The United States government said yesterday that it welcomed Taiwan's plan to allocate US$40 billion for a special defense ...

The residents of Kaohsiung are too pragmatic for that. The city might have become a wonderful haven of arts, culture, development and infrastructure in the past decade, but for a long time it was ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was to visit the Dominican Republic yesterday for talks on combating drug trafficking amid a standoff between Washington and Venezuela, officials said. The ...

Several US senators on Monday proposed a strategic subsea cables act of 2025 to spur US government engagement related to the security, installation and maintenance, and repair of undersea fiber-optic ...

Led by Republican congressman Lance Gooden, the "Taiwan Interpol Endorsement and Inclusion Act" is co-sponsored by lawmakers across party lines including Democrats Brad Sherman and Ted Lieu, and ...

Taiwan has already held preliminary talks with the US about what weapons it wants to buy as part of a US$40-billion supplementary defense budget, defense minister Wellington Koo (賴清德) said today.

A: According to the 2024 TOEIC score statistics, Taiwanese scored an average of 315 points in listening and 265 points in ...

Many news outlets and pollsters lump the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in the pan-blue camp, this column included. Many TPP supporters bristle at the pan-blue designation and would prefer to be viewed ...

The Brazilian Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup after he exhausted all appeals. Bolsonaro, 70, ...

At present PRC citizens are the only foreigners who can hold office in Taiwan. The rest of us have to give up our nationality, attain Taiwan nationality and wait 10 years before we can run for office.

People who use force against railway personnel in an illegal manner would face a maximum three-year sentence and a maximum fine of NT$300,000 (US$9,569), according to proposed amendments to the ...

Former Georgian minister of defense Tinatin Khidasheli, who heads a think tank fighting the Soviet legacy in Georgia, is a research fellow at the Taiwan Democracy Foundation. She was asked to comment ...