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Taiwan reports 2 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 03:43 PM

Taiwan on Tuesday reported its first locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 since Dec. 22 - a doctor in a hospital who was treating an infected patient, and a nurse who is the doctor's girlfriend. Read more »

Taiwan's new passport hopes to banish confusion with China

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 02:45 PM

Taiwan rolled out a newly redesigned passport on Monday that gives greater prominence to the island's day-to-day name, aiming to avoid confusion with China amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Beijing's stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty. Read more »

Chinese expert says misquoted on post about Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine’s side effects - report

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 09 12:42 AM

In an interview on Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under China-based People's Daily, Tao Lina said he listed Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine side effects satirically on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, for being lengthy. Read more »

China's military showcases missiles in New Year’s Eve ‘warning for Taiwan’

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 07 12:58 PM

The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force put the spotlight on several missiles targeting “Taiwan independence-leaning forces” to mark the fifth anniversary of its founding, a warning to the self-ruled island, military experts said.   Read more »

Taiwan says Chinese jets made record 380 incursions in 2020

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 07:10 AM

Chinese jets made a record 380 incursions into Taiwan's defense zone last year, a defense official said Tuesday, as a military-linked think-tank warned tensions were now at their highest since the mid-1990s.   Read more »

Netflix review: ‘Your Name Engraved Herein’ reminds public that fight for LGBT rights is far from over

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 04 07:10 PM

The hit Taiwanese film “Your Name Engraved Herein” is a reminder that the fight for LGBT rights is far from over. Read more »

In New Year's speech, Taiwan president again reaches out to China

Ben Blanchard, Reuters
Posted at Jan 01 03:39 PM

Taiwan is ready to have "meaningful" talks with China as equals as long as they are willing to put aside confrontation, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, offering another olive branch to Beijing in her New Year's speech. Read more »

Taiwan scales back New Year events, tells people to watch at home

Reuters
Posted at Dec 31 01:19 PM

Major Taiwanese cities have scaled back New Year's Eve events and are telling people to watch fireworks and other festivities at home, after the island's first case of the highly infectious coronavirus variant originally discovered in Britain. Read more »

US warships transit Taiwan Strait for second time this month

Reuters
Posted at Dec 31 09:47 AM

Two US warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the US Navy said, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway. Read more »

Taiwan bans entry of nonresident travelers after coronavirus variant found

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 30 10:32 PM

Taiwan will suspend entry of all nonresident travelers to the island after it confirmed its first case of the possibly more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain, health authorities said on Wednesday. Read more »

Airline sacks pilot blamed for Taiwan's first local virus infection since April

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 10:57 PM

A pilot blamed for infecting two colleagues and causing Taiwan's first local coronavirus transmission since April was fired on Wednesday, his airline said. Read more »

Keep calm, Taiwan says after first local COVID-19 case in 8 months

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 23 08:09 PM

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on people on Wednesday to keep calm after the island confirmed its first locally transmitted case of COVID-19 since April 12, as the government announced negative tests so far for the person's contacts. Read more »

Taiwan reports 1st locally transmitted coronavirus case since April 12

Reuters
Updated as of Dec 22 03:24 PM

Taiwan's government on Tuesday reported its first locally transmitted case of COVID-19 since April 12. Read more »

China says aircraft carrier group on way to S.China Sea for drills

Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 12:09 PM

An aircraft carrier group led by China's newest carrier, the Shandong, has sailed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to routine drills in the South China Sea, China's navy said on Monday, after Taiwan mobilized its forces to monitor the trip. Read more »

Lights! Models! Garbage! Taiwan designer turns waste into fashion

Ann Wang, Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 09:55 AM

Inspiration for high fashion can come from strange places. For one Taiwanese designer, it's upcycling old wires and bolts from the power industry. Read more »

China says tailed US warship in Taiwan Strait

Reuters
Posted at Dec 19 08:40 PM

This is the 12th sailing through the strait by the U.S. Navy this year. Read more »

Opisyal ng Taiwan ibinahagi kung paano nila nakontrol ang pandemya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 07:29 PM

Isa ang Taiwan sa mga may pinakamababang naitalang tinamaan ng coronavirus disease.  Read more »

Magnitude-6.7 quake strikes off Taiwan's northeastern coast

Reuters
Updated as of Dec 10 11:25 PM

The quake was centered off Taiwan's northeastern coast with a depth of 77 kilometers, the country's national weather bureau said Read more »

Filipino fined P170,000 for breaking Taiwan quarantine rule for 8 seconds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 04:41 PM

The man was holed up at a hotel in the southern port city of Kaohsiung when he briefly exited his room into the hallway, according to Taiwan's state-run Central News Agency (CNA). Read more »

Taiwan says COVID-19 'passports' would be a good idea

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 02 04:23 PM

COVID-19 "passports" to show peoples' inoculation and infection history will be hard to do in practice but are a good idea, Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, offering support to a means to get global travel going again. Read more »