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Taiwan's first plum rain front of the 2026 season arrived Sunday evening, bringing much-needed precipitation across the island that is expected to continue through Wednesday morning. The Central Weather Administration (CWA) issued strong wind advisories for 14 counties as the frontal system moved across the Taiwan Strait, with
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President Lai Ching-te successfully arrived in Eswatini on May 2 for a state visit, overcoming a Chinese diplomatic blockade that had threatened to derail the trip. After Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar revoked overflight permits under Chinese pressure, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs worked intensively behind the scenes with
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The spycam scandal at Airlee Clinic (愛爾麗醫美集團), one of Taiwan's largest medical aesthetics chains, escalated Wednesday as a New Taipei court ordered the detention of president Chang Ru-shan (常如山), assistant Chang Yuan-ling (張元齡), and engineer Hsieh Jin-heng (謝金亨) on charges under the Personal Data Protection Act and Criminal
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A glass partition panel aboard a Taipei MRT Bannan Line train suddenly shattered during the morning commute on May 3, startling passengers but causing no injuries. The incident occurred while the train was in motion between stations, with commuters describing a loud cracking sound followed by the glass fracturing into
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The death of 28-year-old police officer Zheng Yongxin has ignited widespread public outrage across Taiwan after revelations emerged about the suspect's behavior following the fatal April 28 collision. Zheng was rear-ended by a 20-year-old female college student while on duty and subsequently run over by a passing tour
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Taiwan's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Wu Chih-chung issued a stark warning in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, arguing that any American abandonment of Taiwan during the anticipated Trump-Xi Jinping meeting would permanently damage U.S. credibility throughout Asia. Wu's comments come amid heightened
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A tragic incident at the Tangrong Level Crossing in Hsinchu County disrupted rail service on Sunday evening when a person was struck by a Taroko Express train. The collision occurred at approximately 6:30 PM, with emergency services responding to the scene within minutes. Approximately 600 passengers were aboard the
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A horrific drug-driving incident in Changhua County in the early hours of Monday left two people dead and two injured, triggering a wave of national outrage over Taiwan's escalating drug-impaired driving crisis. The driver, a 31-year-old man identified by his surname Kao, was behind the wheel of a
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Chen Yi-han (陳羿翰), a childcare educator who worked at two preschools in Taipei's Minsheng Community, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday after the Taiwan High Court upheld his conviction on three counts of forcible molestation of children aged three to five. The verdict closes a
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Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) on Monday unveiled an ambitious "Childcare Leave 2.0" policy that dramatically expands parental leave benefits for working families in the capital, raising subsidies to NT$200,000 per eligible household. The upgraded program, piloted in cooperation with six major enterprises including Taipei
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Taiwan's stock market shattered multiple records on Monday as the TAIEX index surged 1,778.51 points — the largest single-day point gain in the exchange's history — to close at 40,705.14, breaching the 40,000-point barrier for the first time. The broader market gain of
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Taiwan's construction industry is in the grip of a structural labor crisis so severe that all six special municipalities have been forced to extend building permit deadlines by two full years, according to an investigation by Nownews that paints a stark picture of an industry struggling to function.