need To Panic Buy, Officials Tell Taipei Residents

Taiwan appealed to people to avoid panic buying of items such as instant noodles and toilet paper as new curbs on gather... Read more

China Cancels Attempts To Climb Mount Everest

China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world’s highest peak because of fears of impo... Read more

Wuhan And Shengze Hit By Tornadoes

Two tornadoes ripped through China's central city of Wuhan and a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu, killing 12 peo... Read more

Taipei And New Taipei Covid Alert Level Raised

Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for... Read more

China Lands Rover On Surface Of Mars

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported... Read more

Taiwan Apple Daily To Stop Publishing Print Version

The Taiwan arm of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily is to stop publishing its print version, the newspaper ... Read more

China Rover To Attempt Mars Landing Over Coming Days

China's "Zhurong" rover, part of its ambitious space programme to send a probe to Mars, is set to attempt the challengin... Read more

China Accuses US Of 'coercive Diplomacy'

China on Friday accused the United States of “coercive diplomacy” following comments by Secretary of State Antony Bl... Read more

Taiwan Says No Need To Raise Covid Alert Level

Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday that there is no need to raise the island's Covid-19 alert level for the ti... Read more

Mainland Reports Seven Covid Cases, Two Of Them Local

Mainland China reported seven new Covid-19 cases on May 13, down from nine cases a day earlier, the country's national h... Read more

Taiwan Says Its Power Back To Normal

Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power late on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem ... Read more

Blackouts Reported Across Taiwan After Plant Outage

A rotational electricity blackout was implemented across Taiwan on Thursday following an outage at a major power plant, ... Read more