Taiwan’s leaders are working on an ambitious new satellite system to keep the island online in case of disaster, as it deals with the constant threat of hostilities with China.

A Taiwanese AH-1W and OH-58D helicopter take off for the annual beach-defense drill. There are only so many ways for China to invade Taiwan. The country’s main island is mountainous and rocky on ...

Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat Taiwan’s fate will, ultimately, be decided by the battle-readiness of its people, says Alice Su ...

But on the island of 23 million people, life has continued as normal, with no overt sign of worry, the Taiwanese having gotten used to decades of living with Chinese threats.

Taiwan has condemned the latest round of Chinese military drills around the self-governing island as an “unreasonable provocation” after Beijing deployed warships and fighter jets in what it ...

TAIPEI — Most Taiwanese people were willing to defend the island against a Chinese attack but the majority believed Beijing was unlikely to invade within the next five years, a poll showed on ...

A new type of Chinese combat drone that China's state media says can carry a heavy weapons payload has flown around Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said on Friday, in the latest uptick in ...

WASHINGTON—Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen acknowledged the presence of U.S. troops on the island, describing the deployment as part of broader defense cooperation with the U.S.

For members of a Taiwanese tribe, a waste site on their island serves as a painful reminder of the government’s broken promises, and a symbol of their long struggle for greater autonomy.

Tomorrow will be the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), Chinese Nationalist (KMT) leader and Taiwan’s dictatorial president from 1950 to his death in 1975. Most of the tourists ...

Guide to the best surf conditions for Cijin Island including swell direction, wind, and tide, plus travel details like best season, water quality and parking.

Until this summer, when the idea of hiking the length of the island first occurred to me, I didn’t even know that Cijin (旗津) had been a peninsula until 1967. That’s when diggers and dredgers severed ...