The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday welcomed the EU-Canada Summit’s joint statement that stressed the importance of the Taiwan Strait.Taiwan would continue to work with Canada, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is launching a purge of the country’s military, a report on China released on Monday by the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said.Xi and other high-ranking g...

The G7 on Wednesday called for protecting peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and support for the nation’s meaningful participation in international organizations, while the UK and Japan reite...

A Taiwanese organization based in Tokyo on Sunday lodged a protest against Japanese publisher Shueisha for categorizing former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) under “China” in its collection on Asian ...

China’s booming electric vehicle (EV) industry is fueling a lithium rush in the Tibetan Plateau that risks damaging the troubled region’s fragile ecology and deepening rights violations, research p...

First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb toward the brightest of blue ...

After a recent visit to Beijing, Stanford University political scientist Oriana Skylar Mastro wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on Monday last week, titled “This is what America is getting wrong...

A former Ministry of Culture civil servant accused of supplying information on Tibetans in Taiwan to the Chinese government has been indicted on national security charges, prosecutors said on Tuesd...

A first World Cup loss to hosts India has done little to dampen spirits in the New Zealand camp, with players soaking up the delights of Dharamsala and reveling in a visit to the Dalai Lama....

Accepting the so-called “1992 consensus” is equivalent to abandoning the sovereignty of Taiwan, Vice President and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate William Lai (賴清德) said w...

A strategic partnership signed by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Friday emphasized the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and ...

Avalanches on Saturday struck high on the slopes of the Tibetan mountain Shishapangma as more than 50 climbers were making a push for the summit, killing an American and Nepalese mountaineer, China...

DIPLOMACYMa departs for summitFormer president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday departed for Singapore to attend the Asia Future Summit being held today and tomorrow, his...

In Taiwan’s English-speaking circles, quite a few people are familiar with the names Clarissa Wei (魏貝珊) and Ivy Chen (陳淑娥). California-born Wei has been writing about local food and other subjects ...

India has long been touted as one of the world’s top emerging economies, and was a BRIC nation — Brazil, Russia, India and China — when it formed in 2001, expanding to BRICS in 2010 with the additi...

When Rudyard Kipling wrote the novel Kim in 1901, he popularized British intelligence officer Arthur Conolly’s phrase, “The Great Game.” The game was the 19th-century geopolitical struggle b...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) on Wednesday returned from Saint Kitts and Nevis, where he attended the celebration of the nation’s 40th anniversary of independence and signed an agreem...

During a news conference in Vietnam on Sept. 10, a reporter asked US President Joe Biden about the possibility of China invading Taiwan. Biden replied that Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is too...