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Lai has pledged to “neither yield nor provoke” Beijing

Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to push for peace in the region and says future of Taiwan important to future of the world

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Lai’s election victory gave the DPP an unprecedented third term, but his room for manoeuvre is likely to be limited.

Lai Ching-te was sworn in on Monday as Taiwan's president in the face of growing Chinese military pressure and a hostile parliament. Lai succeeded Tsai Ing-wen in a ceremony closely watched by China, which claims the island as part of its territory, and the US, its key partner and weapons…

Hundreds in Taipei rallied to protest four more years under a Democratic Progressive Party administration on Sunday, the eve of Taiwan's inauguration of president-elect Lai Ching-te.

Friends and analysts say Lai’s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: China

Taiwan's president-elect Lai Ching-te, a staunch defender of the island's democracy, will be sworn into office Monday as Beijing ratchets up military and diplomatic pressure on Taipei.

For some, inaugural president Chiang Kai-shek was a liberating hero, but for others he was a brutal dictator.

A sergeant charged over the death of an Indigenous teen will argue he was just doing his job when the boy hit his unmarked police car and died.

'They decided to do what was easy and timely, not what was right.'