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Banks, businesses, oligarchs, politicians and military leaders all targeted with harsh economic penalties by Western democracies as punishment for Vladimir Putin’s actions

The prime suspect in the murder of a Thai couple in Taiwan is expected to surrender to crime suppression police in Chiang Mai province on Friday.

The elder brother of a pregnant woman slain in Taiwan has submitted fresh evidence to police investigators and accused the prime suspect of cruelly maligning his sister to justify her murder.

China's recent lockdowns to control the spread of COVID-19 have made Apple Inc iPhone assembler Pegatron Corp "emphasize" its expansion in other countries, a senior executive at the Taiwanese firm said on Wednesday. In April, Taiwan-headquartered Pegatron suspended operations at its Shanghai and Kunshan plants in China due to strict…

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry condemned organisers of the World Cup in Qatar on Wednesday for saying Taiwanese fans may be listed as being from China, and demanded organisers not allow "improper political factors" to interfere in sporting events.

The United States on Tuesday backed Taiwan's assertion that the strait dividing the island from the Chinese mainland is an international waterway, a further rebuff to Beijing's claim to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage.

According to China's government, Xi Jinping has signed off on a set of new trial outlines that allow for Chinese "armed forces operations" that aren't war, and set a legal basis for the PLA to "safeguard China's national sovereignty, security and development interests".

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February, a debate within the U.S. foreign policy community has reignited over how far Washington would go to defend Taiwan if China launched a similar assault on the island. These questions acquired a new level of urgency last month when President Joe…

TAIPEI: The Taiwan Strait is an international waterway and Taiwan's government supports U.S. warships transiting it, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, rebuffing claims from China to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage.