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Backlash over Hong Kong's immigration 'blacklist'
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
Taiwanese scholars Wu Rwei-ren and Wu Jieh-min of Taipei's prestigious Academia Sinica, due to speak at a conference in Hong Kong Friday, were the latest to say...
China sentences 44 Taiwanese to prison for telecom fraud
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
The Taiwanese were among a group sentenced to between 21 months and 15 years in prison and slapped with fines, the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court sa...
Chinese jets carry out multiple drills around Taiwan
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
China sees self-governed Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified at some point -- by military force, if necessary. The two sides split after a civil war...
China fumes over potential US navy visits to Taiwan
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang charged that the legislation, while non-binding, violates the one-China policy and "constitutes an interference in China's do...
Taiwanese activist jailed in China for five years for 'subversion'
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
Lee sat nervously as the three-judge panel read the sentence at the Yueyang intermediate people's court in central Hunan province, according to a video posted o...
Chinese court jails Taiwanese activist for five years for 'subversion'
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
Lee, wearing glasses and a green sweater, sat nervously as the three-judge panel read the sentence at the Yueyang intermediate people's court in central Hunan p...
Taiwan fighter jet goes missing during drill
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
The single-seat aircraft fell off the radar at 6:43pm (10:43 GMT) while it was conducting regular nighttime training, the ministry said in a statement. It was f...
China warns US not to allow Taiwan stopover
Oct 27, 2017 (AFP)
The statement followed reports that Tsai will transit through Hawaii and the U.S. territory of Guam next week -- a trip that comes at a delicate time with Presi...
Taiwan leader hopes for 'breakthrough' with China
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
Tsai was speaking publicly for the first time since Xi was handed a second term during the 19th Communist Party meeting that concluded this week, which cemented...
China ready to 'defeat' Taiwan independence: Xi
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
Addressing a twice-a-decade gathering of the Communist Party in Beijing, Xi warned that China has "the resolve, the confidence, and the ability to defeat separa...
Taiwan president to visit Pacific allies amid China pressure
Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)
It comes after Panama cut official ties with Taiwan in June, choosing instead to form diplomatic relations with China -- leaving the island with only 20 nations...
Taiwan to bolster military but still seeks peace: president
Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)
Cross-strait relations have rapidly deteriorated since Tsai took office last May, with Beijing cutting all official communications with Taipei as it does not tr...
Fishermen 'kept like slaves' in Taiwan
Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)
Fishing and boat company owners were among 19 people charged Monday in the southern city of Kaohsiung for illegally holding 81 foreign fishermen in buildings af...
Taiwan jails Chinese grad student for recruiting spies
Sep 15, 2017 (AFP)
The verdict comes amid tense cross-strait relations and just days after China put on trial a Taiwanese democracy activist who was held incommunicado since March...
Taiwanese activist pleads guilty to Chinese subversion charges
Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)
Lee Ming-cheh appeared alongside a Chinese co-defendant named Peng Yuhua at Yueyang intermediate people's court in central Hunan province, according to video fo...
Taiwanese activist confesses to Chinese subversion charges
Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)
Lee Ming-cheh appeared alongside a Chinese co-defendant named Peng Yuhua at Yueyang intermediate court in central Hunan province, according to video footage pos...
Wife of detained Taiwanese activist heads to China
Sep 10, 2017 (AFP)
Lee Ching-yu, wife of NGO worker Lee Ming-cheh who has been held incommunicado in China for more than 170 days, left for Shanghai around noon to connect to a fl...
Detained Taiwan activist to stand trial in China
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
NGO worker Lee Ming-cheh went missing during a visit to the mainland in March and Chinese authorities later confirmed he was being investigated for suspected ac...
Young Taiwanese choose China jobs over politics
Aug 20, 2017 (AFP)
Cross-strait tensions have soared since China-sceptic Tsai Ing-wen took power last year, with Beijing cutting all official communication. China still sees the s...
Samurai sword attack outside Taiwan presidential office
Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)
The Taiwanese man who was arrested at the scene said he was expressing his political views and had stolen the sword from a nearby history museum, police told AF...
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