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Ten Taiwanese people, including former and active military personnel, were indicted on April 14 for allegedly spying for Beijing, Taiwanese prosecutors said.

Taiwan will conduct new drills in coming weeks to ensure the island has access to critical supplies in the event of a Chinese blockade, a risk demonstrated by Iran’s closure of a global energy chokepoint.

China’s latest nuclear-response drills in the Taiwan Strait suggest a Taiwan conflict could escalate into a limited but dangerously uncontrollable nuclear war in Asia.

Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun arrived in China on Tuesday at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, in what she’s calling a “journey for peace” as Beijing pushes for the self-ruled island to come under its contr...

The number of Chinese military aircraft and balloons flying near Taiwan in March dropped by half from the year before, according to the island’s data and media reports, with the decline possibly linked to US President Do...

China poses a pressing threat given its military ​build-up continues unabated and effective deterrence is needed to make sure any attack would ‌be very risky for Beijing, Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Fr...

Taipei prosecutors on March 4 indicted 62 people linked to the Prince Group, a multinational network accused of running a vast network of scam centres, including the company’s chairman who was arrested and deported to Ch...

Taiwan’s ties with the United States are “rock solid,” the island’s president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone about topics that included the self-ruled i...

China launched 10 hours of live-firing exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday, deploying new amphibious assault ships alongside bomber aircraft and warships on the second day of its largest-ever war games aimed at rehearsing...

Japan's defence ministry says it scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone off an island near Taiwan, amid a weeks-long diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing.

Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday's (Nov 12) arrival of a much weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought heavy downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that ran neck-high in pla...

Typhoon Ragasa, the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday after killing 17 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rai...

Thousands of people were evacuated from northern Philippine villages and schools and offices were closed Monday in the archipelago and neighboring Taiwan as one of this year’s strongest typhoons threatened to cause flood...

China’s defense minister renewed threats that his country would take over self-ruled Taiwan as he opened a security forum in Beijing on Thursday.

Typhoon Podul blew through southern Taiwan on Wednesday packing winds of up to 191 kph (118 mph) and leaving one person missing, as a large swathe of the island shut down and hundreds of flights were cancelled.

Authorities in Taiwan were scrambling on Tuesday to evacuate hundreds from the likely path of Typhoon Podul, expected to make landfall on the island's southeastern coast, while nearby areas battle to recover from the hav...

Torrential rains lashed southern Taiwan for a second day on Tuesday forcing some 3,000 people to evacuate and businesses and schools to close, as authorities warned of "intense" rainfall of up to 90 centimetres (35.4 inc...

Typhoon Danas lashed southern Taiwan with record winds and strong rain early on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 500 in a rare hit to the island's densely populated west coast.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) recorded on Monday sorties by six PLA aircraft and six PLAN vessels around its territory.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's east coast on Wednesday, the island's Central Weather Administration said.