21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (475+ words) A Taiwanese academic yesterday slammed Chinese drama Emperor Jiaqing and the Journey to Taiwan (嘉慶君遊臺灣), saying it distorted history and promoted a cross-strait unification narrative. The microdrama is funded and presented by Jingcai Taiwan, a Chinese state-run media platform of…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (464+ words) Taiwan yesterday routed the Philippines 13-0 in the Taipei Dome with a 10-run second-inning to win the bronze-medal game of the Baseball Federation of Asia’s U-18 Asian Baseball Championship. In the second inning of the five-inning mercy-rule victory, with 14 plate appearances…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (221+ words) Taiwan’s men’s basketball team yesterday drained 17 three-pointers in a 91-69 rout of Qatar, advancing to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games in Japan. The lopsided victory was largely powered by the team’s precision long-range shooting. Of the 17 three-pointers, seven came in…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (420+ words) State-owned oil supplier CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) on Saturday announced that it would raise domestic gasoline prices by NT$0.7 (US$0.02) per liter and diesel prices by NT$0.6 per liter this week after international crude oil prices rose above US…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (326+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A customer buys pomeloes at a market in Nantou County yesterday. Local pomelo consumption picks up steam around the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Nantou County’s…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (461+ words) LONGSHAN TEMPLE AND TAIWAN’S DEMOCRACY The story for Wei begins at Taipei’s Longshan Temple, an ironic choice. The temple has been the site of numerous historical events over its nearly three centuries of existence, but all that is gone from…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (198+ words) At the same time, Taiwan’s civil society remains vibrant, its independent media serves as a check on government, and public opinion remains solidly in favor of preserving the cross-Strait status quo. In other words, Taiwan’s political system is engaged in…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (568+ words) Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996 was a defining moment in its transition to democracy and a declaration to the world that its people would choose their leaders and future, former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said today. In a pre-written…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (356+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Taiwan-bound F-16Vs turn back to Hawaii shortly after takeoff You might also like John J. Tkacik, Jr. On Taiwan: Happy 75th Birthday, Taiwan! Well, sort of. Tomorrow…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (381+ words) A rodent’s interruption of a professional baseball game at Taipei Dome on Wednesday sparked renewed discussion of rat control efforts, weeks ahead of the city’s mayoral election. Just before the eighth inning of Wednesday’s game between the Fubon Guardians and…...