The earthquake has caused building collapses, landslides and caused power outages across the island.
The debate over whether to legalise same-sex marriage has divided Taiwan Taiwan's top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional.
It has never been a burning ambition of the cat-loving former law professor to be president, and she is virtually unique among East Asia's female leaders. Unlike South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and the Philippines' former President Corazon Aquino, Thailand's former PM Yingluck Shinawatra, she does not follow a father, brother or husband who was in a position of power.
Guo Su-jen, whose father was executed during political repression in Taiwan in 1952, tending her garden in Taipei.Credit...Billy H.C. Kwok for The New York Times TAIPEI, Taiwan — The month before he was executed, in April 1952, Guo Ching wrote letters to his mother, wife and children to say goodbye. The letters had only 140 miles to travel, but they would take 60 years to be delivered. When his da
An investigation has been launched into the construction of a Taiwanese apartment complex toppled by Saturday's earthquake. Most of the 34 people now confirmed to have died had been inside the Weiguan Jinlong building in Tainan City. Mayor William Lai said survivors had reported legal "violations" in the building, but gave no further details.
An earthquake has toppled buildings in the south Taiwanese city of Tainan, killing at least 11 people. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck just before 04:00 (20:00 GMT Friday) when most people were at home asleep. A baby was among at least four people killed when a high-rise building, containing 100 homes, collapsed. At least 30 people remain missing. Tainan's mayor said people were alive but trapped u
Chou Tzuyu is the only Taiwanese member of Twice, a popular Korean girl band Taiwanese voters elected their first female president on Saturday; Tsai Ing-wen. But another very different woman - a 16-year-old pop star - may have inadvertently helped Ms Tsai win votes, and is now also very much the focus of attention, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei. Chou Tzuyu, a Taiwanese singer and dancer in th
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