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BREAKING: Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council says same-sex marriages between Taiwanese and Chinese nationals will be recognized in Taiwan.
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BREAKING: Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo, whose name was on pagers that exploded in a coordinated attack on Hezbollah members in Lebanon, says the devices were made under license by a company called BAC Consulting based in Budapest, Hungary.
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Nymphia Wind turned heads at the #Emmys with a show-stopping costume using her signature banana motif.
The Taiwanese-American drag queen skyrocketed to fame this year when she was crowned the first Taiwanese winner of reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Inbound travelers could face a fine of up to US$9,000 for bringing mooncakes containing traces of pork into Taiwan.
A strict foreign pork ban has been in place since 2021 to protect the country's pork industry from the deadly African Swine Fever that has already affected many of Taiwan's neighboring countries.
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Two German warships have entered the Taiwan Strait on a freedom of navigation mission. It’s the first passage through the strait by German naval ships in over two decades.
China condemned the move, saying it would endanger China’s sovereignty and security.
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Taiwan is losing one half of its Olympic champion badminton duo.
Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin made history at the Paris Olympics this summer by becoming the first ever men’s doubles team to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal in the sport. Lee Yang had said that he intended to retire at the end of this year, and on Sunday he made good on those plans.
Lee gave a tearful goodbye at the end of the Taipei Open. He says he will continue to help spread love for badminton.
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Taiwan's military says it's grounding its entire fleet of Mirage-2000 fighter jets after one of the aircraft crashed during a training exercise. The pilot is safe, but the accident is part of a string of incidents with the old aircraft leading to a debate about whether the military should ditch the fighter jet.
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34-year-old politician Yang Chih-yuan is the first Taiwanese person to be found guilty of secession since Beijing released its new judicial guidelines for sentencing "diehard Taiwan independence separatists."
Yang was previously a member of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) until 2011 when he co-founded his own fringe party: The Taiwanese National Party. He was arrested and detained in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, in 2022 after visiting China to participate in a Go competition and was sentenced two years later for endangering national security due to his former participation in "pro-independence political activity."
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Investigators in Taiwan say they’ve put a stop to a number of Chinese shell companies attempting to gain access to the country’s most valuable trade secrets.
Now in the hands of Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau, the shell companies may see legal repercussions. However, it’s unlikely to deter China from finding new ways to exercise its influence over Taiwan.
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BREAKING: Ko Wen-je will face another arrest, after a court agreed with prosecutors who appealed his release from detention earlier this week.
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